October 22, 2015
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The Road to 65, Mile 328: Deferred
October 21, 2015, Chino Valley- The Chicago Cubs came further than they have, in over a century. Then they ran into the buzzsaw that is New York City’s professional teams. It takes time, patience and an indomitable will, to beat a team from the Big Apple. My Red Sox know that, better than anyone. The Sox are on hiatus, but they will come back. Then again, the Yankees are taking a break, too.
The Cubs remain the only team to have waited more than a century to reach even the secondary level of the championship ladder, but they will be at the top, within three years. It takes time, patience and an indomitable will, to overcome the entrenched and powerful.
The voices of the common people, many of whom have not been heard for centuries, are at long last being heard. Some of what they say is a message of frustration. It does not ring of justice- when it is voiced by the ignorant, the self-centered, the blinkered- and the opportunistic, who pretend to speak for the dispossessed. The voices of the common people must all be heard, though, lest those denied a voice end up “stinking like rotten meat”, the way Islamic State is now, the way the Nazis did, in the middle of the last century.
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?”- Langston Hughes
Comments (4)
Dreams never die, just the dreamer? Seems sad. Sometimes the people who say they speak for the common people are just coveting power.
They already have their diamond rings and limos and private planes. Sometimes only a higher power can get people out of those entrenched ones. So we wait with honor and patience and run the race we have in front of us. 
The Cubs are perennial underdogs - I'm sure my grandfather is in heaven and still waiting for a World Series Champion Cubs team. Those who have nothing eventually rise up and there is change. I hope this next tidal wave will be less destructive than in the past...
I have hopes for them next year.
@mcbery: @murisopsis: @ZSA_MD: There is always hope for anyone who tries. Ironically, I read the comments just after reading of Hurricane Patricia being less destructive than feared.
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