It's another early morning for me, just afte 4:30 am. I woke up about 10 minutes ago and knew immediately it was another one of those days...for whatever reason, I was awake and would be unable to go back to sleep. So, coffee is brewing and soon all will be well with the world.
As I do most mornings, I checked into the news when I got to my computer and saw that the predictions of the daughter of a friend I've never met came to pass. Time Magazine has named You as the person of the year. She mentioned this two days ago on her blog. And the emergence of her prediction happened right here in Dallas, on a layover at DFW airport, on their way back to England.
I'd like to think Time's assessment of our collective ability to change the world in a positive way is a good thing. It is, provided we don't blow it. Some of us who share philosophies and spout ideas about politics and preach about social justic and create videos and record music and do all the other things that the internet enables us to do are making a difference; no question about it. Others of us might as well be locked deep in a cave, screaming at the walls, for all the impact we have. The brief blurb about Time's selection that appeared on CNN (linked above), gets at the hear of it; the web gives us the collective ability to make a difference. We won't make a difference unless we work together to give our ideas legs and unless we give legs to the ideas of others.
Let's give each others' good ideas legs.
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