Anyone who follows their horoscope has probably heard about the “new” set of astrological signs.  The controversy continues as people’s ability to relate to their world has been thrown into chaos.  But shouldn’t everyone involved have seen this coming if it’s so predictive?  Actually, since there’s nothing new here at all, a bit of history tells us that this was a long time in coming.  Horoscopes may seem like fiction to most people, but they had their roots in the foundations of science and civilization itself.

The main difference here is that fiction, as a product of the human mind, has to make sense.  History doesn’t have such limitations.

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“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
– The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every year Dr. King’s Birthday comes around, and every year we have the same talk around the dinner table.  My kids don’t feel that in a time when a black man is President there is as much need for Dr. King – the man, the life, the struggle, the values.  Every year they want to tell me that this is their day, and they can honor Dr. King by honoring what he has done to make the world what it is, and I have to tell you I am happy for it.

But so much of what I want to tell them is what was not done, can never be, not in one man’s lifetime or in all the lifetime’s of all of us still here on this Earth.  The ongoing struggle for a society that is just and decent is eternal.

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