A Pioneer's hopes

THE EMPTY HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD-They say the Lincoln's lived in this house the Greek Rival for 17yrs.When President-elect Lincoln left for the White House in 1861 he never returned to it and I'm not sure if Mary Todd and her sons did,but I can only imagine those visiting the home today are thinking of the man this state of Illinois refers itself to as "The Land of Lincoln."But how empty it must be. We honor Lincoln in our words but not enough in our duties.We honor his honesty but yet we live in dishonesty.We never bind up the wounds,we only keep adding to them.We keep dividing the house far enough where fear of it collapsing might be inevitable surrounds us.The taxes always increases but never decreases.Oh yes,how empty it is in that house in Springfield. While some Illinois citizens are packing and leaving,stubborn men in Springfield stay firm to their grasp of power.It reveals their true character.They build a wall around the city and declare it a sanctu

MARTIN WAS A DRUM MAJOR-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr was a servant who loved humanity,who was a drum major for justice,who beat to the heart of peace for our fellow man and taught us to do the same.He served with righteous cause and God was his light for his path in a valley of darkness of racism and hate.He was a voice shouting in the wilderness preaching love not hate while hate was throwing rocks at him and those that walked with him.They simply kneeled and prayed. But the difference between our civil rights leaders today and then is a political agenda.Not a human one.An agenda to divide and conquer and not a path of love and unity.A drum major is about truth,love and justice not hate,violence and despair as Dr.King was dealing with.Todays leaders have an agenda not a drum beat and the agenda is corrupt and not honest.They are caught up in special interests of money and power.Martin had only one special interest-love and equality for all. It is bad when nations go to war,it&#