I choose to see. I love and breath attempting to discern truth. Whether that truth be good for me or bad, I will always rather speak it and hear it, no matter the consequence or personal loss. My family will attest to this. Raising my children to learn that truth is more important than ANY other thing in life is one of my most proud achievements. So those of you who have found me morose over the last couple of weeks and have asked what is wrong it is this: the inability for our citizens to see the truth or even care about it much less act on it has broken me. I feel that last night's embellishments, I am trying to be kind, in the SOTU tipped all of us who seek truth, who chose to see, over the edge. A woman who happens to be speaker of the house and has held her composure through so many non-truths over the last few years, let us see her true feelings last night in one simple gesture.
Well, I found compassion in that gesture. Compassion for those of us who have suffered through the lies. Those of us who have had to bite our tongues at work and church. Those of us who did research and spent hours finding ways to prove the truth, only to have "beliefs" or excuses thrown back at us as an excuse for being too lazy to seek their own truth or content to be ignorant ( or "Cornuto content") find great comfort in Speaker Palosi's emotional gesture. It hurt no one. It spoke volumes in a very quiet way.
So to you, madam Speaker, I give great thanks and want you to know it gave those of us in the trenches a renewed hope to continue to choose to see.
Let the truth set you free
