Free As A Bird - July 26, 2006

Today is the 53rd anniversary of the beginning of the reign of terror of the longest ruling tyrant in modern times that continues today. In the last 53 years, we've put men in space, we've landed men on the moon, we've invented handheld computers, we've eliminated polio and smallpox, we've sent rovers to Mars, we've sent probes to the end of the solar system, we've torn down the Berlin wall, we've had major advances in telecommunications, in science, in medicine, digital technology, we have hybrid cars, we have the internet, and among other things, advances in agriculture and food production. The world has changed a lot in the last half century. But some 90 miles south of Key West, Florida, the world has stayed the same. One man, an egotistical tyrant, continues to hold a nation and a people hostage to his arbitrary and whimsical rule. No need for me to repeat the obvious in one of my rants. I simply choose to leave you the image above of a laughing gull, and the words of John Lennon below:

Free as a bird,
it's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.

Home, home and dry,
like a homing bird I'll fly
as a bird on wings.

Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?

Where did we lose the touch
that seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...

Free as a bird,
like the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.

Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free.

Free as a bird.