Searching for Wisdom

From our service at church today, a few lines from Solomon. (6: 17-20)

"The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction,
and concern for instruction is love of her,
and love of her is the keeping of her laws,
and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality,
and immortality brings one near to God;
so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom."

This really spoke to me since it is the thing I claim on the 'About me' heading on the left hand side of this blog, 'searching for wisdom'. And one of my oldest loves as an adult is Philosophy, the love of wisdom.

I'm searching for something else too. I want to like Obama. I know the problem is with me and not him. I'm still sulking over his camp's appalling treatment of Hillary Clinton, that and...well, I simply don't find him likeable. He doesn't seem like a Statesman to me. I know, broken record. But I'm working on it.

I told Austen about this during my weekly phonecall. He suggested that perhaps I didn't really GET the full impact of what it means that America has elected a black person to be their President. He told me to think about an equivalent situation in Britain. Britain has already broken the barrier to women being elected, and as I have said before, were I any kind of a Tory, I would consider Thatcher to be a goddess. And maybe in Britain we don't view black people the same way as they are viewed in the States, so that it doesn't seem like such a big deal.
'But think about what a huge deal it would be if Britain elected an Asian PM,' he said. And he was right. The idea of having a Patel or Singh/Kaur at number ten, and yes, I think he's right, THAT would be huge.

In Brighton, Ben met one of his heroes, Lemmy from Motorhead. It's pretty cool to meet a hero, a legend. Alex met Mark Wahlberg once, and got his autograph, but then in a freak, recycling accident, she lost it and it is a testament to her ability to forgive, that she has done.