remember our sons
grandsons going to do things
that would stagger us …
Make no little plans.
They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Think big.
Sitting on the cusp?
Standing on the cusp?
Waiting for the 2nd era of Presidential Administration that defies comprehension.
In the ‘Baseball Speech’ in the movie, Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones has the line:
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.
We all listen and we nod and say yes, thats true.
But that army of steamrollers, that army of erasers, come with an eye on the future.
A look to rebuild better.
A plan to move forward.
We sit at the start of another 4 year effort to turn back the clock.
No vaccines.
No education.
No progress.
Go back.
They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
It will be rough.
I hope we survive.
I think of my grandchilden.
The ones who will rebuild this country.
I hope they will stagger us with what they do.
I am making no small plans.
My watchword be order.
My beacon beauty.
Thinking BIG and hoping for the best.
- The quote is from architect Daniel Burnham, the man who rebuild Chicago. According to wikipedia, “A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been “the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced.” A successful Chicago architect, he was selected as Director of Works for the 1892–93 World’s Columbian Exposition, colloquially referred to as “The White City”. He had prominent roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the Plan of Chicago, and plans for Manila, Baguio and downtown Washington, D.C. He also designed several famous buildings, including a number of notable skyscrapers in Chicago, the Flatiron Building of triangular shape in New York City, Washington Union Station in Washington D.C., London’s Selfridges department store, and San Francisco’s Merchants Exchange.”
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