Tonight in his acceptance speech as the Democratic candidate for president of the USA, Barack Obama was very specific in what he is promising to do. However, no matter what he said the other party will still paint him as wanting higher taxes for the middle class and as not fit as Commander In Chief. Words, no matter how eloquent, seem to mean little today in our present society. This was not true 45 years ago today when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream speech”. For those who had ears to hear there was a real message of hope and change. Perhaps this is true for Americans tonight with the words of Barack Obama. We will need to wait and see. However, I had to admit even a person hardened by politics to believe that no President will mean much change, there was some excitement and hope tonight.

But I did feel more hope today when I was working in the gardens, rain garden in front and vegetable and herb gardens in back. This hope in growing new life was not so much in words as it in the ground. I felt the salad green seeds I planted in enriched soil would grow and saw with hope all the many worms scrambling to go through the screen into the fresh compost. This is change I can see, feel and touch. My hope is that this is true with the promise of change I heard tonight.

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