"Principles above Personalities"
Late in the day, Godfrey stepped away from work and into the cool of the pub. He didn’t come often to the pub and seldom alone. Today was different. He needed the quiet of a booth where he could eat his early supper in peace. His job at the brokerage firm had been on high all week. Frantic clients wanting answers in a horrendous political climate change. Answers he didn’t have. Only guesses after an extremely unpredictable and volatile week. Godfrey rubbed his furrowed forehead. He ordered steak and mashed potatoes but when it arrived he didn’t think he’d be able to eat. The weather was on the TV over the bar. High winds were predicted. No rain, just wind. Godfrey hoped the winds would blow away all the uncertainty filling everyone’s lives.
In the middle of city life, it is hard for winds to find everyone. Fickle winds whip around corners and down city streets. Godfrey picked at his food. He sighed. He remembered hearing a saying ~ he couldn’t remember from whom or when….‘Principles above personalities’. Maybe that was the wind needed to deal with this strange change settling like a heavy cloud over the country. The personalities on the political scene had too much flash and glitter, their true principles lost in the image. He would live his own principles...keep alert for his own beliefs. The steak finally tasted good. Butter and sour cream melted into the mashed potatoes. It was a delicious meal, his appetite ready to be fed.
“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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