Miracles... Eventually

A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog about the then new Annie Lennox album "Songs of Mass Destruction." In that blog I mentioned the campaign that she had helped to launch to more fully address AIDS issues in South Africa, and the song that was created as that campaign's theme song.

Despite years of benighted thinking and little action (not too terribly different from the actions of Ronald Reagan's administration twenty years ago), last week a miracle occurred when recently appointed health minister, Barbara Hogan turned South African AIDS policy off it's head and right side up.

Ms. Hogan, who as a South African white woman joined the African National Congress 30 years ago, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and has stood up for truth on both sides of the South African color barrier, is someone who shows what it means to be truthful, intentional, and human under some of the most frustrating, discouraging, and inhuman of circumstances.

This is where the world CAN go... Stories like these prove that, despite numbskulls everywhere, humans ARE EVOLVING... WE ARE getting better.