I was just thinking about how people are changing as the consciousness of the planet changes. It reminded me of a poem I read thirty years ago that had given me hope about where we might have been headed. Right now I think we are indeed headed in that direction. Here is the poem.

Mediums – by Walt Whitman  (1819-1892)

They shall arise in the States,

They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,
They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple,
    their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they
    shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of
    Chicago the great city.
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and
    oratresses,
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of
    poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,
Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey’d in gospels,
    trees, animals, waters, shall be convey’d,
Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey’d.