Thread by @ThyConsigliori

I was able to view the entire conference will offer just a few thoughts below.

General Flynn Press Conference Patriot Round Up Dallas Texas via @YouTube

2) I had intended to take careful notes and write up a thorough report. I rapidly jettisoned that intention and just watched. And the one thing that kept reverberating for me was that there is no other such voice in America. Contemplate that.

3) Adversity has hardened our General, the refiner's fire has cleansed the weaknesses, the resulting iron is both stiff and supple. Supple to take a fine edge, sharp as can be. Stiff to be strong and to cut through clean and quick.

4) Adversity has clarified all of General Flynn's beliefs, definitions, and his line of thinking about self, others, America and Her destiny. It was amazing to witness. You don't need me to walk you through his points. He walks us all through them and that is sufficient.

5) As to his points the two that linger in my mind and heart are these:

1) Local action has national impact.
2) Song, Poetry, and Story, these three.

I will speak to both.

6) I have never enjoyed a national platform. But I have served those who do. That service is sufficient for me. Well, I'd like to do more of it. But, I don't need to have the platform as long as I'm able to serve those who do.

7) It is, however, still surprising to me that I have a natural bent to national level analysis. For all that, I am discovering that state and local analysis while not as readily natural are arts and disciplines I am thrilled to learn and employ.

8) General Flynn's statement that we ALL have a local platform is one I will quote again and again. As my own dream turns, I seek to have those with such platforms to serve. I know I have my own platform too, but if I can, my platform will be to serve others on theirs.

9) General Flynn and I have not discussed poetry much. We have discussed both music and story, and far more than those, we have discussed analysis itself. I'd add that as a fourth item to the list. Perhaps, though, it is rightly included just in those three, within them.

10) What is your song, and what the song of your America? Do you have a poem to write? What is your favorite poem? I'll share mine in a moment. What is your story and as General Flynn asks us to do, what is your story of America to tell?

11) I am currently studying Matthew chapters 5 & 10. Ephesians 6 has been a lifelong study. Psalm 91 is pure magic in words. 1 Kings 19 and the still small voice is a poem each of us should meet and confront. The entire Book of Genesis, absolutely. But...

12) To my soul, the greatest poem ever written was by John Donne, and is called La Corona. It is not just one poem but rather a cycle of 7 interconnected sonnets. This interconnection is something I've never observed elsewhere in any other work.

13) I discovered this poem at age 20, and read it in a redwood grove in Northern California for the first time. 40 years later I still read and study it regularly. I offer it here for your consideration and blessing.

luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne…

14) I say, let us be worthy students of General Flynn's. Let us embrace our own local action for national impact. And let us find the song, poetry, and story of our duty locally. Does your town have a song? Does it have a poet laureate? Who tells its story?

15) Once upon a time, a man named De Tocqueville told the story of Democracy in America. Before that, his forebear Tom Paine told the story of Tyranny in America. Interesting, isn't it? What is the story of Freedom in Charlottesville where I live? It's on me to find out.

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