Truth Decay

My Day
By Dr. J. Ester Davis
Esterdavis2000@gmail.com

My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. . . he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. . . he has loosed the fateful lightning of his ter-ri-ble swift sword. . . his truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat. . . he is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement seat. . . Oh be swift, my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet. . . Our God is marching on. Key words here are ‘swift sword’ and ‘sifting out’.

I started playing the piano at my home church in Conroe, Texas, Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church at age 11.

My piano days started around 5 years old, my recitals a year later. As any musician knows, you soon move from the transcribed notes to arranging or . . . compositional modulations. My summers were filled with practicing and performing, of course.  The summer of my junior recital from “Ms. Adams Piano School”, my mother decided it was time for a more advanced instructor.  So, I was moved to Jack Yates High School in Houston, to be part of a program at the University of Houston  for young musicians. I loved the instructor right away, a Santa Claus looking maestro that talked in a seduced whisper.   We called him a freelance musician, because he believed in a student’s interpretation.  He called arranging, the art of the keys, the ‘romance-of-the-reason.’  My first freelance piece was “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, which I can still play today, under my interpretative mix, but the truth of the matter is the original (by Julia Ward Howe and William Steppe) exist and does not change. Which brings me to the point of this memory.

I was not surprised that the former President of United States announced candidacy for another term.  It is a masterful chess move designed to run out the clock on the seven(7)pending “top”investigations …not to mention the 1/6 committee outcome, the number of best-selling books all about the ‘big lie’ and all the other stuff I do not have time to remind you of.   President #44, the kingpen of truth decay, world leader, image idol to many young Americans, masterful unpatriotic manipulator, was allowed unprecedented access to moral decay, unsportsmanlike conduct, language decay, character assaults, image decay, worship decay… during his presidency.  He made history after he lost the presidency, masterminding the attempt to over throw a government, ushering in the most painful ‘toothache’ heard around the world.  He was allowed to profoundly embassass our way of life thus setting a shameful example for future generations that we will pay for with our conscience.  No amount of broadcast ‘spinning’ will be able to erase it and no USDollar amount will be able to afford it. Our civil rights, the democracy that holds it …..does indeed hang in the balance.

 Be mindful that “turning back the clock” is a clear and present danger. Africans Americans will be the first to pay on the installments of “truth decay”.  So, you ask what is the solution?  One is to support the Democratic Party with your dimes and pennies.  Sure, we have only two(2)parties.  One is a “weak” party that represents the few with money..and the other is the “wealthy” party that represents the many with their voices, dimes and pennies.  As President Obama said recently, who is going to represent you?  Use your eyes to see that the legal problems that exist for President 44 do not matter …which means acceptable to that few….while Affirmation Action is under serious attack and student loan reduction is monstrously challenged. Why?  And what does that remind you of?

Common sense dictates that one tooth deteriation will affect others.  And if you do not attend to that one decay…  you will soon have a mouth full of “rot” and infection that has taken up residency in your body.  I am simply out of space and time…..