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This is another
one about progress.

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Both raising the question
whether it's an illusion

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or not.

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Is it an illusion in history?

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Hegel says that history is an
account of the slow unfolding

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of "Geist" spirit.

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Is that true?

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And in one's own life, we
like to think of ourselves

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as moving from stage A to
stage B, but is that true?

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"Unfolding."

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If there is no spirit
unfolding itself in history,

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no gradual growth of
consciousness beneath the land

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grabs and forced migrations, the
bought elections, the betrayal

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of trust by party faction in
the name of progress, what

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about spirit in
the personal realm?

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Unfolding slowly inside us,
so slowly that our best days

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seem like a holding action.

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Season's repeat themselves,
but the tree shading the yard

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keeps growing.

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Don't be chagrined
at the sadness

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you felt this evening
beside the bed

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of a friend whose
strength is ebbing.

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Was it more profound than
the sadness of yesterday?

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That you still can't
imagine a fraction

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of what he's
feeling as the world

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he loves slips from his grasp.

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No progress from
your perspective,

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but who's to say
what you might notice

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if the scroll of
the last few months

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were unrolled on the table
before you, how clear it might

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be that your understanding
of all you're

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losing and losing him has
been slowly deepening.

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Another day, you say
to yourself at dusk

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as you climb your
porch steps, which

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you notice could use some
scraping and painting

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this weekend, a fresh coat that
with luck will last a year.

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