Today's news is filled with reporting on the speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu's speech before a joint session of Congress is certainly the most controversial speech by a foreign head of state while on American soil in many decades, ... perhaps ever. However, regardless of what one thinks about Netanyahu or his speech, I think we all can be thankful for his quoting that guy who's name graces the library of our alma mater and, perhaps, it is fitting that we recall the actual poem today to ponder which path in the fork of the road that we all took ... along with the path that our nation has taken as well.
Peace,
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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