THIRTY-SEVEN
"Todd absolutely loved children..."
On p. 37 of Going Rogue Sarah continues her discussion of herself and of her love, Todd. She says:
"Neither of us was into heavy-duty materialism. We weren't into fancy food, fancy clothes, fancy anything. He was very practical: he bought his car because he needed transportation; he bought his truck to haul his snowmachines."
And, further on down the page:
"I admired Todd's great reverence for his elders, especially his wise grandparents. At the time, I felt I barely knew my grandparents, and I envied his Native culture, which taught him to know well and honor those who had helped raise him. I learned from Todd that Native youth are taught to listen and learn from their elders and not to run their mouths.
"Todd absolutely loved children. He had a cousin with Down syndrome whom he cherished, and even with all my babysitting jobs I had no experience with children with special needs. I always wondered how I'd handle someday meeting this special relative."
Ah, what treasures of wisdom, I believe, are painted for the canvas and contours and corners of our minds and souls in these few words!! I wish every boy and girl in America could read and use Sarah's book as a primer and textbook and source of inspiration for American ideals!!
To keep this post within some bounds, I am going to have to limit what I might say if I were speaking to you all right now viva voce, with the living voice!
First, please note the perfect "compass" of right relationships that the great American, Todd Palin, manifests here, if I may use this image. What I mean is that to North (ancestors; forebears), to South (children) to East and West (contemporary things and people) he strikes and holds the perfect equipoise and equilibrium of justice and charity.
Let us examine each of these breviter paucisque verbis, "briefly, and in a few words."
Material things we must have and use. After all, we are not angels; of body and soul are we formed and made and composed. However, the abuse of material things is aptly expressed in an "-ism," "materialism." Proper use of res materiales, material things, is one thing; misuse of them is another. It all has to do with the "teleology" of the matter, that is the intention, the purpose, the end, the "telos" (Greek) with which we employ them.
Sarah's Todd here is described as using the things of this earth in a proper and sane way. He has his car, not for vain display, but to get him from place to place. His truck he possesses to transport his snowmachines!! Same thing with food and clothes: Food is to nourish; clothes are to cover and provide warmth!! Thus, the "East and West" of the sound and true "compass" of Sarah and of her Todd!!
The "North": Todd reverences and receives wisdom, just as he first received life itself, from his parents and grandparents. This is the eternal order of "Nature and Nature's God." Note the perversity and insanity of our current corrupt age, that would "teach" ("anti-teach" would be a better term) youngsters to hate and ignore and despise their elders!!!
The "South": Todd "loved children." Need I say more?!?
Quae ipse a maioribus recepit accepitque, eadem ad posteros tradit transmittitque.
"Those things which he himself hath received and accepted from his ancestors, the same he hands on and transmits to his descendants."
Again, note the perversity of this age, which would have parents selfishly focus on themselves and on their own vanities and "self-fulfillment," rather than on the raising of, the education of--indeed, the love for-- their kids.
The aim of our enemies, in brief, is to overthrow and cut off the TRADITIO AMERICAE, literally, "the handing on/transmission of America," that is, the passing on to the next generation of what it means to be an American, of the Idea of America (cf. Sarah's mighty and immortal speech on this theme, given and pronounced at CSU Stanislaus in Turlock, California in the hearing of this witness on 25 June of this year).
Guys, so much more could be said about these words of our Sarah. Let this suffice.
This is America's Finest Couple; America's First Couple!!!
Let us draw the STEEL of the sword of the intellect and of the spirit, and fight to the end for Sarah and for Todd and for America!
Let us love them!!!
LONG LIVE SARAHAMERICA!!!
