Gentle Reader,
Having entered the blogging jungle with my "Gray's Gazette", I find that the creature as taken on a life of its own -- as a place for commentary on national and global issues, and for exploring the possibility of defining a new Liberalism for the 21st century.
Which is all well and good, but rather more ambitious than I had intended. As the Fabs rightly noted, we all want to change the world, but my more immediate concern is to change my native state.
Thus, this second blog, which aims directly at issues of concern within the Commonwealth of Virginia -- and particularly at educational issues, which are my greatest concern.
As with "Gray's Gazette", commentary will tend to avoid dealing with politics as a spectator sport. Rather, I will seek to follow Bobby Kennedy's trumpet-call (quoting George Bernard Shaw) : "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?' "
About Me
- 'Rick Gray
- My influences include a lawyer's bias toward traditional conservatism; a problem-solver's temperamental orientation toward change; an inherited confidence in a nation which has provided opportunity to millions and met enormous challenges in the past; and an informed awareness of how far the present generation has fallen short of that tradition. With three degrees from the University of Virginia (earned over four different decades), I'm a lifelong student, especially of history and biography. I've practiced law, served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, taught high school, and worked as a professional actor and journalist. For several years, I was full-time caregiver to my mother, in her 90s. Welcome!
