I’m slowly emerging from the recent funk that pervaded my neuro-chemistry, but in this particular recording, the Del Norris Venngina quartet, I was both swimming in pessimism and, given the nature of things, ready for insights that would usher me out of the dark and toward the light.

Jason asked me, “What are the three critical attributes you’re looking for in a President?”

And it absolutely stumped me.

I didn’t know.

And this morning, as I sit here typing these words, I still don’t know how to answer.

For as informed a citizen as I promote myself, I am woefully underinformed.

For as confident as I spout opinion after opinion into the mediasphere, I am drowning in insecurity.

For as much as I yap about learning and listening, I am still yapping.

An underinformed, insecure, blow-hard…is not what I want to be.

So, I’ll keep having these conversations and grinding away at the burrs, blemishes, and inconsistencies.

Join us, won’t you?  We present to you, “Entering the Venngina (Del Norris 2.2).”

Music by the incomparable Patsy Cline.