More Power to Ya

"Water Going Over a Cliff"by Drew John Tankersley

 Happy sez-  I sometimes watch the Andy Griffith Show, an old TV show set in the mythical town of Mayberry, North Carolina.  I once lived in North Carolina away back up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in a little hamlet called
Busick between the towns of Burnsville and Spruce Pine, both of which could have been the pattern for Mayberry, but it was the wonderful and extraordinary people of the region along with the almost magical beauty of the land that made the region a true gift for all that had the privilege to live there.
On some of the episodes a musical hill family, the Darlings, comes to town played by Denver Pyle, The Dillards and Maggie Petterson. The Dillards and Maggie Peterson are extremely talented bluegrass musicians, song writers and  singers that help keep alive that wonderful and rich cultural heritage.  Denver Pyle playing the patriarch of the family, Briscoe Darling, a wise and pragmatic man whose favorite saying about and to his fellow man is "more power to ya".  When someone embarks on a venture that Briscoe may not approve of or is skeptical of, he will tilt his head askance, look them in the eye and tell them more power to ya giving his fellow man the freedom and respect of the individual.  Somehow that has become lost, for people were more respectful of each other and gave each other the freedom that came from the respect of the individual, not the binding conformity of a politically correct society.  To be sure every time, every culture and every place has it's problems and no society as no individual is perfect, but it's what we aspire to, who we strive and work to become that say who we are, both as individuals and as a society.  If we want to live in a good society, a just society, a honest society then we must be those things that we want to become, and we must be those things as ourselves, as individuals.  More power to ya.

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