Whitman wrote that democracy in America was still sleeping. Here in Minnesota we are slowly waking from the winter into spring. There are signs: that single robin, a large flock of tundra swans, tips of green flowers poking through last year's dismal grass, slack-liners in front of the Commons. While it is the case that the news from North Africa reminds us of the democracy we tend to take for granted; it is also true that the rising of the sap in the maples and the longer sunlight remind us of our part in it and urge us out of slumber into participation.
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