Early Morning Meanderings

As soon as they welcome you to the whole, the parts start claiming you. This is really interesting for so early in the morning. Does anyone ever bowl alone? Why do we have to join something? Take sides? When are we ever really neutral? Have you ever read "Democracy In America" by Alexis de Tocqueville. Is it regretful that I haven't, maybe even un-American? I have heard it often referred to and quoted but I have never read it, actually held the book in my own hands. We'll save that for 2016.