[poconopundit]

Great, pax.  Very inspiring to hear your personal encounter with Trump.  Glad to hear your first positive impressions were confirmed.

I suppose we've been fooled so many times by politicians and other people that it takes a long time to build true trust. Emerson was fascinated by this human need to look people in the eye...

Eyes are bold as lions, -- roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near.  They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction.  What breadth of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another, through them!  The glance is natural magic.  The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.  You can read in the eyes of your companion, whether your argument hits him, though his tongue will not confess it.

Each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it.  A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.  Whoever looked on him would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.  The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Wealth from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)

[pax_et_bonum]

Thanks for your response.

Eloquent and insightful quote from Emerson.

:-)