Ronald Reagan(1911-2004) was a busy fellow from the beginning of the Baha’i teaching Plan in 1937.  He moved to Los Angeles that year and had a screen test with Warner Bros, a test which led to his first, his seven year contract lasting to the end of that Plan.  

His first screen credit was the starring role in the 1937 movie Love is on the Air released five months after the start of that Seven Year Plan.  In the first two years of that Plan, 1937 to 1939, Reagan appeared in 19 films.  I won’t outline Reagan’s entire life until his death in 2004 at the age of 93, but I will highlight some of the events using a type of synchronicity with which those who read my prose-poetry are familiar. -Ron Price with thanks to (1)Wikipedia and (2) SBS1 TV, 27 March 2011, 9:30-11:30 p.m.

You switched political allegiances
in ’62 the same year that I began(1)
my travelling-pioneering for the
Canadian Baha’i community, and
you became Governor of California
the year I went to Baffin Island: ’67.

By the time you tried for the Presidency
that second time in ’76 I was in Ballarat
at the University in a teaching career far
beyond my adolescent-young adult hopes.

You finally arrived in that Presidency in ’80—
the same year that my bipolar disorder was
stabilized and there you stayed until my job
at the Swan College of Technical & Further
Education began in ’89: with the Berlin Wall
about to crumble unbeknownst to all those
Kremlinologists: or so I have been informed.(2)

Your last 10 years, Ron, dealing as they did
with Alzheimer’s, as I was heading for a sea-
change in ’99, and the end of my teaching by
2004 when you died…..were sad ones hardly
recognizing anyone in the end…..It all came
and went so fast, eh?....Me, too, Ron; it has
all been so fast……You became President at
69.   Perhaps my greatest achievements are
still ahead of me, too, Ron.    I wish you well,
Ron, in that land of lights…...that mysterious
place, the daybreak of one’s hopes……where
one makes a final political switch to the True
Party of the People: object of endless grace?(3)

1 Reagan changed at the age of 51 from Democrat to Republican which he remained for the rest of his life.
2  I have been given to understand, although I cannot recall the source, the reference, that no expert in the study of modern Russia predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall.
3  Abdul-Baha, Memorials of the Faithful, Baha’i Pub. Trust, 1975(1928), p.172.
Ron Price
28 March 2011