Did you see Beau Biden and his dad Joe Biden? There wasn’t a dry eye in the entire Convention Hall. Michelle was crying, Jill was crying, the delegates were crying, Members of Congress were crying, and Beau and Joe were both choking back tears. Believe your own instincts. What you saw and felt and KNEW was REAL. The pundits, and the “heads” and the haters are the illusion.
Today [August 28th, 2008] is the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther Kings’ “I Have a Dream” speech. And from that dream we will pull a new reality.
. . . on the shoulders of hundreds of thousands of decent and brave men and women of the Civil Rights Movement will stand Barack Obama. One man representing the hopes of all decent people will proclaim that AMERICA IS after all, the GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Or as my mom used to tell me, “We will get there because we live here ONLY IN AMERICA Randi. Only in America”.
Love your country when it’s right. Right it when it is wrong and the American Dream expands, widens, and deepens to include EVERY Americans’ dream.
Slowly yes, but surely if the people are good. And we are good. That’s what makes us great! ~ Randi Rhodes http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?/archives/72-Thursday,-August-28,-2008.html
. . . on the shoulders of hundreds of thousands of decent and brave men and women of the Civil Rights Movement will stand Barack Obama. One man representing the hopes of all decent people will proclaim that AMERICA IS after all, the GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Or as my mom used to tell me, “We will get there because we live here ONLY IN AMERICA Randi. Only in America”.
Love your country when it’s right. Right it when it is wrong and the American Dream expands, widens, and deepens to include EVERY Americans’ dream.
Slowly yes, but surely if the people are good. And we are good. That’s what makes us great! ~ Randi Rhodes http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?/archives/72-Thursday,-August-28,-2008.html
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Perceptions . . .
Green Visions
The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth.
(Beliefs)
Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe in
What you see
Nine to five
Living lies
Everyday
Stealing time
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can
(Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line)
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"Catharsis"
We all have suffered so much heartbreak -- through caring for our families to enduring our human family's wrath -- this breaks hearts to two parts.
We all have suffered so much heartbreak -- through caring for our families to enduring our human family's wrath -- this breaks hearts to two parts.
Truly . . . these two pieces of one heart will never re-fit because tiny bits seem lost forever. Sometimes Emily Dickinson -- lives in a room of her own choosing, savoring the beautiful moments life gives, while trying to perform the
impossible -- searching for the missing pieces.
She's not really LIVING like everyone else as she views the other through her window -- other hustling about in the thick of things. Yes, she's shut out the hustle - life's dream - America's dream - because it's too ugly or overwhelming -- THOSE demons, her demons -- THE pain, her pain -- though sour AND sweet -- it's really
"LOVE I blame!" she cries - it is in the twist - jaggedly defined: At least the two hearts keep telling her this.
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When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd
Understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am.
(Iris, by Goo Goo Dolls)
A symphonic play-out for Barack and Joe -- toward a new mythology . . . life lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6KK7NhdQU
