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now i can exhale
When I first read the title of terry mcmillan’s Waiting to Exhale I thought to myself, “Oh I get it – in a woman’s life there are so many pressures that she always feels as if she at the edge of the precipe, holding her breath, waiting for that opportunity to step back, to rest down her many burdens and simply – exhale. I get it.”
In truth, I never did. Really get it that is. Until Wednesday when I watched Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech.
I exhaled. Continue reading
a more perfect union
text of speech released to media available here
Jaxon (one month)
Enjoy (Nico thanks for the pictures!)
Sorry about the sound! if you want a higher quality version (Quick Time) click here
Jaxon Elijah Bethel
For the three of you that actually follow this blog, I apologise for not keeping it updated in the last month – I had a few pressing matters to attend to.
My wife, Tasha gave birth to Jaxon Elijah Bethel at 11:37pm on Saturday, 16 June 2007 (just in time for Father’s Day!) Both Mum and baby are well. Thanks for all the support and interest over the past nine months.
a more perfect union (cont’d)
It’s a shame really, that Barack Obama gave that speech when he did. Because as powerful, deep, and truly important as it was, because it was in the middle of the presidential campaign, because it was (apparently) in response to the firestorm created by Obama’s close friendship with the controversial Rev’d Wright, pundits and election watchers, listened, were moved briefly, decided whether the controversy was put to rest, then moved on to the next juicy tidbit from the campaign trail. Pearls before swine perhaps.
This speech is important in so many ways. Ironically, though pundits have characterised Obama’s relationship with Rev’d Wright as a dangerous liability, it it only because of this friendship that Obama was able to get away with saying some of the things that he did. Continue reading →