Today in 1945, reggae legend BobMarley was born in Jamaica. A devout Rastafarian and proclaimer of human rights, his music popularized the genre of reggae as well as the faith of Rastafarianism. He is known today as the most iconic reggae musician in the world.
A Quote that fits for Mr. Marley's Birthday: "Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love."
-Doris Haddock
I blog a lot...it seems to have become the way I save little things that I find important. So, I kinda blog for me, which might be selfish, but it is like the journal I don't have the real diligence to keep. And I like to share :)
Currently listening: Skin and Bones By Foo Fighters Release date: 2006-11-07
A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other's eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.
All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues.
Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere, with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus. A farmer considers the changing sky. A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.
We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed, words to consider, reconsider.
We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of some one and then others, who said I need to see what's on the other side.
I know there's something better down the road. We need to find a place where we are safe. We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
Say it plain: that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,
picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.
Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign, the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.
Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?
Love beyond marital, filial, national, love that casts a widening pool of light, love with no need to pre-empt grievance.
In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, any thing can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,
praise song for walking forward in that light.
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The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Opening Inaugural Event Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC January 18, 2009 Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God’s blessing upon our nation and our next president. O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will… Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS. Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic “answers” we’ve preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future. Bless us with patience – and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be “fixed” anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah. Bless us with humility – open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world. Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance – replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger. Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion’s God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world. And God, we give you thanks for your child Barack, as he assumes the office of President of the United States. Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln’s reconciling leadership style, President Kennedy’s ability to enlist our best efforts, and Dr. King’s dream of a nation for ALL the people. Give him a quiet heart, for our Ship of State needs a steady, calm captain in these times. Give him stirring words, for we will need to be inspired and motivated to make the personal and common sacrifices necessary to facing the challenges ahead. Make him color-blind, reminding him of his own words that under his leadership, there will be neither red nor blue states, but the United States. Help him remember his own oppression as a minority, drawing on that experience of discrimination, that he might seek to change the lives of those who are still its victims. Give him the strength to find family time and privacy, and help him remember that even though he is president, a father only gets one shot at his daughters’ childhoods. And please, God, keep him safe. We know we ask too much of our presidents, and we’re asking FAR too much of this one. We know the risk he and his wife are taking for all of us, and we implore you, O good and great God, to keep him safe. Hold him in the palm of your hand – that he might do the work we have called him to do, that he might find joy in this impossible calling, and that in the end, he might lead us as a nation to a place of integrity, prosperity and peace. AMEN.
This blog is cut and pasted from my facebook. I felt the need to share my 25 Random things with you lovely people (and Shannon also said "I am never on Facebook,so put it on your MySpace so I can read it!") so here it is:
Rules: Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to "note" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
1. I am a nerd and hoped I would be tagged. Thanks Sarah! :)
2. I wish I was at Whitworth for spring semester. Finished graduation requirements are a double edged sword.
3. I'm trying to write 30,000 word this month. It is my late NANOWRIMO.
4. I have no idea where I want to go to grad school even though I have four applications out. I want to be adventurous, but part of me also just wants to write in my little spokane house and raise kids.
5. I take pride in being a feminist and it causes some cultural and personal conflicts for me (see above).
6.I could eat sushi everyday.
7. I partied a lot in 2008. I think i was making up for my lost early twenties. I think I am done now. It feels out of my system.
8. I want to like turkish delight but I don't.
9. I want to do Slam Poetry. But I am a chicken.
10. I want to have a non-working farm someday with goats, chickens and a huge garden that I may sell vegetables from at a farmers market.
11. I wish I had been twenty-something in the 1950s.
12. I don't like jeans.
13. I love ashtanga yoga.
14. I actually do think that Disneyland is one of the happiest places on earth.
15. I fear and love Paris. It is everything I ever dreamed of AND MORE. I had dreams of teaching english in France for about three months. Scratch that...I still do.
16. I have had very few life goals and at twenty-eight I have achieved half of them (going to London, buying a house, marriage, kids). The ones that seem most prominiently left are a house with one more bedroom and one more child. And visit Ireland. oh, and the farm.
17. I never thought I would see the change Barak Obama has brought to our country in my lifetime. I believe I now live in a post-racist America. This is because any racists left are sad and in a huge minority and are like neo-nazis...Not taken seroiusly and historically obsolete.
18. I hated all of high school axcept for my Junior Year. That one was great.
19. My favorite body part is my wrists.
20. I got married at "The Hitching Post" in Coeur d'Alene. So did my parents.
21. I used to be in a band called "The Honeybuckets".
22. I wish I had taken advanced writer's workshop
22. My filmmaking bug has been reactivated (it has been sleeping since 2000) by Dr. Fred Johnson's Digital Storytelling class that I took during Jan Term.
23. I had three best friends in the time between grade school and High school. None of them liked each other. I found it strange, because they were all fabulous and still are.
24. I had no idea that Hannah Montana and Miley Cirus were the same person till this summer when I asked my highly amused younger siblings on a road trip.
25. I was published at a online journal called Tulip in January. It made me feel that there was hope in what I have been dedicating my life to for the past three years.
http://frugalhacks.com/2008/05/30/hot-dog-buns/ Dinner Tonight- Cheese Strata 2 1/2 c. shredded cheese 6 eggs, slightly beaten 2 c. milk 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. dry mustard Garlic to taste Spread a layer of hot dog buns (break them up into chunks if you like, and you can use any bread) in the bottom of a grease 9X13 pan.
Currently listening: Unglamorous By Lori McKenna Release date: 2007-08-14
Current mood: thoughtful Category: Web, HTML, Tech
I put up a website that currently houses my final project for Digital Storytelling. I am going to be working on it this week since I am now done at Whitworth and need to get on my "Writer-ly" practices. Check it out if you wish.
http://www.wix.com/ffiredoor5/Jennifer-McIntyre
Currently listening: The Con By Tegan and Sara Release date: 2007-07-24
Today is Inauguration Day in the United States. The tradition of investing the President on this day dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in 1937. Festivities marking the swearing-in of Barack Obama as the 44th president were scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the west front of the U.S. Capitol. The official inaugural site noted that, for the first time ever, the length of the National Mall would be open to those wishing to attend the swearing-in ceremony.
A quote that fits this historic and hope-filled occasion:
"Allmoments of turning around, of lettinggo, of forgiveness are moments of pilgrimage, which take us from our hard-hearted ways to a land we have not yet known." -Brenda Shoshanna
On an unrelated note, "Birds of America" was a fabulous movie. Watch it.
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