"You know Molly, I've come to find that it is impossible to always be both effective and ideologically pure."
-A smart professor of mine, delivering sad news on 11/21/08

Dear Mr. President-Elect

"In the name of life, of change, let us listen to one another and make the effort to find a way to create harmony between our peoples and life. Let us create the conditions for new History. One where the sacred ends of promotion and protection of Life and Beauty can never again be transformed into means for private accumulation of power at the service of greed."

New Day

Just flying in my airplane looking out the window

An excerpt from the email I received from my older sister, who teaches 1st grade.

I had one boy who all day kept calling him oback obama. no matter how hard he tried or who reminded him, he just kept calling him oback. but that is who he really wants to win. :)

Ahh, life in first grade. we wrote about what we would do as president. here are a few for you...

If I was President, I would:
keep people safe
save people from floods and tornadoes
fly in my airplane and look out the window
have a sleepover with people at the white house
be a helper
save the endangered animals
clean up the environment
buy everyone a new car
play bowling all day (we read that there is a bowling alley in the white house)
keep people healthy by giving them bandaids

and one who told me he would keep everyone safe by shooting down the evil villans. when i asked who the evil villains were, he said, "You know the ones from other planets"

Go OBACK! ;)

A Poem for the Young Voter

Don't be the ONE