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01/20/2009

I didn’t watch the inauguration, not the parade, not the ball, none of it.  I listened to the swearing in ceremony yesterday.  today I’ve looked at a few pics. . .
looking at this  image puts me in a state of quiet.  the sheer magnitude of people is what touches me the most, I can feel [...]

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starting off

my day started with India.Arie singing of Hope, and there are two little beautiful faces showing me how much they’ve truly grown.  eight years ago I had a bad feeling about things and hoped that it would only last half as long.  oh well.  today I got to tell the two (one of which who [...]

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the polls are open, the polls are open!!!

6:00 AM the polls opened and I was there with 20 people in front of me, really 21 but one of them still in diapers and many more following.  at 4:48 I got a text message from a friend saying that they were in line and urging everyone in their phone to vote, I only [...]

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darkness fell upon us

it’s that time of year again, time to fall back. year sure you get to “sleep in” an hour but you also have to stay up late until your body catches up. and at 4 o’clock everything in you in convinced that it is time to go home but there is still another [...]

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no tricks, just treats

after starting the week so cold I needed to go out and buy new winter coats, halloween arrived to “warm” autumn weather.  more than once the phrase was heard “it’s almost like spring”.  really it was a gorgeous day and it was a friday . . . so why were there so few tricker treaters?  [...]

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