Shake It Up

Wouldn’t it have been fun if Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell had wanted to be in the race for President as well? Wouldn’t that have just kicked things up? A white female Democrat candidate, a black male Democrat, a black Republican, and a black female Republican.

Regardless of whether it would have actually been good for the country or not, man, it would have been fun to watch!

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Coming to the Surface

I was reading through a couple of blogs today which I thought I was enjoying, when I suddenly found myself thinking that both the comedy and the insight were a bit thin on the ground. And there’s a lot of blogs like that. So many blogs… So many people nattering away about nothing… It’s like Seinfeld by a thousand cuts.

The internet has improved the world in so many ways — it’s so easy to share data, communicate, and look up small bits of trivia that would otherwise drive a person batty — but it’s brought a heck of a lot of dross to a wider audience as well. So much stuff — some good, a lot bad — calling out for our attention, clogging up our time.

And then, every once in a while, we suddenly see it for what it is, and the revelation is as jolting as the moment you break through the water after being submerged for a long time, and take that first deep lungful of air.

The most important things to me are my daughters and my husband, and the world we have created together, followed by the rest of my family, and then my close friends. My focus needs to be on them, and everything else kept in perspective.

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