July 2012
3 posts
Just in: President Barack Obama is descendant of...
This story is example of the beauty of the continuing American narrative and it is what gives me eternal optimism that the American spirit can solve any problem ahead of us. Ancestry.com has just discovered that John Punch, the first African enslaved for life in America, was the 11th great-grandfather of President Barack Obama. The very first slave legally enslaved in America father a future...
DC: Uber Right or Uber Wrong?
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” -Thomas Jefferson
“If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.”- David Hackworth
I am a child of the DC region. I grew up in Silver Spring, MD right on the border of DC...
In my experience the lack of or the existence of happiness is a result of slight changes in perspective. The lack of something, the failure to gain what we think we desire or need, is many times the opposite of emptiness- nothingness has matter and matters. When I fail it lacks finality. Failure is never final. Emptiness is never empty. I gain by losing. I gain by winning. So in the end I am happy...
