This is too sweet. Since I just discovered this, (I really thought we saw it all Inauguration Week) I knew I should pass it on to others like me. :) It's very well done.
Enjoy!
Warmly,
Showing posts with label Inauguration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inauguration. Show all posts
Bush Girls Letter To Obama Girls Sweet
This is too sweet. Since I just discovered this, (I really thought we saw it all Inauguration Week) I knew I should pass it on to others like me. :) It's very well done.
Enjoy!
Warmly,
Dixie and the South On Inauguration Day of Barack Obama
The night Obama won the Presidential Vote, I sat motionless staring at my computer screen (my chosen mode) that evening. The house was quite with two tow-headed sons and a once tow-headed, man all sleeping soundly. I had to know, I had to see it, feel it and be there when that moment in history happened.
I wept. Right there on my keyboard as I leaned into the big screen. Daring to miss a moment, a detail, a smile. Malia Obama is the age I was when Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain.
It is staggering to learn about segregation when you were pretty sheltered from its perils. I was raised in Dixie, New Orleans to be exact. And many things circulate my mind as I try to grasp what was happening in the world as I was shielded from it.
1) President John F. Kennedy Assignationl
2) My father, a Tulane Law graduate, was a clerk on the Kennedy investigation there in New Orleans;
3) 16th Street Baptist Church/Birmingham bombing/murder of the children - I'll never forget the chill that came over me as I picked up a children's book that revealed this history as my own tots sat reading Dr. Suess;
4) Civil Rights;
5) Alfred in 3rd Grade was bussed to our school - I recall the fact and nothing negative or overly positive;
6) Rosa Parks - I grasped the magnitude as an adult
Now that I can understand all of these atrocities, I am glad I was young and didn't understand at the time. Mainly, I am glad our world has changed!
Even better, I am thankful for a father who taught us to love all people. I have many memories of my Daddy's love for folks of all colors and social rank. One of my fond memories as a child was when my Daddy would take our entire family, all of us girls and my brother, to the African American church of one of his clients. All of these brothers were performing together. It was wonderful.
Yes, we were the only white folk there. Was the music awesome, you bet! Only now do I understand to courage it took for him to take a stand for African American people, by saying yes, we will socialize with each other. We will attend. Those were some good times and we loved the music.
So this Inauguration Day of President Elect Barack Obama, I am thankful for this place in history. And I am thankful with how far we have come as a country. I appreciate and respect the story of Michelle and Barack and their walk to the White House.
Today in the South, I am thankful for our community and church where we play and worship side-by-side children of all races and one God who loves us the same.
Today in Dixie, my South, this Inauguration Day, it "Works for Me Wednesday" to embrace the history of this great nation and share it with my children right here and now.
Would you like to share what WFMW - any of the positive changes you have seen in this delicate area of our history?
God Bless You and America!
**Editing in to submit this to The Inspired Room to share what is beautiful to me this week! Go see others thoughts and share yours.
Warmly,
I wept. Right there on my keyboard as I leaned into the big screen. Daring to miss a moment, a detail, a smile. Malia Obama is the age I was when Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain.
It is staggering to learn about segregation when you were pretty sheltered from its perils. I was raised in Dixie, New Orleans to be exact. And many things circulate my mind as I try to grasp what was happening in the world as I was shielded from it.
1) President John F. Kennedy Assignationl
2) My father, a Tulane Law graduate, was a clerk on the Kennedy investigation there in New Orleans;
3) 16th Street Baptist Church/Birmingham bombing/murder of the children - I'll never forget the chill that came over me as I picked up a children's book that revealed this history as my own tots sat reading Dr. Suess;
4) Civil Rights;
5) Alfred in 3rd Grade was bussed to our school - I recall the fact and nothing negative or overly positive;
6) Rosa Parks - I grasped the magnitude as an adult
Now that I can understand all of these atrocities, I am glad I was young and didn't understand at the time. Mainly, I am glad our world has changed!
Even better, I am thankful for a father who taught us to love all people. I have many memories of my Daddy's love for folks of all colors and social rank. One of my fond memories as a child was when my Daddy would take our entire family, all of us girls and my brother, to the African American church of one of his clients. All of these brothers were performing together. It was wonderful.
Yes, we were the only white folk there. Was the music awesome, you bet! Only now do I understand to courage it took for him to take a stand for African American people, by saying yes, we will socialize with each other. We will attend. Those were some good times and we loved the music.
So this Inauguration Day of President Elect Barack Obama, I am thankful for this place in history. And I am thankful with how far we have come as a country. I appreciate and respect the story of Michelle and Barack and their walk to the White House.
Today in the South, I am thankful for our community and church where we play and worship side-by-side children of all races and one God who loves us the same.
Today in Dixie, my South, this Inauguration Day, it "Works for Me Wednesday" to embrace the history of this great nation and share it with my children right here and now.
Would you like to share what WFMW - any of the positive changes you have seen in this delicate area of our history?
God Bless You and America!
**Editing in to submit this to The Inspired Room to share what is beautiful to me this week! Go see others thoughts and share yours.
Warmly,
Inauguration Kids Activities and Giveaway
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*Win It Wednesday Giveaway - Enter quickOPEN til 9:00 EST.
Are you ready for Inauguration Day? Getting super excited for this historic day. Yesterday, I wrote a post about the change of President and how I want to involve my children. That really just got me more interested in all of the kids activities available.
Here's What To Do To Include Your Children:
1) And just so you know, you heard it here, President Elect Barack Obama is having a Kids Concert the night before the Inauguration! Friends of all of yours, the Jonas Brothers Headline Kids the Concert.
2) Build The Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin commemorating our forefathers hard work and living in log cabins.
3) Make the Obama Symbol paper plate. Big pop of color and makes a great statement on this day. And it looks more than easy. So go ahead, get creative.
4) Please join us for this act of love for the Obamas and our Country.
***Win It Wednesday Winner will be drawn at 9pm EST. Go ahead and enter right here, right now.
Teaching my children history, learning and enjoying it myself, this Works For Me Wednesday.
Warmly,
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