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Power Reveals
It was really an impossible task for anybody. Especially for Jack.
Except for him.
There he was in the small room — secret service keeping him there, he, not knowing what was happening.
Jack had essentially had cut him off from power for three years.
Powerless. A Fox on a Leash.
The first Vice President, had described it as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
But then one of Kennedy’s aides, came to him in that small hospital room, and said with some solemnity — “Mr President..”
The Ride of a Life Time
The person still has the record for being the youngest astronaut in space.
It was quite a Ride.
“Let’s Light This Candle”
Alan Shepard
Feed them on your dreams
He had a voice, and he had found it.
And his natural talent was to teach, using that voice.
He did what he loved, and loved what he did.
“Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs…” [The 8th Habit]
And that’s what he did, for he was a Teacher Idealist, a Proactive Idealist.
An Educator. “… as inherent in the word educator, it has to be educed by an individual skilled in drawing out potentials. In this interaction the Diplomatic Initiators have an edge over all others, including the other Idealists. They seem uncannily able to influence those who seek to improve what they say and do at work.” — Dr. David Keirsey
Voices in the Rooms
Miles: “Pain takes away pain.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “Really, hows does that work?”
Miles: “Outside pain make inside pain hurt less.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “You mean if you cut yourself on the outside, your feelings will hurt less?”
Miles: “Yeah.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “Where did you learn this?”
“I don’t know. Jensen does it, too.”
She woke up in pain. She had just had a baby by Caesarian, but she didn’t know it or anything else. She felt alone and scared.
“The nurse kept calling me Karen.”
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You can never go home, again
Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
It was a comfortable, almost a Tom Sawyer existence. It seemed to be a much simpler time. Yes, I was young.
It was the 50s.
Well, actually in this particular case, it was played in the innocent 60’s as if it was the 50’s.
He was like those wise, kind, and forgiving fathers of the 50’s. The time of Ike, who protected and provided for us, hiding the complexities and real dangers of life from us. TV fathers and mothers of the 50s and 60s. Providing and Protecting.
Father Knows Best, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, The Rifleman, Leave it to Beaver, Sky King, and … Continue reading You can never go home, again
Friendly Fun
Admit it, you know the scene… Meg Ryan.
Ok, another hint.
“I’ll have what she’s having” — Ok, now you know.
That Friendly Fun.
Making fun of the foibles of human relations, was her forte. Taking a jocular look at sensitive subjects. Real issues.
Do What You Love
If others can benefit from it.
Yes, she is in a league of her own: Boys Baseball Little League. She is the only girl in the league.
Her statistics are impeccable. In four years of pitching for Brandon Farms against all-boys teams, she compiled a perfect 37-0 record. She completed a 12-0 season with the second perfect game of her career (16 strikeouts in six innings) while striking out 127 in 60 innings. Her team was the city champion three times. She threw her second perfect game — and predicted this one just hours before she did it.
It’s about Time.
It has been a long time gone.
They finally have the time to try to make it work.
You know that thing called Democracy.
No, not the rhetoric — well, the false promises… words, words, words. The Politician. The lies.. The grabbing of power, and holding on. The Tyrants. Rulers. Leaders, in name only.
Enough..
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately … Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! — Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament.
They have gone in two countries. Male tyrants and scoundrels.
It’s about time for their turn: two strong and determined women. The Challenge of Democracy. The men have been mostly a disaster.
The Gift
He said softly, “I don’t see the point of us meeting.”
The conversation had essentially ended at that point. It was a complex point. An awkward social moment in time.
Very likely he wouldn’t accept a gift of million dollars.
It was a clopen topic to him; you see, it hadn’t anything to do with Mathematics proper.