Happy Birthday, First Lady Michelle Obama!

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

--First Lady Michelle Obama


Note- This is a repost from her birthday,  last year. I just love this quote of hers and felt it beared repeating, at least for myself!

About love

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.  ~Leo Tolstoy

It is so obvious that The President and The First Lady are in love. The chemistry between the two are always smoldering. 

I love seeing  people in love

Happy Birthday, President Obama!

Phrase of the day

  "Teachable moment." 

             Definition: a moment of educational opportunity: a time at which a person, especially a child, is likely to be particularly disposed to learn something or particularly responsive to being taught or made aware of something.

             In July 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his home; the incident garnered media attention throughout the United States. The mayor of Cambridge, E. Denise Simmons, said that she hoped that the result would be a "teachable moment". U.S. President Barack Obama expressed the same hope as Simmons:

             "My hope is, is that as a consequence of this event this ends up being what's called a "teachable moment", where all of us instead of pumping up the volume spend a little more time listening to each other and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities, and that instead of flinging accusations we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity." Obama's use of the phrase attracted considerable comment in the American media and blogosphere.
              Gates himself echoed the same theme, stating, "I told the President that my entire career as an educator has been devoted to racial healing and improved race relations in this country. I am determined that this be a teaching moment."     ---courtesy wikipedia


                 The security guard who stopped me when I left work yesterday (because a white woman reported that a black man was in the building last week and he looked suspicious)  will be having a teachable moment, soon.

History is expecting you.

This is for my nephew and my God-daughter, and all your children and my future children and every child out there.

History is expecting you

to be leaders of the free world, to cure Cancer and Aids and Diabetes and Heart Disease, etc., to create beautiful music that will be timeless classics like Mozart, Tchaikovsky, & Chopin, to create Picassos, to write your own The Catcher In The Rye, to be the next William Shakespeare, or equally as important,

to be great mothers and fathers and uncles and aunts and God-parents to inspire your children to be whatever they dream of being.

I'm pretty sure that if President Obama, as a child, told his mother that he wanted to be President of the Unites States, she might have said to herself that that was highly unlikely.

but,

History expects you.