Kenny Powers Letter to Tim Tebow
Seemed only appropriate.
If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Source: rulesformyunbornson
Beautiful. Fucking fantastic…
Happy Super Bowl Week! A little political/economic lesson to go along with the football. Go Pats!
Congratulations on the FL win Mittens! This is what it cost you…
Mr. Carlin at his best.
Oh, and paging Tim Tebow, God doesn’t care about football too.
“I saw Ovi at Russian House last night.” I believe those words have come out of my mouth.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Looking back on the past year, I don’t know how accurately express 2011 both on personal level and the broad historic trends:
Arab Spring, nuclear reactor explosions, 10th Anniversary of 9/11, ending of one war, continuation of another, the 99%, debt crisis, tornados and earthquakes, losing a few iconoclasts, gay rights, political stalemate…the list goes on and on. A new generation of ideas, tools, and people demanded to be heard across the world. We tweet, tumbled, facebooked our way through local events that suddenly had global significance. It was nearly universally understood that the old rules no longer applied, but the new ones good not yet be articulated.
It was a tough year. Dramatic even. But, even more than in 2008, I feel hope. I feel it strongly because as individuals we can no longer ignore the collective. More importantly, I am aware things can and will get worse before they can get better, and there is the need for hope rather than optimism. This sense of hope comes from the belief that humanity not only survived and overcame 2011, in the end it prevailed despite the challenges.
I feel it. But it is this photo that says it.
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
’ Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Politics: Cherlin's New Hampshire Insight
This one caught me by surprise this morning. For young staffers working high stakes politics, New Hampshire primary changes an understanding of politics and demands a campaigns best game. Great to see Reid tell the story of New Hampshire politics as I experienced it.
It was a “Must Reid” in my morning inbox!
(via GQ)
Steve Earle
(telling it like it is)
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
I have a deadline. I’m glad. I think that will help me get it done.
