Candy at Not A Walking Encyclopedia gave me this award!
This is what she said: The Prémio Dardos is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web. I award this one to Patterning The World and she well deserves it. Not only will you find her original fiction on her blog but she spreads the word about methods to help those less fortunate. She also is a quilter and miniature enthusiast.
Thank you, Candy!
As a mark of return respect, I'll note here for anyone in Australia who also plans to set their alarm clock for 3.30am Sydney time on Wednesday 21 January, that the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) is broadcasting Barack Obama's inauguration on ABC1, live and uninterrupted. Here's the TV guide link.
Quite accidentally I was in Washington DC when Bill Clinton was inaugurated for the first time (I was on a fellowship grant, travelling through North America), and it was an amazing time to be there. The atmosphere...well, the closest I've got to it since is probably in Sydney during the Olympics in 2000, the general bonhomie, goodwill, the sense of shared celebration. It was a great time to be there, just being among that crowd, walking the Mall, hearing the oath of office not only through the radio (I was a fair way away, but could see the Capitol building) but also faintly through the loudspeakers. Whatever one's hindsight opinion of his presidency - back then at the start it was all optimism, the hope of change, and I imagine it's a similar feeling now, too. The audacity of hope.
2 comments:
That first part is actually what the award says. I added the part about you.
I have to say in hindsight of the last eight years that Clinton's terms in office were a time of unprecedented prosperity. This is something everyone seems to lose sight of over here. We had a budget surplus when he left office and now our grandchildren's futures have been ransomed.
I was never one who cared a whit whether he had a blow job or not. I don't think anyone's sex life is anyone's else's business as long as it is consensual and both parties are of age. We have a lot of crazy people here who want to get into other people's lives and tell them what they can do.
I am hoping Obama will bring us back to sense but he has a whole lot of trouble to deal with that Clinton did not. That is definitely audacious.
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