Entries Tagged as ‘Yes, We Can!’

November 19, 2008

The stars align

People consider me very fortunate and I find it impossible to disagree – I’m healthy, my parents do more than provide for the family and things always magically present themselves. But I feel more blessed to have Kay-Lene, who, among other things, keeps me grounded through her ability to persevere past closed doors.

November 11, 2008

Rain on my parade

On The View yesterday, Keith Olbermann provided a brief moment of thought-provoking insight into journalistic objectivity, which I hitherto had not considered.
“I don’t think by eight o’clock at night, people don’t know what has happened during the day. A lot of us, in doing the news or news programming, go to bed every night thinking, [...]

November 7, 2008

Darkest before the dawn

“That out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: ‘Yes, We Can.’”
You’d better believe it.
Even the prospect of graduating [...]