August 27, 2008
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Songlines:
"One Shot"
-- Keynote Address,
Democratic
National ConventionOf the People,
by the People,
for the PeopleFrom the autobiography of Reba McEntire:
"...my major field of study was elementary education and my minor was
music. I received my bachelor's degree, but never taught school as my
Mama and Grandma had done before me...." --My Story, Bantam, 1994From a notable production of "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Reba McEntire:
"Doin' what comes naturally...."
-- Irving BerlinFrom Zenna Henderson's first story of the People:
"Suddenly I felt her, so plainly that I knew with a feeling of
fear and pride that I was of my grandmother, that soon I would be
bearing the burden and blessing of her Gift -- the Gift that develops
into free access to any mind, one of the People or an Outsider, willing
or not. And besides the access, the ability to counsel and help, to
straighten tangled minds and snarled emotions.... It was the first time
I had ever sorted anybody."-- "Ararat," in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1952 (reprinted in Ingathering, NESFA Press, 1995)
"You know, I spent 20 years in business. If you ran a company whose
only strategy was to tear down the competition, it wouldn't last long.
So why is this wisdom so hard to find in Washington?I know we're at the Democratic convention, but if an idea works, it
really doesn't matter if it has an 'R' or 'D' next to it. Because this
election isn't about liberal versus conservative. It's not about left
versus right. It's about the future versus the past.In this election, at this moment in our history, we know what the
problems are. We know that at this critical juncture, we have only one
shot to get it right....Let me tell you about a place called Lebanon-- Lebanon, Virginia."
-- Last night's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
"The lunatic,
the lover,
and the poet
are of imagination
all compact."
-- ShakespeareFor further details,
see the sons and
daughters of
Bluefield, Pikeville,
and Asheville.
