digital immigrant

Can't sleep... but I did have Land talk me through how to email myself a pic from my phone before he went to bed. This is from May 2007... President Obama [well, not quite at the time] spoke at Kimball's Junction in Park City. I bolted out of my parent's house when I thought I might have the opportunity to see the next POTUS. [most of the family gathered were exhibiting puzzled looks and and asking, "who is Barack Obama?"] It was thrilling. I have shook the President's hand. A woman I met on the plane flying home from the inauguration wanted me to email this to her... now I finally can.

I WAS THERE...

Shepard Fairey poster

At least that is what I will be saying Wednesday morning. I am leaving in an hour to go to DC for the inauguration. Can you say "what a shocker!" I just want to get cozy with 4-5 million other fellow citizens to witness history. It really would never make sense to another, but Obama's journey to the presidency is a sort of personal metaphor for my own journey the last four years. Nervous, anxious, hopeful excitement is brewing. I've got to go and pack my warm clothes. Look for me... I'll be wearing an ice blue puffy coat and a bright pink hat. This song is repeating over and over in my mind this morning... click here.

The Audacity of Hope!

OBAMA O8 OH YEAH

Yes I Can... Write

Harry Connick Jr. and family, Paul Hawken, Wallace J. Nichols

Anne Morrow & Charles Lindbergh, Terry Tempest Williams, Barack my world Obama

In order to finish my thesis I need to write approximately 500 words a day. My office is without windows and lacks productivity inducing design. Ironic, I know, since it is located in the design department, but I tacked up a few photos of people that will provide much needed motivation. All visionaries in my book. There is a crooner with gorgeous family, a bioneer, a turtle guy, a pilot and author, a naturalist and activist, and a presidential canidate in a cowboy hat. 

Raising Obama

Some have wondered exactly what Barack Obama's background is and what he has accomplished. Vanity Fair magazine has produced an excellent article entitled Raising Obama that is excellent. Oh and I might as well post a link to this article on Harry Connick Jr.

Can You Feel it in the Air?

Look here...

HOPE

”The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”
Seamus Heaney

I have been "fired-up, ready to go" ever since I heard Barack speak at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Obama '08, Oh Yeah!