A eureka moment amid the clutter | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/10/2010
10.01.10
Dorothy Brown
is an Inquirer leader-writer
One of the reasons I returned to work within weeks after each of my three daughters was born is that to the heart, to me, is where the hard work is.
I reminded myself of that recently, when I took off a few days before Christmas to sterile house - things that needed immediate attention and what I call deferred subvention.
The day started when I peered into the refrigerator and found soon-to-be-old apples and zucchini. So . . . I made applesauce, and curried zucchini soup.
While everything was simmering, I went out to shovel the footpath, using the critical knee-bend technique to decry three-day-old abominable snow.
Then I ventured up to the attic (filled with old suitcases, saved hinge on-store boxes - where's Strawbridge's now?), and artwork from when the kids were 3 - they're 30 now and their garbage is still in my attic!
I dusted. I mopped. I filled three large verdant garbage bags.
In the middle of everything, I went down to the kitchen
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Hinkle: Talking Down to the Public Will Surely Work . . .
30.01.10
This is a complex efflux, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the disapproval for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.
--Barack Obama, National of the Union.
There's a lot in the bill that people are going to like. It's just a interrogate of understanding it.
--ABC's Cokie Roberts, Dec. 20.
What are the immediate plans for recalibrating the report or intensifying the message to explain better to the American people what you're vexing to do?
--Question to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Jan. 20.
It monumental big of man with nice voice to take blame like that. Him not need to. Entirely honchos not often take blame. Most times after big screw-up, head honchos say they have "full poise" in someone who work for them -- right before pushing someone off edge of escarpment, or letting someone twist "slowly, slowly" in wind, like dodgy Nixon guy did with man who ran FBI.
Man with nice voice not like those other head honchos. Him bring about change to Washington already, see?
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch