Documenting the constant struggle of soul transformation
It’s kind of funny, after the inauguration I expected thigs to be different. I kept thinking I would walk down the street and everyone would be smiling and waving at each other, birds chirping, the sun shinning, but everything was just the same as it was before except I was a little different.
I felt like I had just witnessed, been a part of, something really significant.
I was just over at NotCot looking at the photos of the Manifest Hope : DC show.
Reading that post and seeing all this art influenced by Barack Obama was a little surreal. Or at least I imagine it would be to him. The art is all pretty amazing and seeing all of it together is inspiring, no doubt:
from Time Magazine online
photos by crazywanda on flickr ,unless otherwise noted
There was art putting him next to Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, MLK and
President Lincoln and but he hasn’t done anything exceptionally great yet besides get elected president. I’m sure that required a lot of work but still if he just stopped now, it wouldn’t be anything worth putting in the books.
Maybe I’m missing something? Maybe it’s because he represents something different from what we’ve had all these years. You know, change. So maybe this movement is just using him/this as a posterboy for changes that we the people have made and/or are going to make. Why is this different? It seems just the same to me. Is it because we are so, so sick of Bush that Barack Obama is mind blowingly great? Is it because America has just elected our first half African American president and this shows that we are changing? (even though it’s like we’re saying “hey look, race is not an issue… LOOK! I SAID LOOK AT IT! WE DON’T CARE ABOUT RACE!” /will ferrell voice)
I expect great things from President-elect Obama, I think he will need to achieve great things if he wants to get re-elected. I just want to wait and see if he’s really as great as everyone else thinks he is. I admit I didn’t vote for him but I do think he’s a good candidate. I’m glad he’s giving everyone so much hope for the future of the country and hope for a lot of changes for the better. Maybe he will deserve to have a national monument named after him when he’s done in office, but he hasn’t done anything just yet, except maybe make an amazing branding case study.
While listening to NPR this weekend I heard some talk from a show (or segment?) called StoryCorps (which originally I thought was spelled Storycore and I thought “hardcore stories… these stories are intense”). StoryCorps was encouraging listeners to particiapte in an event called National Day of Listening. What happens is, the day after Thanksgiving you’re supposed to interview a family member, or friend, just anyone you know. You listen to them, listen to the story they have to tell, about anything. You just interview them and ask them to share a part of their life and memory with you.
I think I want to do this. I know my parents, aunts, uncles and grandma all have stories to tell. They have experiences that I won’t ever get to have, or would ever want to have really. I should get some of these stories from them while I still can.
Anyway, I encourage you to do the same. I might post some of these after I edit them. Maybe, we’ll see how it goes.
I have a new crush on US Elle’s Senior Stylist, Kate Lanphear. Mostly though, I just want her hair.
