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A few years back my sister gave me a book on Sesame Street for Christmas. I was a baby when Sesame Street premiered and so I was the first audience it had. I still remember a bunch of the old skits and things and whenever they play now I get all nostalgic. For Sesame Street fans the book is great. It’s called Sesame Street Unpaved by David Borgenicht. Anyway, I dug it out tonight and was pouring through it when I came upon a section called The Poetry of Sesame Street. It had a poem by the Reverend Jesse R. Jackson. I assume he wrote it, and the words are powerful. So powerful that I looked it up on youtube.
It’s even more powerful when you watch it. It gave me chills. This clip was filmed in 1971 and I don’t think it would be re-aired today. Too in your face.
Sesame Street was such a neat show. I still can watch it but it’s a shame what political correctness has done to rob this show of what made it great in the first place. It set out to teach kids about their letters and numbers, but also about kindness and tolerance and cooperation and sharing. It taught by example, but it also showcased a grouch to show kids that even negative emotions were ok. It was just ahead of it’s time in every way.
I always wanted to meet Jim Henson and work with him (I used to want to be a puppeteer) and I always wanted to be on Sesame Street.
The former is now impossible and the latter is not very likely to ever happen, but hey, a gal can dream, huh?
Yesterday morning, we woke up early to the President giving a speech from Cairo on peace in the middle east. I was only half paying attention at first as I was making lunches and getting kids up but it was such a good speech that I actually stopped what I was doing to listen. I have to tell you that I was very impressed. He was firm and knowledgable and he was nice but not too nice and he wasn’t condescending and he wasn’t thumping his chest… it was a, dare I say it, GREAT speech. I want to watch it again on youtube and catch what I missed.
As he was talking I just kept thinking how unbelievable it is that he is President. And how COOL. To actually have someone in the white house who is both a democrat AND who has the courage of his convictions? Unthinkable! That has been my one big problem with Democrats. They seem like a party of weenies to me. I always want to scream at them to PICK a side and stick with it no matter who disagrees with you! Don’t pander. Not everyone has to like you, but people will respect you more if YOU respect your own opinions.
Obama is not afraid to take huge risks wiht his name all over them just because he thinks they are right. He was not afraid to give this rousing great speech while actually IN the middle east! I must admit, I prayed for his safety yesterday and again today.
I am just so PROUD of him, and this is not a feeling I usually feel towards our Presidents.
It’s a nice change.
