[Oe List ...] A word to add to George's collegium

[Jeanette Stanfield]

Yes yes Tracy your generation is taking us into the future.

Cheers
Jeanette


Tracy E. Longacre

> Jeannette,
> 
> Funny, I was walking home last night and thought of Kevin Rudd also, in
> light of Obama's victory. (I'm surrounded by Australian's here). It really
> feels like a generational shift is starting to happen around the world. And
> I'm really surprised, actually, to see that it is my generation (Obama and I
> are the same age) that is stepping up. We are a generation that no one even
> acknowledges the existence of -- people try to put us either with the
> Boomers or with Generation X -- and lo and behold, here we are.
> 
> Walking home last night was honestly the first time in my life when I felt
> proud to be an American. So proud, I actually wanted to *tell* people. Wow.
> 
>    Tracy E. Longacre
>    UN Volunteer
>    from Honiara, Solomon Islands
> 
>    Blog: http://telglobal.vox.com
>    Run Blog:  http://revruns.blogspot.com
>    Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlongacre/
> 
> "Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a
> war on want. . . It is the attitude that one has been born fundamentally
> rich rather than that one must become rich. Without this kind of confidence,
> meditation cannot be transferred into action at all."
> -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
> 
> 
> 
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