Michelle's gonna' have a White House vegetable garden a la Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II Victory Garden. Michelle got the green going with the St. Paddy's Day White House green water fountain and her new idea is a flashback to my past. Is the help we need to be found in a rewind in order to go forward?
World news is crammed with flashbacks. Doctors are testing using maggots to clean out leg ulcers...that's going back a really long time...shall I start saving leeches? Cleansing with natures remedies was big-time in the past. Way back when, the Springtime ritual was a liver cleansing: Best with acupuncture to keep your liver in harmony with nature. In fact, in China, when someone seems out of harmony with everybody - angry - the greeting is, "How's your liver?" Oh, those Chinese are not backward...they trace back to treasures and go forward owning our treasury.
Since Treasury honchos okay ed AIG bonuses and the backlash is the bonuses are coming back one way or another, whose gonna' be the backbone of these companies if execs are given money and then have to give it back? Then, the overtly-lying-politician-cartoon stars an oldie who used to be a good-ie, Chris Dodd from Connecticut...can you believe he looked the camera in the lens and did a Bush-Cheney oldie - he blandly lied? Wonder if he'll be elected again. Well, why not, when we have a track record of repeating mistakes. We re-elected Bush and he's keeping his money. Solutions based on the past are worldwide...
...a back slide in Great Britain's auto industry brings back a plan to pay for scrap...just like the during 1940's war effort. Announcing that March 23 is the best day to buy a bargain car because car dealers must meet monthly sales targets, cars are selling at substantial savings to twelve month ago and UK supply will come into line with demand by end of year. Brits are paying cash-for-scrap. Cash toward new cars for older models. It's a...
...back-tracking and rehashing the old into new. As I contemplate world news, it seems that we are going to rewind before we can go forward.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
MICHELLE'S GREEN-FOR-A-DAY
When I wrote about the White House green water fountains yesterday, I had no idea that it was Michelle's idea to bring a bit of her Chicago home to the nation's capitol. In Chicago they color the river green for St. Patrick's Day. So, in her St. Paddy's green, winter fur-lined boots, Michelle put a Mom's focus on the current holiday and the White House, for the first time, watched the dancing green waters rise and sink and made DC a little more like her Chicago home.
In this terrible time of our children seeing the expectation of ethics, morals and standards from respected business leaders and politicians being disregarded, it's refreshing and a bit of an escape from personal depression to see Michelle's Mom-enthusiasm for getting-into holiday spirit and bringing St. Patrick Day green to the White House. Her children awoke to see that the White House lawn fountain went green-for-day...
...'cause being a Mother gets you into all holiday spirits. Moms get into Christmas Tree decorating, Easter egg hunts and Thanksgiving dinner table autumn centerpieces big time. Michelle exemplifies Moms. I wonder if she instructed the White House chef to make green mashed potatoes for her kids while AIG's CEO Liddy was in the Senate hot seat, Senator Chris Dodd's nose was growing like Pinocchio's and nobody in the world was green with envy to be President of these United States?
I like Michelle's plan for her kid's living naturally and it's natural for Mom's to make a big deal about holidays. Once I was a "Mom" fixed on making life the best and most fun it could be for my kids. It's with mixed emotions as a Granny now, as I watch green gook come to surface in my outdoor spa cause I can't afford professional pool-cleaning service anymore, to know that Senators lie just like Madoff schemers, my taxes are going to unwarranted AIG, Fannie and Freddie executive bonuses and coloring the White House fountain water green for a day.
In this terrible time of our children seeing the expectation of ethics, morals and standards from respected business leaders and politicians being disregarded, it's refreshing and a bit of an escape from personal depression to see Michelle's Mom-enthusiasm for getting-into holiday spirit and bringing St. Patrick Day green to the White House. Her children awoke to see that the White House lawn fountain went green-for-day...
...'cause being a Mother gets you into all holiday spirits. Moms get into Christmas Tree decorating, Easter egg hunts and Thanksgiving dinner table autumn centerpieces big time. Michelle exemplifies Moms. I wonder if she instructed the White House chef to make green mashed potatoes for her kids while AIG's CEO Liddy was in the Senate hot seat, Senator Chris Dodd's nose was growing like Pinocchio's and nobody in the world was green with envy to be President of these United States?
I like Michelle's plan for her kid's living naturally and it's natural for Mom's to make a big deal about holidays. Once I was a "Mom" fixed on making life the best and most fun it could be for my kids. It's with mixed emotions as a Granny now, as I watch green gook come to surface in my outdoor spa cause I can't afford professional pool-cleaning service anymore, to know that Senators lie just like Madoff schemers, my taxes are going to unwarranted AIG, Fannie and Freddie executive bonuses and coloring the White House fountain water green for a day.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Michelle - Making the White House a Home
Entertaining in the White House for Michelle is not a formal state occasion...she's at home; dressing and appearing relaxed and welcoming.
I want to remember this picture: The hand-holding Obamas, hurrying down the red carpet to a White House dinner for two hundred, found Barack adjusting his jacket, Michelle in a cut-for-comfort-black pants suit accessorized with black flats giving an impression of pleasant anticipation.
Michelle made me think of the harried days when my life was kid, husband, job and keeping up a social schedule challenging. I got everything done without prying eyes that might notice my blunders and swift corrections. Michelle's got photographers popping flash at every turn and she's doing much more than I could have accomplished and and turning a previously stuffy formal house into a welcoming home.
In a very short time, The White house has become her backdrop. She's brought the life style of a family-first, socially conscious, professional young woman to the Washington scene, Michelle is getting to know her neighbors. After spending a morning serving food to the homeless a few blocks away, talking to media, pointing up the need for help for military families and an afternoon when Brad Pitt dropped in for a quiet chat with her husband, she obviously needed to dress quickly and for common-sense, comfort.
It's nice to feel that I can identify my family life with the new First Family. I still think a cover-up at formal business meetings is "correct." However, at home, she's the bright, smiling queen in her castle...she decides what's "correct." She's so "real - she's brought kitchen-table comfort to her house and anything that keeps her husband happy and keeps her doing what she's doing in her home is gonna' work for me.
I want to remember this picture: The hand-holding Obamas, hurrying down the red carpet to a White House dinner for two hundred, found Barack adjusting his jacket, Michelle in a cut-for-comfort-black pants suit accessorized with black flats giving an impression of pleasant anticipation.
Michelle made me think of the harried days when my life was kid, husband, job and keeping up a social schedule challenging. I got everything done without prying eyes that might notice my blunders and swift corrections. Michelle's got photographers popping flash at every turn and she's doing much more than I could have accomplished and and turning a previously stuffy formal house into a welcoming home.
In a very short time, The White house has become her backdrop. She's brought the life style of a family-first, socially conscious, professional young woman to the Washington scene, Michelle is getting to know her neighbors. After spending a morning serving food to the homeless a few blocks away, talking to media, pointing up the need for help for military families and an afternoon when Brad Pitt dropped in for a quiet chat with her husband, she obviously needed to dress quickly and for common-sense, comfort.
It's nice to feel that I can identify my family life with the new First Family. I still think a cover-up at formal business meetings is "correct." However, at home, she's the bright, smiling queen in her castle...she decides what's "correct." She's so "real - she's brought kitchen-table comfort to her house and anything that keeps her husband happy and keeps her doing what she's doing in her home is gonna' work for me.
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