It's kind of a story. . . When I was 11, one winter morning I got down to a perfect newly-surfaced large pond at the end of my street -- it had rained and then frozen. And I got there at dawn, it was bitter cold but beautiful, with my skates and I just skated wildly all over the brand new ice of the pond while the sun came up, until I had marked the whole thing, before another soul got there. It was like the morning of the world to me.
I want to answer the question before that too -- I wish I could have seen and heard the performance Marian Anderson gave in 1939 on Easter Sunday, standing outside before the great statue in the Lincoln Monument -- because the DAR would not let her sing in the Constitution Hall, because she was black. http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/...on/lincoln.html
I would be very very happy. I've always wanted that kind of land. Maybe I would build a ranch and hire cowhands and whatnot... OOOO the possibilities!
What if there was no such thing as multimedia entertainment?
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There's a dear little plant that grows in our Isle Twas St . Patrick himself, sure, that set it; And the sun of his labour with pleasure did smile, And with dew from his eye often wet it. It grows through the bog, through the brake, through the Mireland, and they call it the dear little shamrock of Ireland.
May those who love us love us And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts, And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping.
What if people used common sense instead of blaming others for their woes?
Oh, and what if pigs had wings? (Get the umbrella!!! Don't worry -- they never will. But if people did do that, they might tuck down and solve their own messes faster.)
What if you smiled at everyone you met all day long, and no one smiled back?
I would have hair on my head---more than is on my back!
What if you won the current powerball jackpot? ca-ching
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. ~Mark Twain
Before I did anything else I would give 10% to my church. Then I would build my mother and my in-laws new houses, pay off all of their bills, as well as my own, Take a nice long trip to Scotland, and donate some to help with Hurricane Relief efforts. I would also send a nice large chunk to Paul for mainaining CelticRadio and buying new music!
What if you were stranded on a deserted island and only had 10 cds with you (and a solar battery of course )? Which ones would you want them to be?
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