Yes We Can and What It Means to Me

Oh my, how I have thought about this over the last couple of months. "Yes we can", what does this really mean to all of us. Yes, it was used as a presidential campaign slogan, but have you really thought about it?? I have. It does not mean only that we have elected a bi-racial President. Yes, I say this because all the mainstream media ever talks about is the first "African American President", but he is not just African American, he is truly "Bi-racial" and there are many more of us who can identify with this. As a bi-racial child (yes, 1/2 Mexican, English) I myself have experienced prejudices, but it has been more as a female. The opportunities were there and I made the best of them. We have a generation who came of age in the 60's and 70's who experienced this in various different forms (color, gender, how you looked, etc), however, we have a whole generation from the late 80's to 90's who did not experience some of this.

My, hope of "Yes We Can", means to me, a new beginning and hope. For the last 8 years we have seen our country disrespect grow by leaps and bound more than I have ever seen. Not just by foreign countries but by the American people as well. Yes, we may have been asleep, ignored things and we had a terrible incident with 911, but have we really learned anything from that? Don't believe we did. We seem to be forgetting what this country's foundation was built on. We are a country of immigrants and opportunity, that is what makes us such a great country.

To me, "Yes We Can" means we can see ourselves getting out of this economic mess and get our country's self respect back. We all need to be accountable for what we do and how we operate. For too long, we all took the easy way out. Let's become more responsible for what we do and what we want. Be proud of yourself, your country and be proud of this new presidency and what it represents. The possibilities are endless and for that we must look for the positives.

And to those who said they would leave this country if Obama was elected, well you might be surprised as to how other countries political system are built. Along with the personal rights we take for granted.

Our new President will have his mis-steps. I can deal with this because I personally believe we have put a lot of hope that everything will be magically fixed, it won't. It took us a while to get to this state and so it will take us a little while to get out of it.

This is enough of my political comment that I will say.

Wishing you all positive for the rest of year and wishing our new president all the luck because he will need it.

Another Year Has Come and Gone

Well, I just can't believe we are now into 2009!!! 2008 just seem to go by so fast, like swishhhhhhhhhhhh.............

But what a year. A couple of RV trips, family discoveries, family meetings, watching Chloe grow, a fantastic presidential race and Ron and I maintaining our health. Can't be more thankful for all of the positives. Won't go into the negatives, of which there were not many except watching our investments go and down, at least they went a little before the end of the year.

So now we are at that time of year, I dislike. Taking down the decorations and putting them all away. Yes, for some reason, I do not take down the holiday decorations until the Saturday after New Year's. Not sure if it is because it was always what Mom did or a Catholic thing, who knows. Tells you how much of a practicing Catholic I am these days. But some traditions are hard to break.

But the good news of taking down the Christmas decorations, Valentine's Day. This is special for me as it is also my birthday as well.

The weather is dreary and raining today so I am just going to honker down and watch movies and knit. Got hat requests after the Christmas gift Hats I made.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2009..........