In our current episode of life at the Boone Mellow Mushroom ...
... there was a lot of excitement. A beautiful redhead with big blue eyes showed up with her proud dad. She's only 10 months old and made a horrible face when Clemens held her.
Young Máeráed ignored all of the hubbub and was busy writing something on her laptop. In fact she paid no attention to Clemens or anyone else until she was done. Then she immediately popped over to my table as if to say she was ready for me to pay attention to her. I asked her what her project was and she said it was a PowerPoint presentation about President Obama. She even has a big pretty picture of his Certification of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii. Certification - linguistically that is what a 'Certificate' is. A 'certification.' Even a 7 year old knows this.
She was so excited about her project that she wrote to Obama telling him about it. It was a beautiful hand written note. In this get-it-done-immediately slipshod world of e-mail and twitter, how many of you take the time to hand write a note? Or course, she should have used a fountain pen, but still. ..
Anyway, Máeráed being Máeráed, she is already wondering why she hasn't heard from the guy. Doesn't he take the time to answer HAND WRITTEN notes from 7 year old Irish-Americans!!??
Well, he has an excuse, I suppose. A lot, and I mean a lot, of mail. In fact the process of answering all of it took a whole long article in The Washington Post to explain how it is done, and how Obama reads 10 randomly chosen pieces of mail every night. Some of which he actually answers with a HAND WRITTEN note on special note cards. With a BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN.
I'm telling you, the man walks on water.
... there was a lot of excitement. A beautiful redhead with big blue eyes showed up with her proud dad. She's only 10 months old and made a horrible face when Clemens held her.
Young Máeráed ignored all of the hubbub and was busy writing something on her laptop. In fact she paid no attention to Clemens or anyone else until she was done. Then she immediately popped over to my table as if to say she was ready for me to pay attention to her. I asked her what her project was and she said it was a PowerPoint presentation about President Obama. She even has a big pretty picture of his Certification of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii. Certification - linguistically that is what a 'Certificate' is. A 'certification.' Even a 7 year old knows this.
She was so excited about her project that she wrote to Obama telling him about it. It was a beautiful hand written note. In this get-it-done-immediately slipshod world of e-mail and twitter, how many of you take the time to hand write a note? Or course, she should have used a fountain pen, but still. ..
Anyway, Máeráed being Máeráed, she is already wondering why she hasn't heard from the guy. Doesn't he take the time to answer HAND WRITTEN notes from 7 year old Irish-Americans!!??
Well, he has an excuse, I suppose. A lot, and I mean a lot, of mail. In fact the process of answering all of it took a whole long article in The Washington Post to explain how it is done, and how Obama reads 10 randomly chosen pieces of mail every night. Some of which he actually answers with a HAND WRITTEN note on special note cards. With a BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN.
I'm telling you, the man walks on water.
posted by Clemens | 9:54 PM
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What kind of fountain pen?
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