http://tsuro.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/yes-we-can/ Life, Career, and the Pursuit if Happiness Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:30:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://tsuro.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/yes-we-can/#comment-40 Leeroy Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:48:45 +0000 http://tsuro.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-40 read the book. profound. read Dreams from my father. his first one. read the book. profound. read Dreams from my father. his first one.

]]> http://tsuro.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/yes-we-can/#comment-39 tsuro Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:17:23 +0000 http://tsuro.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-39 Bro, I haven't read the book yet, but may I suggest you read the audacity of hope. I love that title. It takes a certain level of audcity to live out those 'delusions of youth'. The alternative is to be ordinary. And in the words of my hero, 'what skall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul.' Bro, I haven’t read the book yet, but may I suggest you read the audacity of hope. I love that title. It takes a certain level of audcity to live out those ‘delusions of youth’. The alternative is to be ordinary. And in the words of my hero, ‘what skall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul.’

]]> http://tsuro.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/yes-we-can/#comment-38 Leeroy Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:59 +0000 http://tsuro.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-38 I used to have grandiose ideas of effecting the kind of change that makes my society a fair and just one, but lately, I've been preoccupied with the survival of self, let alone a society of 10 people. Delusions of youth? I was in the United States when Barack Obama won his first caucas in Iowa, and it heralded the entrance of a new kind of black man who did not use the race-card as a lynchpin, (Al Sharp, Jesse Jackson) but spoke a message of hope that lifted even I, an alien in Delaware, USA. I used to have grandiose ideas of effecting the kind of change that makes my society a fair and just one, but lately, I’ve been preoccupied with the survival of self, let alone a society of 10 people. Delusions of youth? I was in the United States when Barack Obama won his first caucas in Iowa, and it heralded the entrance of a new kind of black man who did not use the race-card as a lynchpin, (Al Sharp, Jesse Jackson) but spoke a message of hope that lifted even I, an alien in Delaware, USA.

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