"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Friday, November 19, 2010

Dear Mr. President

~The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pretty sure my MP3 player has a mind of it's own. It goes through phases. Like playing all my church songs and young womens music in a row for ten songs... it can be too much. Or today when it played a song, played another, and went back to the one before... really? Haha, I have over 700 songs on there right now.

I haven't put any new music on in at least six weeks. Okay, except for Taylor Swift's new CD-which is AMAZING, by the way :) But for some reason there were all these songs this week that I haven't heard. Maybe I just don't pay attention. I don't know. About seven and a half hours of listening to music five days a week... you'd think I'd know every song on there by heart.

Well, there's this song I heard this week by Pink called "Dear Mr. President." It was very thought provoking, in my opinion. I've listened to it several times and actually ended up researching a little bit about it. According to a few cites and online articles it is in reference to President Bush. But honestly, I think it is just interesting to think about... particularly the first third or so.

I don't mean any disrespect to Bush and would like to say I think it can go for any president or king or anything of the like.


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  1. Corey WilkeyNovember 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM

    i love it...i love pink but for some reason i have never heard this song before!thanks so much for posting.

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