Jiminy crickets, I have had a fun week listening to my name being butchered on the radio and reading it every day in the newspapers and online. The latest was this email from Jodi Jacobson from Engender Health that took me over the top:
With thanks to my colleague Curtis Hicks for the idea, we sent my blog on Tobias and the prostitution pledge to the Daily Show and they did two pieces on the story,…..so for a good laugh, go to the Daily Show website and watch the two videos, “Prostitution Gate” and “Beltway UnBuckled”…..
At first I thought it was one of those personalized emails, encouraging me to read “my blog on Tobias and the prostitution pledge”, but then I realized that this simply could not be so and it had to be about this to-bias(ed) guy.
Jodi was indeed blogging about Randall Tobias, not Tobias Eigen, in her Tobias Latest Evidence of Bush Hypocrisy blog posting. Continue reading ‘Now more than ever: it’s toe-bee-us, not to-bias(ed)’
Last night I had the pleasure of being invited to a fundraising event here in Seattle for an organization called RESULTS. More about that in a minute - but first let me type in the text of an inspirational quote that was on a scrap of paper at my plate, complete with the right justification and lots of semicolons:
People are often unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of
selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
attributed to Mother Teresa
Reading this reminded me so much of my mother that I almost cried. She died five years ago this summer, and in many ways I always felt that she operated by her own rules and did all of these things - she was kind, honest and frank, serene and happy, did good in small deeds, and gave the world the best she had. Continue reading ‘Be kind anyway, so Mother Teresa’
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