Isabel Losada - my hero

Many thanks to my friend Chris Rudge, who lent me her copy of a wonderful book called 'A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: For Tibet With Love', by Isabel Losada. This was a new discovery for me and I have now ordered my own copy of this inspirational book. The title was compelling enough and the book exceeded my expectations. Isabel went on an amazing journey as she attempted (and still does) to change a bit of the world. See her websites at http://www.isabellosada.com/ and http://www.actfortibet.org.

Music can make you feel very young or very old!

Yesterday I read about Cyndi Lauper launching her True Colors Tour (see http://www.hrc.org/truecolors//). I know so many of her songs, and this made me feel good... I also found the words to her classic hit True Colors and was reminded of how excellent they are:

I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

But then today I read that Kris Kristofferson is 70 years old! This hardly seems possible - I used to love his music and also seeing him in A Star Is Born. Wow!

Diversity in US politics

What a pleasure to read the following introduction to an article:

"WASHINGTON — History in the making: The first woman may well be elected president in 2008. Unless the first black, the first Mormon, the first Hispanic, the first Italian-American, the first thrice-married man or the first person over 70 is elected instead.
After 218 years and 42 presidents — all of them white and male — the field of White House hopefuls this time includes credible candidates whose race, gender, ethnicity, religion or personal history probably would have ruled them out in the past..."

Read the whole article at http://tinyurl.com/yu4e7w.

The article is not entirely positive, since polls indicate many Americans not comfortable with the choice facing them. However, the overall trend is encouraging.

Of course, so many candidates who break the mould is unfortunate for each of them as individuals - Hillary Clinton must be pretty upset at how things have turned out!