Being There – The on-going quest of Fatherhood

Sunday, 21 June 2009, 9:04 | Category : Barack Obama, Culture, People
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Barack Obama and I share a key identity in common -being shaped by the absence of our fathers. Though his father’s absence was more literal than mine, I still mull over which has the deepest impact: physical absence or emotional absence. I remember Joan Baez saying, the worst kind of loneliness is the loneliness of [...]

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Sunday, 14 June 2009, 20:47 | Category : Books, Election, Fashion and Style, holidays, Persian
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Correction: June 21 is Father’s Day! . Earlier, I posted June 14 – But I still dig the video. The holiday was started in Spokane, Washington, June 19, 1910. Sonora Smart wanted to celebrate the single parent who was her father after hearing a Mother’s Day sermon in chruch. William Jackson Smart lost his wife [...]