by Sarah Failin
Last night I dreamed of Alaska
Just like I’d never leave, I knew the song
A young girl with eyes like an iceberg,
it all seems like yesterday, not far away.
Icy chill the arctic breeze
all of nature wild and free
this is where I long to be,
Wasilla bonita
And when the native man drums
the sun still wouldn't shine,
rings in my ears and shut my eyes,
my Aleutian lullaby
I fell in love with some Eskimo
Blizzard winds carried on the bergs,
I barely heard
Txin Yaktakuq.
I prayed that the days would last
they went so fast
I want to be where the moose walk the streets.
When it’s time for napping you can watch them stroll by.
Beautiful beasts, with no cares in this world,
where a girl loves to hunt and the hunted,
run …like hell
Last night I dreamed of my Eskimo
It all seems like yesterday, not far away
Icy chill the arctic breeze
all of nature wild and free
this is where I long to be,
Wasilla bonita
And when the native man drums
the sun still wouldn't shine,
ring through my ears and shut my eyes,
my Aleutian lullaby
La la la la la la la
Txin Yaktakuq
La la la la la la la
Txin Yaktakuq
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Reading is Fundamental....or Is It?
Like everyone, I was drawn to the Couric-Palin interview. What a great example of life imitating Saturday Night Live. Of course, in the real interview, we learned that Sarah Palin reads everything, everything that comes across her desk. So many publications she can't name one, not even the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. Published Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, the paper covers all news essential to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Including reports of foreign Russians wandering about town.
I suppose naming favored newspapers is kind of like naming a favorite song. You know so many, you sing so many in the shower, you can't name one Reading, like singing, is overwhelming. But is it fundamental?
Now I'm no Hockey Mom, or Joe Six Pack, but I barely read myself. I mean, I get a paper delivered to my door daily. I read the front cover on the subway. But to be honest, I sometimes catch my eye wandering to someone else's paper on the train. "HO NO" and "STRAY ROD" are much more interesting than the financial tables.
But who needs to read the paper. We have the internet. Everything I need to know about life, the Bush Doctrine, eggs, global warming and Israel can be found on Wikipedia. Anything else can be found on IMDB or Hulu. Yes, occasionally one might get stuck on CNN, CNBC, WSJ, Marketwatch, TheAtlantic, Politico, DailyKos, Slate, NYTimes, Yahoo!Finance, Alaskan Independence Party (akip.org) and a few other entertainment sites. That's not really reading though (and by the way, Google is not making us Stoopid). But let's face it, these sites are not available in Alaska. The internet was cut off by the oil pipelines.
So is it her fault she can't read? Her desk is piled with newspapers. She's got oil blocking her internet and salacious headlines to watch out for. What more can we expect of our potential president? Afterall, I don't think in this day and age, with all that is going on with the economy, the war, and Russia, that any candidate should be spending time reading.
I suppose naming favored newspapers is kind of like naming a favorite song. You know so many, you sing so many in the shower, you can't name one Reading, like singing, is overwhelming. But is it fundamental?
Now I'm no Hockey Mom, or Joe Six Pack, but I barely read myself. I mean, I get a paper delivered to my door daily. I read the front cover on the subway. But to be honest, I sometimes catch my eye wandering to someone else's paper on the train. "HO NO" and "STRAY ROD" are much more interesting than the financial tables.
But who needs to read the paper. We have the internet. Everything I need to know about life, the Bush Doctrine, eggs, global warming and Israel can be found on Wikipedia. Anything else can be found on IMDB or Hulu. Yes, occasionally one might get stuck on CNN, CNBC, WSJ, Marketwatch, TheAtlantic, Politico, DailyKos, Slate, NYTimes, Yahoo!Finance, Alaskan Independence Party (akip.org) and a few other entertainment sites. That's not really reading though (and by the way, Google is not making us Stoopid). But let's face it, these sites are not available in Alaska. The internet was cut off by the oil pipelines.
So is it her fault she can't read? Her desk is piled with newspapers. She's got oil blocking her internet and salacious headlines to watch out for. What more can we expect of our potential president? Afterall, I don't think in this day and age, with all that is going on with the economy, the war, and Russia, that any candidate should be spending time reading.
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