So. Who doesn't love, if not respect in some measure, Bono.
Anyone who takes the voice that fame often imparts and focuses it to change injustice has my support. I wondered, "does everyone think about what they would change if put in Bono's place? What change are we passionate about affecting on personal levels? Have we attempted anything? Pondering...
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i have always thought it wd be fab to be first lady.
what a freaking bully pulpit, and the makeover potential, well need i say more?
first i wd get coaching to learn to speak really WELL in public.
next I wd consult w/tom chad nate seth mike abt important issues besides my grandchildren.
then i wd get a giant grateful dead type RV and hit the road w/all my fam and friends to share my solutions to world problems
grilled cheese anyone?
joanE
Love Bono. I guess my soapbox would be poverty or women's rights in other countries. I just cannot handle hearing the de-humanizing horrors that women face around this world.
I'd stop writing crappy lyrics.
Dan
P.S. POP, last great album of a great band
I saw an interveiw with Bono where he was saying how he didn't really like christians because he never felt like he fit and they were judgemental, boring etc etc. Then when he started his AIDS campaigne, he went to all these huge churches to try and get them to do something. To his great surprise, they actually DID get involved. Then he said he had to change his mind about Christians.
I really liked that. It isn't always easy to change your own mind about a preconcieved idea even when there is evidence to the contrary.
I also liked Bono's honesty. He went to Africa and saw the plight of teh people there but didn't do anything for several years because he just felt like the issue was too huge for him to handle.
Personally, I would definitly get into women's rights- not in America, good God we've got enough, but in third world countries and places where women are REALLY suffering. How can I complain standing next to a Sudanese or Ethiopian woman?
wow faithy, you're so mature and global...
jEk
For me, it's abandoned children. I just feel overrwhelmed at where i could start. The strange thing is - I'm not a "kid person", there is something in the broad scope of abandonment that mortifies me. I can't stand the thought nof a little onw being without the safe cocoon of healthy parents.
B-roo, my little brother works for an organization out of San Diego called "Invisible Children" that deals with Ugandan children being kidnapped and forced to take up arms by a rebel group bent on overthrowing the Ugandan government. Talk about being without the safe cocoon of healthy parents...
acc -is there a way I could get info re: Invisible Children?
go to my blog and click on the link . . .
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