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If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper - that makes this country work.
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I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
I woke up at 3:30 AM and decided it was a blessing. I got up at 4AM and fed the dogs and took them out and drank a reheated cup of black coffee and ate Irish oatmeal with plumped up raisins.
My dogs climbed back into bed with my husband while I scraped frost off my car. I drove to the pool for the early bird swim. The place was packed but luckily I had a spot sharing a lane with a lady I know.
On my way home I spotted a young man, maybe 25 years old, with his border collie on a leash crossing Carter Ave from the old Saint Theresa's Church lawn. He was bare-legged in flip flops wearing just a gray bathrobe. Wow!
Some spiritual or folkloric traditions view 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM (sometimes called the "witching hour") as a time of heightened spiritual energy, divine messages, or a call to prayer
A group of huge sweaty naked men took over my house. I was upstairs reading and when I came down I ran out of the house and called the police. This nightmare woke me up at 3:30 AM
