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[ninjaslug]

Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy. Mix the bitter with the sweet in death and life. Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled

Comments

[madamruppy]

*sniffle*

[flaviarassen]

Ok - why post this today?

[ninjaslug]

Was watching Ken Burns' Baseball ;-)

Sometimes a bad idea. :)

[lizs18]

Oh wow, I'm not even into sports (or really Jesse Jackson as a speaker - as a committed politician I love him) and this totally choked me up!

[nova_sonya]

I adore Ken Burns' Baseball, especially inning 8 with the Jimi Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner. I keep hoping there will "extra innings".

[ninjaslug]

The 7th inning was on last night, and it was an excellent alternative to women's figure skating.

Jackie had a quote about Ebbet's field. I was actually looking for that quote, but came across this one instead.

I practically cried my way through the show.