Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bless Their Hearts

photo: Charles Dharapak


The man is dull to me. He might as well be a corporation in bodily form. Corporation: A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. In bodily form, corporeal. The photo is, at first glance, dull, too, but if I pay attention and really look, I see the man, his hair so like hair, embrace his wife, so like his wife. I see the backs of the heads of five sons, FIVE SONS! and I don't know what archetype that might be -- FIVE SONS! hair so like hair, dullness in corporeal form.

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10 comments:

  1. Ms. MoonJanuary 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM

    Seriously focused and seriously correct and seriously right. Amen.

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  2. AmyJanuary 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM

    I love that paying attention and really looking at him generates nothing more than an awareness of the most mundane details, and even those mundane details are hair "so like hair" or his wife "so like his wife." As if, in this case, even the most carefully noticed details are nothing but stand-ins for something real. Nice.

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  3. Lisa LilienthalJanuary 11, 2012 at 6:49 PM

    Actually, I think it's going to be "bless our hearts" if he gets elected!

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  4. Steve ReedJanuary 12, 2012 at 12:57 AM

    I couldn't agree more! Watching him is like watching a board meeting.

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  5. blogzillyJanuary 12, 2012 at 5:04 AM

    In the end, it doesn't matter what Muppet takes the position. That's the sad truth of the current state of the actual role of the President.

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  6. colleenJanuary 12, 2012 at 6:05 AM

    I hate to point out that he is more "MODERATE" than other candidates from his party - (esp. after your post) but that is the sad state of affairs of what's become of the Republican party in this country. Believe it or not, I'm thinking that he may not get enough support from his own party because of his "moderate" positions.. if you can call them that. I hope we all survive.....

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  7. Kathleen ScottJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM

    At least there's something under the hair, in contrast to our governor, Rick Perry, whose magnificent main covers air.

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  8. 37paddingtonJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:40 AM

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  9. LeslieJanuary 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    My friend who has MS told me that Romney's wife has MS, too. I can't imagine the pressures of political life along with the battle of chronic illness. I always think of this when I see photos of them...

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  10. shelahJanuary 14, 2012 at 9:25 AM

    starlee kine (one of my favorite "this american life" contributors, for her story about consulting phil collins on how to write a breakup song -- http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/339/break-up)recently tweeted:

    "Mitt Romney's sons are just so Malcovich, Malcovich, no?"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/fashion/the-romney-brothers-advance-fathers-iowa-campaign.html?_r=1&hp

    but that joke is only funny if you've seen "being john malkovich."

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