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...Tonight I went to my first (will it be my last and only?) dinner at the White House." With it was a note: "Thank you for bringing me back." Once back, she left her mark not on the White House, as did Jacqueline Kennedy, but on the land beyond...
Lady Bird never liked the term "beautification." What she was doing went beyond that, something to hold the land, bring grace and meaning to scarred lives. "You reporters come up with another word," she used to say. But nobody has yet. Maybe it was unnecessary because she was her own symbol, a woman very much in harmony with the natural world around her. She rafted down rivers, camped out in the national parks, studied ruins. She also founded what is now named the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center at the University of Texas...
...where Abdi and his elder brother Mohammed worked. One shot Mohammed in the forehead, killing him. When Abdi ran, another shot him in the spinal chord, paralyzing him from the chest down. Abdi says the killers wanted him to know why. They told him he was stealing South African land, taking South African money. They called him "kuwara" - nigger. "But they were black," says Abdi. "They were African, like...
...even nostalgically of my family and friends, my favorite sport teams, my suburban town, my happy childhood. It will always be the country I love, my country, because it is for better or worse entangled with me. More important than it’s being the “land of the free” is the simple, ineluctable fact that it is my home...
...with no family that I know of still in Mongolia, I returned for the archetypical soul-search that people my age often embark upon. I was elated, until I discovered that most Mongolians hate the Chinese. My daydream gave way to the fear of being a pariah in the land of my ancestors. Instead of straddling different cultures and consciously transcending the definitions of either, it seemed I would face an absence of choice through rejection by one culture...