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May23

Great story behind a really cool photo. Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head In the photo, Mr. Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed 5-year-old black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. The image has struck so many White House aides and visitors that, by popular demand, it stays put while others come and go… “I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again. Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated. “Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said. As Jacob patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped. “So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked. “Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said. (photo by Pete Souza via NYTimes.com)

Great story behind a really cool photo.

Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head

In the photo, Mr. Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed 5-year-old black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. The image has struck so many White House aides and visitors that, by popular demand, it stays put while others come and go…

“I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.

Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated.

“Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said.

As Jacob patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.

“So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.

“Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said.

(photo by Pete Souza via NYTimes.com)

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Melodic Caring Project streams personalized concerts to hospitalized kids On Friday, Dec. 2 at Seattle Children’s Hospital, 11-year-old Braydon Hutchison was crying. It wasn’t because of his leukemia, which kept him quarantined, or the nausea and vomiting that had made him sick all day. A musician he’d never met was playing a concert across town in his honor, calling out his name to the crowd. Braydon could see the live stream on his laptop from his hospital bed, and it finally moved him to tears. (reporting by Monica Guzman / photo courtesy of Melodic Caring Project via Digital Life)

Melodic Caring Project streams personalized concerts to hospitalized kids

On Friday, Dec. 2 at Seattle Children’s Hospital, 11-year-old Braydon Hutchison was crying. It wasn’t because of his leukemia, which kept him quarantined, or the nausea and vomiting that had made him sick all day. A musician he’d never met was playing a concert across town in his honor, calling out his name to the crowd. Braydon could see the live stream on his laptop from his hospital bed, and it finally moved him to tears.

(reporting by Monica Guzman / photo courtesy of Melodic Caring Project via Digital Life)

#music #kids #melodic caring project #technology

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“What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali

This is just great. Go tell a teacher “thanks” today.

In an interview, Mali talks about the impetus for writing this poem:

I recently found a journal entry that pinpoints the party at which a lawyer tried to belittle me for being a teacher; it was a New Year’s Eve party in 1997. Everything in that poem is the absolute truth except that it’s not what I actually said to him when he asked me what I make. I’m not that quick-witted. What I actually said to him was “twenty-four thousand dollars.”

You can check out more of Taylor Mali’s work at his website.

(via Redu, a project to rethink, reform and rebuild education)

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