Little Iggy's First Job!

As of April 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Steps: 2,404,440
Miles: 1008.18 - 1016 is the halfway point!
Miles to Virgina: 17.82

As you know, OCHAs start their careers at an early age. Little Iggy, even being a born in to a upper-middle class couple, will be treated no differently. Harold and Delores insisted when he was 2 days old, he get a job. Diligently, he read the classified ads for minutes on end. And then he found the perfect job.


Little Iggy will be a stand-in for the regular OCHAs

He auditioned and was found to be a complete natural, due to his Nascar instincts, for "Lefty", but he will need many long minutes of rehearsal in order to stand-in for "Righty".

Happy Easter

Help Peter Cottontail get to the eggs so he can give them to the little boys and girls.

Words That Stand on Their Own

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

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And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!




When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

"Reincarnation" by Wallace McRae…

"What does reincarnation mean?"
A cowpoke ast his friend.
His pal replied, "It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.

They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life's travails."

"The box and you goes in a hole,
That's been dug in the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted 'neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin' on
Yer transformation ride."

"In a while the grass'll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Til some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now's become
Yer vegetative bower."

"The posey that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed.
But some is left that he can't use
And so it passes through.
And finally lays upon the ground.
This thing, that once wuz you"

"Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this on the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life, and death, and such,
And come away concludin': Slim
You ain't changed, all that much."