Bobby Kennedy
Bobby
Bobby Kennedy spoke to millions both here in America and overseas about the need to improve the lives of the
poor, the dispossessed, and those discriminated against. Back in the 60s, he was able to project a better time
for millions both here and aboard. He and his brothers talked about Camelot, which was in juxtaposition to the
real world for most of the people in the world. Camelot will remain an ethereal dream unless we work toward
getting all of us closer to Camelot.
Those issues drove Bobby throughout his life, especially during the civil rights movement in the 60s. Randy
Pausch in his Last Lecture ,
essentially said the same thing, “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” Instead
of complaining about our cards, we all need to play what we possess in our endeavor to move toward Camelot for
all people.
Having danced with death, I realize that I must leave this world better than I found it. I cannot afford to
waste time and neither can you. We are all here for a finite period of time. Bobby’s life was cut short, but his
legacy lives on after him. Bobby said, “Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it
automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes
its own accounting to its children.”
We will all leave a legacy, which is how people will remember us. Choose wisely. Bobby taught us by his actions
and words what his legacy was and calls all of us to leave a legacy of caring for those in need.
This video is of Bobby speaking to a large crowd of blacks in Indianapolis, IN. He announced to the crowd the
death of Martin Luther King by an assassin.
VIDEO
Sadly, two months later, Bobby was assassinated. Despite the problems facing America in the 60s, Bobby spoke
caring to a country, which all too often didn’t care. That was a half century ago. Here we are again living in a
country divided over the same issues of our past: racism, poverty, and indifference to the needs of the
powerless. However, those in power in Washington are concerned about acquiring more power and more money. They
are discriminating and attempting to build walls. We all need to learn from the past and move toward Camelot.
What a Difference a Generation Makes
Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic
05/22/24
Field of Dreams
A Haunting Return
04/24/24
Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again
50th Mass Shootings in America This Year
02/16/24
Unexpected Events
Can Create Opportunities for Greatness
12/25/23
My Yin Yang World
Dreams vs. Reality
12/08/23
The Ripple Effect
An Either/Or Issue
11/01/23
Lawrence of Arabia...
A Mentor of Mine
10/11/23
My World of Xanadu
Another Personal Parallel Essay
09/20/23
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal
What My Teacher Taught Me
08/21/23
Trying Times
Testing Souls
09/23/22
Picking Mentors
It Will Change Your Life
09/09/22
An Important Teaching Moment
Joe and I Are Twins
08/10/22
My Place in the Universe
I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space
07/15/22
Our Reason for Being
Sweeping Down the Mightiest Walls
05/16/22
Grasping Reality
While My Clock Is Ticking
04/29/22
Diversity Visas
What’s That All About, Alfie?
04/24/22
Building Castles in the Sky
Pushing the Limits of Possibility
04/13/22
My Family in Myanmar:
A Sequel to What’s It All About
03/28/22
Ginger and I
What’s It All About and Why?
03/21/22
If Everything Around You Seems Dark…
Look Again. You May Be the Light.
02/26/22
My Personality Quirks…
I Have Several
02/16/22
My Dream of Diversity
In the Footsteps of Bobby
02/02/22
Diversity Is the Answer
But What Is the Question?
01/31/22
When I Become a Billionaire…
A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage
01/26/22
My Dreamland
During My Operation
01/19/22
A Reason for Being…
The Most Important Reason for My Being
12/31/21
Two Dreamers...
Discuss the Way the World Should Be
12/08/21
Archimedes and the Syracusia
It’s All About Dreaming
12/01/21
A New Ripple
And a Purposeful Life
10/27/21
Having a Purposeful Life
Another Sequel About Dreaming
10/20/21
Societal Dreaming
Delayed but Not Dashed
10/18/21
Miss Independent
"Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter"
10/15/21
A Dream Delayed
"Or a Dream Dashed"
10/13/21
My Takeaway
"From the Great Chicago Fire"
10/08/21
Ti Ti and Education
"Why Is Education Critical?"
10/04/21
What’s All This About Women?
“The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly”
10/01/21
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary….
“Ride, Boldly Ride”
09/27/21
Happy Birthday, Snow
Time To Remember
07/21/21
A Ngal Lay
My Great-Granddaughter
07/14/21
If They See the Goblin…
They Might Also See Planet X.
06/23/21
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen
Happy Birthday
06/02/21
Three Take-Aways
From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address
05/03/21
Problems Offer a Choice
Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge
04/23/21
Learning from Collecting
Written by a Collector of Treasures
04/16/21
Teaching Moments Today And Teaching Moments for the Future
03/15/21
Who Is That Lady in Yellow? A 21st Century Eppie
02/01/21
Stopping in the Woods While Dreaming Dreams
01/27/21
There are Facts… And There are Fake Facts.
01/20/21
Purposeful Lives On Steroids
01/13/21
A Secret About Life How To Be Successful
12/21/20
Remembering the Past Spring Follows Winter
12/02/20
The Importance of the Sound of Music… According to Nietzsche and Me
10/26/20
This Is an Addendum Ti Ti, the Bridge Builder
09/25/20
From Then to Now What a Difference Seven Years Has Made
09/23/20
Masks Matter… To Some
09/16/20
Two Poems By Two Ladies
09/14/20
There Is More to Dreaming… Than Just Dreaming
08/07/20
"Give Me a Place to Stand... And I Will Move the World.”
07/20/20
Regarding Dancing with Coronavirus Campbell’s Five Commandments
03/25/20
I Don’t Like Failing Modus Operandi
03/13/20
My Swan Song And My Family’s Swan Song
01/17/20
Perspective
What You See Is What You Get.
09/20/19
Another Déjà Vu
In the Arts and Philosophy
06/07/19
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Clarence Page
04/12/19
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Rod Stewart
04/10/19
Dreaming….
About My Moment in Time
03/11/19
One Moment in Time
Carpe Diem
03/04/19
Tintern Abbey
Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner
02/18/19
Light at the End of the Tunnel
However, the Tunnel is an Illusion
02/06/19
The Wall Issue
The True Value of a Wall
01/14/19
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice
To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It.
01/11/19
A New Year’s Eve
With a New Resolution for the Coming Year
12/31/18
It’s All About Family
I Agree with John Lewis
12/17/18
The Magnificent Seven…
My Dream Team
12/07/18
On Making Your Mark
And Leaving It
10/22/18
Rhythm of My Heart
Here and Abroad
10/03/18
Be a Dreamer....
And Never Quit Dreaming.
08/10/18
Dreaming
The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes
11/07/18
Lack of Leadership
In Turbulent Times
11/02/18
The Ripple Effect…
“…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.”
07/23/18
Ti Ti and Her Family
My Assistants in Myanmar
05/28/18
Forrester and Jamal
You and I
05/11/18
Dear PaPa Al.....
Dear Ti Ti
04/16/18
Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems…
A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar
04/06/18
The Question Is…
How Will You Be Remembered?
02/26/18
What Would You Attempt To Do
If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
02/21/18
An Age of Revolution
If We But Know What To Do With It
02/16/18
The Water Horse of Loch Ness
And Our Water Horses of Life
02/07/18
Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me
We Are the Incarnations of Bobby
01/31/18
Lesson Learned About Dreaming
I Learned from Bobby
01/22/18
Bobby the Runt
Turned into Bobby the Leader
01/17/18
My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life
My Perspective from My Twilight Years
01/05/18
America
As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It
12/25/17
Doing the Dance...
Fathoming the Unfathomable.
12/11/17
Lawrence of Arabia
One of My Mentors
10/06/17
Me and My Shrink
Dealing With What Drives Me
08/16/17
Ti Ti and I
A Most Haunting Relationship
08/04/17
The Benefit of Failed Dreams
The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron
06/19/17
Frobisher’s Quests
The Northwest Passage and Gold
05/31/17
Shrimp Can Whistle
"I dream things that never were and say, why not."
03/08/17
Kennedy Socks
Presidents and Camelot
02/20/17
I'm Hanging My Lantern
For All To See
12/23/16
We Shall Overcome
A Belief Amid Darkness
07/18/16
I am Don Quixote
But I Am Not from La Mancha
04/15/16
Could I Have This Dance...
For the Rest of My Life?
03/11/16
The Value of Dreaming
About My List of Dulcineas
02/12/16
Do You Have Any Suggestions...
On Planning My New Life?
05/18/13
Bobby Kennedy
Still Reaches Out to Us.
07/29/16
Rewriting History
To Fit Our Notions
04/22/16
Bobby or the Donald
Picking Mentors
03/14/16
Two Roads in the Wood
Choose Wisely
02/26/16
Revitalizing My Brain
After Winding Up in ICU
01/25/16
Doubling Down...
To Make Dreams Come True
10/19/15
It Is About How You Lead Your Life
Start With Refining Words
05/11/15
Dare to Dream
Even When Dreams are Delayed
01/09/15
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality
12/26/14
Serendipity...
Finding Without Looking
12/12/14
Wolverton Mountain
The Place Where Dreams Occur
09/26/14
Darkest Before Dawn
A Logical Disconnect that Is True
08/15/14
The Value of Dreaming
Instructions from My Cardiologist...
02/14/14
What Makes Me Tick
Finally, an Explanation
07/12/15
Lawrence of Arabia
A Mentor of Mine
10/18/13
Bonhoeffer—Crossing the Line...
Thank You: Dietrich, Bobby and Barack
11/20/12
Lean on Me
An Open Letter to My Grandson
11/11/11
Bobby and Barack
Election of Barack Obama
09/28/08