(Photo from the BBC.)
The power of young people is shown to the world as the 30 year reign of dictator Hosni Mubarak comes to an end. The 21st century January 25th protests were a more peaceful echo of the Black Saturday of the 20th century.
President Obama just spoke of how the youth of Egypt has actively pursued a government that represented”[their] hopes, not [their] fears.” It is very inspiring to see that if we choose to, young people can change the world. It is perhaps the greatest trick the cynics ever pulled, to tell young Americans that the system is broken and populated by criminals and opportunists and that there is nothing to be done about it. Egyptians have proved that is not so, under circumstances much worse than here.
It reminds me of the words of John Green from his book “Looking for Alaska”:
When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
Congratulations, Egypt, on your new beginning.
late in posting, but on time in real life when it counts… my mother’s made to order birthday cake (lemon cake covered in purple fondant).
this monstrosity was created for ryan, a seven year old with a six flags fixation. the cake itself is chocolate, covered with homemade marshmellow fondant and vanilla buttercream icing (also from scratch). (shout-out to the 
