SIXTY-SEVEN
As a mom...
On p. 67 of GR, Sarah continues to discuss her days as a young mother and a neophyte…I was going to say "politician," but I will say "stateswoman" instead.
She writes, "While I served on the council [The Wasilla City Council], a local politician asked me to cut a radio ad for his campaign. I liked his conservative message and said I'd help. Into the KMBQ radio studio I brought my hungry, grumpy baby in a Snugli, and the only way to calm Willow was to inconspicuously nurse her while we rolled tape. I acted like I didn't see the shocked look on the politician's face as he turned red and pretended it didn't bother him at all."
What a charming and striking tableau this is, surely one of the finest in a volume that is replete with memorable and hearty-warming scenes.
However, I believe that the seemingly simple vignette contains a lesson of very profound didactic depth and power. Consider what Sarah does here: She nurses and she speaks. These two acts may be captured and encapsulated in the following Latin expression:
NUTRIVIT DIXITQUE: She nourished and she spoke.
What a fecund and true and veritable bond and link there is between these two words, these two concepts, these two realities!!!
Mom and Teacher!! A glorious vocation and calling this is. It is one that was first traced in its inchoate incunabula in those far-off days of the late 80s and early 90s in a remote corner of the Last Frontier, the Great Land. It is now being made manifest to all of America, indeed to the entire world, as the soaring Wasilla hockey mom thunders forth her American Eagle's message of Ordered Liberty and Freedom to the four winds of the nation and the globe.
What was it that she said on p. 51 of GR about the birth of her firstborn, Track? She said, "On April 20, 1989, my life truly began. I became a mom." The very essence of her motherhood is beautifully and succinctly expressed here.
As a mom she has fearlessly and intrepidly denounced barack obama and all his foul schemes and plans to "fundamentally transform" America.
As a mom she has tirelessly sounded the tocsin and warning bell north and south, east and west across this land of ours: Arise, citizens, arise, and defend the land you love!
As a mom she has eloquently called us all back to the virtues and principles that have made our land great in the past, and can recall and RESTORE her to greatness in the future.
As a mom she has sounded the trumpet that is the harbinger and herald of the "dawn's early light," of a true American resurrection and restoration and renaissance.
Has she not already nourished and inspired millions of us with the "milk" of truth and decency and liberty?!?
SARAH NOSTRA: NUTRIVIT DIXITQUE!!!
