• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball • His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

• He doesn’t drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• He wears $1,500 Hart Schaffner Marx suits

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

Original article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece

I first heard of the Charter for Compassion from the TED talks. Karen Armstrong sent out a wish to push compassion into the majority of human acts, using religion as a tool to foster that sort of love.

“The Charter will show that the voice of negativity and violence so often associated with religion is the minority and that the voice of compassion is the majority”

http://charterforcompassion.com/

Ted Talk: Karen Armstrong

You can’t fake this kinda stuff…

It was an amazing, historic night.  Thanks to everyone for coming and thanks to Macrae for the pictures.

Randal