The equipment van idled in the players' parking lot at Citi Field on Monday, loaded with bats and balls and hopes and dreams, bound for Port St. Lucie, Fla. Sandy Alderson, the Mets' general manager, will follow soon, with his golden retriever, Buddy, by his side.
Their entrepreneurial dreams bind them together.
And he understood early that Americans try to liberate themselves from history, to float free from it, because part of the so-called American dream, bound up with fantasies of starting over, is the escape from time and mutability into a purely sybaritic present.
The dreams are bound by you.
President Obama weighed in with a speech the week after the attack, urging Americans to "remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together".
On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to "expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together".
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.
"Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations," the President said, "to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together".
It was one of the more powerful addresses that Mr. Obama has delivered as president, harnessing the emotion generated by the shock and loss from Saturday's shootings to urge Americans "to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully" and to "remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together".
Speech extracts * "Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together".
"Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame," he said, "let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together".
