| November 16, 2008 | | | | | Feedback | | | Calendar | | | Archives |
As we get ready to bid green goodbye for several months, the ecosystem on this tree trunk caught my eye from the basement office.
November is rainy and dark, but after the buzz of the election and our fun trip to La, I am annoyingly chipper at work.
I'm not too bummed out by the passing of Prop 8 in Californina, because sometimes failure is more galvanizing than success, and this looks to be one of those times. The protests around the country are the beginning of a new civil rights movement. Andrew Sullivan's blog is a good place for photos and commentary on the new movement.
A little late getting the November Mix out there. Fun new covers of old songs by Joni Mitchell, Donovan, and Tim Hardin. One more item to add to the Louisiana trip documentation. Memory correction. My sisters amended two memories I've had since childhood. One is that my Great Aunt Carmella, when a black priest was assigned to her parish in Grosse Tete, refused to receive communion any more. Ingrid says she remembers Aunt Carmella working it out with her conscience and deciding she could handle getting the waver from a black priest. The second is that I remember my father saying that a catholic could never be elected president. Claudia says that she remembers my father getting friends to help him out of bed and get to the polls to vote for Kennedy even though he didn't think he could win. He died about two weeks later. I'm noting these things here for future reference by Britten and Melanie and Elizabeth and Mark and... |