Saturday, September 18, 2021
On a scrap of paper found today, in my mother's handwriting:
Salutation To The Dawn Look to this day, for it is the very life of life. In its brief course be all the verities and realities of your existence: The glory of action, The bliss of growth, The thunder of beauty. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes...
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DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS
Friday, near dusk: Itchy and Trubbles moved cautiously along Brick Street, sticking to the patch of grass next to St. B's school playground. They each climbed one of the Linden trees just outside the fence. Both of these advance scouts observed the same things: their Backyard Habitat was ready to...
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Friday, September 17, 2021
DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS
(How the grandmother, leader of the Last Door Troop, got her name.) Long ago, in a habitat far, far away, a pup was born to the troop leader's mate. The infant was small, her birth a bit too soon, and so she was named Mini. But Mini was alert and eager to learn, and was soon poking her head above...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021
"NOBLESSE OBLIGE"
Mother said that once after she'd had a strange conversation with some snooty woman in the J.C. Penneys where we'd gone shopping for school clothes. I couldn't understand why mother was so polite to her after the woman had reached in front of her to grab something practically out of her hand. I...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021
SCHOOL DAYS
My fourth grade teacher was an older woman. Mrs. Mock wore navy or black dresses with long sleeves, with white lacy collars and a cameo brooch. Like many older women in those days she wore heavy cotton stockings and those thick-heeled lace-up grandmotherly shoes. She wore her steel-gray hair in a...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
WRITE YOUR OWN STORY - (or not)
I've written at least three times lately about some of the shit I lived through in my younger life. I started a blog here, in the form of a letter to my mother to tell her things I'd never shared about my life after I left her home. The tone of it was way beyond what I'd thought it would be when the...
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A NEW, IMPOVED FANTASY
With apologies for bringing politics to the table: Yesterday, one day BEFORE the California recall election, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow reported a post they found on the Larry Elder (or GOP) web page. The right wing conservative organization posted chapter and verse about how hackers had stolen the...
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Monday, September 13, 2021
THIS IS SERIOUS CRAP!
Today a woman I know had a bit of a problem with a good old boy who works for her in a large company. He had failed to complete some task and was quite hostile to her as she called him about when she could expect him to do so. Then she told him he needed to get his Covid shots and submit the proof...
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Sunday, September 12, 2021
CONSPIRACY THEORY
When you're a kid and you've got siblings, you learn that conspiracies are dangerous. If your kid sis or brother was in on the great cookie raid while she was snapping beans on the back porch, then your secret is safe. You both know that if one of you breathes a whisper of it to Mom, there is...
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Saturday, September 11, 2021
TODAY'S 9-11 OBSERVANCE
I just heard President George Bush give a speech at the memorial for Flight 93. It was a touching tribute to the heroes of that flight and to our nation's response to the terrorist attack, the immediate coming together of all Americans. He also said it's different now that we now must deal with...
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