Tuesday, June 16, 2009
How we met
"Now, how did we meet?" Yvette likes me to sit next to her recliner and hold her hand so she can start every conversation with that question. She NEVER tires of hearing how I walked into a room full of young ladies, spied her at her table, and asked her to dance. She asks me to tell how she fell in love with me & when I finish, she wants to hear it again. And again. And again.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Yesterday was a better day as we all recovered from a bout with Mom's recalcitrant colon. We had visits from Fuzz & San describing a wonderful vacation with family in Acapulco and Rob, Alicia & Bry bringing too much food & lots of teasing, oral jousting & laughs. Then Mom & I laid down on her bed to watch a (mediocre) HBO production about Churchill & WWll. I watched the tube while Mom petted me. Lovely.
Issues we never solve
"Founding Brothers" by Ellis describes the feeling of the South during the formation of the United States: Blacks (slaves) were not spoken of as human; so the South gave voice and sentiment to the ill feelings of whites toward blacks, an attitude that has affected the mentality of whites everywhere but particularly in the South and seems destined never to go away.
Taxes are one of the issues that ignited the American Revolution ( Boston Tea Party). It is reasonable that people pay their taxes so their governments can provide services. Will they ever stop bitching about taxes and find ways to avoid paying them?
This morning's Chronicle headlined the murder of the "abortion doctor" as he attended church. The nominee to the Supreme court will be faced with questions about her attitude toward Roe vs Wade; pro-life pickets have already lined up outside the White House. The abortion issue will always create a crisis.
Anti-Semitism, born soon after the crucifiction, has always been with us. I think of it as a form of ethnic cleasing matched in history by the Armenians, Bosnians, cultures in Africa and Asia. If it is not one place, it will be in another, forever.
Vietnam War. Americans cannot admit that we lost it---lots of reasons but no matter, we lost it. And we'll never admit it.
Attitudes toward homophobia are making progress with grudging acceptance of same sex marriage, but sentiment toward homosexuality and lesbianism, in general, show few signs of change.
Cheating in school, in the workplace, and in marriage has become the norm in our society. It is wrong but it goes on anyway; the watchwords are "Don't get caught."
Taxes are one of the issues that ignited the American Revolution ( Boston Tea Party). It is reasonable that people pay their taxes so their governments can provide services. Will they ever stop bitching about taxes and find ways to avoid paying them?
This morning's Chronicle headlined the murder of the "abortion doctor" as he attended church. The nominee to the Supreme court will be faced with questions about her attitude toward Roe vs Wade; pro-life pickets have already lined up outside the White House. The abortion issue will always create a crisis.
Anti-Semitism, born soon after the crucifiction, has always been with us. I think of it as a form of ethnic cleasing matched in history by the Armenians, Bosnians, cultures in Africa and Asia. If it is not one place, it will be in another, forever.
Vietnam War. Americans cannot admit that we lost it---lots of reasons but no matter, we lost it. And we'll never admit it.
Attitudes toward homophobia are making progress with grudging acceptance of same sex marriage, but sentiment toward homosexuality and lesbianism, in general, show few signs of change.
Cheating in school, in the workplace, and in marriage has become the norm in our society. It is wrong but it goes on anyway; the watchwords are "Don't get caught."
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