The Minnesota Orchestra Managements full page ad in the Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune ominously said: “Eight days left….” Today is Thursday. That must mean there are four days left, which means next Monday is the day. According to the folks who approved the copy for the ad, anyway. I wonder how I’d vote, if in […]
Before April 12, 2013, I can recall only one time ever entering the imposing near-40 year old Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis MN. Simply, I’ve never been a resident of Hennepin County, Minnesota’s largest. I go there often for various things, including every Sunday for Church, but I’m not a resident. That single visit […]
NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND FREQUENT VISITORS TO THIS SITE. PLEASE SEE NOTE AT THE END OF THIS POST. Enroute to Mass at Basilica of St. Mary this morning, Cathy, my wife, told me that the annual parish picnic was today. That was news to me, though I usher at the Church. But they’re always fun. […]
The word in the subject line, “exorcising”, is not misspelled, and the quotation marks around “Power” are intended. This morning’s Minneapolis Star Tribune had as it’s primary front page story, “[Minnesota] Orchestra board firm in face of the risks”. The story runs 36 column inches and (as of 9:30 a.m.) if it is in the […]
As I write, Secretary of State John Kerry is testifying to a Senate Committee on the Presidents request to Congress regarding response to the contention that the Syrian Government has used Chemical Weapons against its own people. I strongly support the Presidents request for debate, and I have written my U.S. Senators and Congresswoman about […]
Sunset August 31 was 8:02 p.m. CDT in rural Ashby MN. At that time I went outdoors to try to catch the moment in a snapshot: (click to enlarge any photo) (A small album of additional photos is on Facebook, here.) Behind me, indoors in the small farm house, now a home and retreat place […]
MOST RECENT UPDATE with comments at end of this post July 11, 2014. Most recent blog post Dec 4, 2014 (see below) COMMENTS to dick_bernardATmsnDOTcom. This originated as “The Minnesota Orchestra Lock-Out: “Push” coming rapidly to “Shove”, published on August 30, 2013. This is the permanent “Filing Cabinet” for subsequent information relating to the Minnesota […]
This column speaks of politics, but not about parties, or issues, or positions. Rather, it is about process. This relates, also, to the previous two posts. Regardless of your ideology, I’d encourage you to read on, and at least consider what follows. Change in any long term habit is difficult. I doubt there would be […]
Related Post: August 27, 2013 Highly recommended book (still in print): Why We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King, published 1964, about the year 1963. PRE-NOTE: This is a very long post (about 10 times the length of a typical post at this space), but (in my opinion) worth your time and your own reflection […]
Tomorrow is the actual anniversary of the “March on Washington” August 28, 1963 – it was a Wednesday then, too. It occurred to me that almost all attention is paid to that day itself, in Washington, and that of the then-population of the United States perhaps one in 1,000 people were there. The heavy lifting […]