This morning, Tuesday, Sep 24, was a perfectly clear weather day. At 7 a.m. CDT, I was heading east on a local street, and was greeted by a spectacular, albeit blinding sunrise straight ahead. The Autumn Equinox was almost exactly two days earlier, so what I experienced made sense. Nature is, as nature is. Humanity’s […]
46 days. The National portal for all the states: Vote.org Today is the first day for Minnesotans to vote in the 2024 election. The website is here, If you are a Minnesotan, I would recommend that you download and print a copy of your ballot. The contents vary, of course, dependent on where you live, […]
I’ve printed out my sample ballot for Nov 5 2024. At the beginning are listed nine candidates for President/Vice-President of the United States. I don’t think this is especially unusual. In addition to the usual Democrat and Republican are the usual others as Libertarian, Green, Socialist and others, including “write in”. Rarely does some maverick […]
September 5 I footnoted the following suggestion in another post: Yesterday, came a link to a 1978 commencement speech at Harvard by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . I printed out the 16 pages, read them, went to the “Reflections on Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address” from October 26, 2020, and also looked up Solzhenitsyn’s wiki-bio. This is not light […]
Friday I was at a meeting of the Roseville MN Optimists (Roseville Optimists ). I’m not a member, but came as a guest, interested because the program was a group of Ukraine students, here for a short visit under the auspices of YouLEAD (Youth Leadership Engagement and Development Program: YouLEAD. This was a large meeting […]
See important postnote #2 at the end of this post. The ‘meat’ of this post is the link in the next line. But see the postnotes as well. This link, Peace Race (1) (3), opens to a very interesting 8-page commentary on a very noteworthy citizen initiative through the 1960s calling attention to, and mobilizing […]
25 years ago – it was April 20, 1999, I was returning from a meeting and a bulletin came on the car radio about a school shooting in Littleton, Colorado. I paid attention: my son and family lived in Littleton. The day and week unfolded. The incident was at Columbine High School. I had no […]
POSTNOTE Sep 23: Final post related to November 5 here (Sep 20, 2024) Related: An excellent commentary from John Rash in Saturday Minnesota Star Tribune on “The facts on Afghanistan from a Minnesotan who was at the center of it all.” Here is the article in pdf: John Rash 8 31 24 STrib Afghan. Rash […]
“Never underestimate a public school teacher.” Tim Walz, acceptance speech at the DNC Convention 2024. Tuesday after Labor Day is the traditional start to the school year in Minnesota. While there are some deviations from that norm, most pre-K-12 kids will be back in school on Tuesday. This means approximately 50,000,000 youngsters. Another 5 million […]
A longtime friend of mine alerted me to the following very long article about the Mendota Tribe in the August 18, 2024 St. Paul Pioneer Press. I prefer to simply let the article speak for itself. The locus of this tribe, Mendota Mdewakonton Dakota Tribal Community, is not far from where I live, in the […]