This afternoon, at the annual Heart of the Beast May Day Parade, the obvious salute at the end of the regular parade was to “Grandmas and Grandpas” (Click on photos to enlarge them) . It was an especially nice, and particularly pertinent, touch to a topic that has been much on my mind in recent […]
UPDATE: June 2, 2013: In this post, reference is made to a 100 question state-wide test on North Dakota taken by the author at Sykeston High School in 1957. A post specifically about the test, including an answer key and more related information is here. The May 9 post also includes two assessments of the […]
Today was the 10th annual Diversity Day at Jefferson High School in Bloomington MN. I’ve been to the last six. Today did not have the annual outdoor fun-run between Jefferson and rival Kennedy due to inclement weather. Snow in May is not impossible here, but it is unusual. It was unpleasant enough to force most […]
About 40 of us gathered at the Gandhi Mahal Retaurant last evening, May 1, to Reflect On World Peace Through Law. The event was one of those that just came together; in this case, less than three weeks. Law Day has been a part of the American tradition since at least 1958, when President Eisenhower […]
Dr. Schwartzberg video interview on his career as peacemaker, filmed May 13, 2014, at his office at the University of Minnesota January 18, 2014: Post about Joe Schwartzberg’s new book, Transforming the United Nations System November 9, 2013: See important update at the end of this post. Related: See Joe Schwartzberg Affirmation of Human Oneness […]
Tonight I was at the meeting where my wife, Cathy, completed the last of many terms as our Homeowners Association President, and before that on this Association Board, and another before that. She left the Board only because she’d done more than her fair share over many years. There was no competitor, and no one […]
Last Friday my second post about the aftermath of the Boston Marathon came shortly after the identity of the suspects in the bombings were given faces and names. Subsequent there have been tens of thousands of words about, especially, the one surviving suspect in the case, a true-blue young “Caucasian” (white, in other words), from […]
UPDATE April 20 5:30 a.m.: This overnite post from Just Above Sunset sums the situation in Boston and America as well as anything I’ve read. It is long, but well worth reading. Just Above Sunset, by a blogger in Hollywood, is always worth reading. * Back in the summer of 1997, I was visiting the […]
Yesterday morning, before 9 a.m., I was at the gym exercising at my usual place. Behind me, visible in the mirror, were two women, exercising beside each other and quite loudly chatting. One of them mentioned to the other that her husband was in Boston, running the Marathon, checking in from time to time. A […]
I first published at this space on March 25, 2009, four years and now-708 posts ago. If you do the math, that’s about one post every two days – far more than I ever anticipated. Lately, there’s been a lull in the action: 7 posts in the last 30 days; one for every four. The […]