A few brief musings from Oct. 31. One month ago today, October 7, 2023, the carnage occurred ‘outside the walls’ of Gaza in Israel. I wrote about it on October 8, here, and early on (in a note on Oct. 13) said I’d comment more on the one month anniversary, which is today. The latest […]
Please see endnote as well. Halloween eve it snowed overnight, the first of the season, certainly not the last. Something we look forward to, and then wonder why…. Here’s the view from the garage at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It brings to mind another Halloween: October 31, 1991. I was in Hibbing at the time. Halloween […]
There is a great plenty of difficult news out there in our world. This is an opportunity to take a refreshing and very enjoyable break. Last Sunday evening we spent a great couple of hours with the Quebec music group Le Vent du Nord. There was a full house at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis. […]
PRENOTE: Some comments have been added at the very end of the Oct 8 post about Gaza. Here. I expect to do a followup post on this topic on Nov.. 4. Your contribution is solicited. * In a couple of months I’ll mark 24 years retired after a 36 year career in public education. Nonetheless, […]
PRENOTE: I have added some postnotes to last weeks post on Gaza. Please take a look. * Yesterday we, along with several hundred others, attended the annual breakfast of an organization which does very good work, Fresh Energy. We have contributed substantially to the work of Fresh Energy since 2016. Fresh Energies mission is “to […]
POSTNOTE 6 FEBRUARY 6, 2024: Followup posts: Nov 4, Nov 8, Nov 18, Dec 10, Dec 25, 2023, Feb 5 2024 POSTNOTE 5 October 24, 2023: I continue to seek some kind of reasonably reliable information about what, exactly, Gaza is. Here’s something from NBC News which seems reasonably reliable and helpful. POSTNOTE 4 October […]
This is an ‘odd couple’ post, consisting of two recent editorials in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and an update on a previous post. Three different topics. First, I completed reading Cassidy Hutchinson’s memoir, “Enough“, and I summarize it by adding to my initial post about it, here. Succinctly, the book was a very good use […]
In December, 2003, and again in March, 2006, I had two opportunities to visit wonderful ordinary people in the country of Haiti. In 2008, four disastrous tropical storms hit Haiti in August and September. Two years later, Haiti advocates grieved together as Haiti suffered through the unimaginable. tragedy of the earthquake of January, 2010; thence […]
POSTNOTE 3 – October. 6, 2023: I completed the book, Enough, by Cassidy Hutchinson, Wednesday, Oct. 4. It has become one of the unusual books that I read from cover to cover. There are many reviews, and it is not my intention to review the book, other than saying I found reading this 26 year […]
This post relates specifically and solely to a local school election in suburban St. Paul MN. It is my personal opinion, about my own school district: Dick Bernard 1. There are a large number of candidates for three school board seats. My personal preferred candidates: MELINDA DOLS, SATONIA MOORE SIMI PATNAIK These candidates, in my […]