PRENOTE: Monday Jan 25 is the International Day of Education Symposium, presented by UNESCO. Details here (scroll down to first item). I’m registered. * Call to Action: The last phrase of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, Nov. 18, 1863, says it all: “…government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the […]
The first event of Inauguration Day happened at about 5:30 p.m., a memorial to the now-400,000 Covid-19 deaths since last January. There were 400 lights, each signifiying one-thousand deaths. It was brief and very impressive. A nurse sang “Amazing Grace” – her singing has gone viral. Here’s tonight on YouTube. Note the second song at […]
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day, the Third Monday in January. MLK was born Jan. 15, 1929 and died by assassination Apr. 4, 1968, at the age of 39. I remember where I was when I heard of his death. I would guess you do, too. This is a good day to reintroduce six […]
The Inauguration of President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris is Wednesday January 20. If you are interested, check here. About noon today (Saturday) I took the short trip over to the Minnesota State Capitol, just to see what was happening in our state’s possible ‘war zone’ in the wake of The Capitol insurrection on the […]
Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Jeff in Burnsville MN, raising a concern with his legislator about the timeline for Covid-19 vaccine. I am reprinting his letter, and the legislators response with Jeff’s permission. NOTE TO READERS. Constituent letters are aways effective. Best to write to your own representatives at whatever level: your state legislator, […]
Initiating Post here. For your thought, consideration and conversation The day after the carnage at our nations Capitol Jan. 6, I was participating in a regular meeting of a group I’ve long been part. It was Zoom, of course, and there were ten or so of us. In the gathering time, I asked my colleagues […]
POST-NOTE Jan 15, 2021: Words seem irrelevant now, at least to a general audience. These words are written early Friday morning, Jan. 15, 2021. Inauguration Day for the President of the United States is January 20. Overnight came the most recent summary of what is happening in our country, and for those who actually read […]
I continue to update the Jan. 6 post. Check in once in awhile. * Last evening our neighbor, 91, called. He lives almost literally across the street. He lives alone, and he’d fallen twice and was in distress. We went over. It resulted in a 911 call and an ambulance trip to the hospital where […]
Overnight, Jan. 7, 2021, 6:40 a.m.: The Thinking Here, from Just Above Sunset, comments on the aftermath of Jan. 6. Personally, while I’ve not been a frequent visitor to D.C. I’d guess there have been more than a dozen trips there over the years, usually for several days, always visiting the federal area – an […]
For about 234 years now America, the United States, has been experimenting with citizen management of government. (It’s called “elections”.). I’ve been alive for about one-third of that time. We have survived so far. We are now testing Abraham Lincoln’s concern expressed at Gettysburg in 1863 – whether, or how, our nation will endure. We’ve […]