Overnight: “The Real Loss Now“. * A letter writer, a health care worker, responding to Saturday’s post, “Ruthless Now” lamented the instant national pivot to the Supreme Court issue at the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at the same time as we collectively seem to forget 200,000 Covid-19 deaths now reached in the United […]
Late yesterday afternoon I was driving down a street in our near neighborhood, and saw a vivid sight, inadequately captured by my camera in this snapshot: An hour or so later I first heard the news of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Overnight came my favorite commentary on national events, Just Above Sunset, “Ruthless […]
Sunday’s Opinion section had a very interesting commentary by Mike Miles. More below in “The Bus”. First: In Minnesota, absentee voting begins on Friday, Sep 18. All details are at the website of the Minnesota Secretary of State. For other states, The Washington Post provides what seems to be an excellent and easily used link, […]
Postnote Sep 15, 2020: Just Above Sunset “Only Science”. from Greg Sep 15, seen in MinnPost: Megafires. It’s a beautiful day here in the Twin Cities. At mid-afternoon, the temp was 69. bright sunshiny day. I visited the historic Dowling Community Garden in south Minneapolis. The scenery is typical near-fall flowers and foliage. Summer is […]
Today is 9-11, 19 years after 9-11-01. I took a photo of the Twin Towers when they were just opening, at the end of June, 1972. 2,977 died on 9-11-01. The death toll from Covid-19 so far is nearing 200,000 on this date. At Shanksville memorial today the President noted “radical Islamist terrorists” and the […]
Earlier this week, on Labor Day, we had one of our periodic Zoom family gatherings. My sister asked me a question that was hard to answer on spur of the moment. I took a stab at it with the below letter, which I sent the next day and in which you might have an interest […]
Sep. 10, 2020, from The Washington Post, comments from readers on school opening. * Sep 8, 2020: Today, students at the Middle School. First time since March. Not until the end of this week will anyone have any real notion of how many students will actually report in this time of Covid-19. Similarly, only the […]
A friend in LaMoure County ND saw my recent post featuring Uncle Vincent’s mailbox, and in part replied: “As a member of the LaMoure Farmers Market, I remember him bringing onions and a few other vegetables to the market to sell.” This brought to mind a memory or two of Vince, who died five years […]
An idea for Labor Day weekend…. The week just passed, I was involved in three Zoom meetings. Another is scheduled for Labor Day. In my world, Zoom seems to have become the paradigm for the future. Yesterday I got to thinking back to a film I had seen at some staff workshop way back in […]
“Where are you?”, I asked my daughter when she answered the phone on Sunday morning. “At school.” “I’m at Caribou. Can I stop by for a couple of minutes?” “Sure, but I’m busy.” I dropped by and rendezvoused for a very short visit. And for sure she was busy. I borrowed one of her Grandpa’s […]