“…Everyone in this country should have good food and medication….” Snippet” of conversation overheard by passerby at local fitness club, March, 2019. See postnote, near the end of post. More on “the AGED” “below the fold”…. Please read the last paragraph. I am hoping that this post will provide lots of grist for conversation and […]
Mark you calendar: Tuesday, April 9, will be a marvelous 10th anniversary celebration of a great project, John Noltner’s “A Peace of My Mind”. You’re invited to the party in South Minneapolis. All details are here. My acquaintance with John goes back a number of years when we met at a meeting of the Minnesota […]
I write at 6 p.m. CDT on Sunday, March 24. I have followed the Russia matter very closely since the beginning, and I will continue to follow it closely in the future. Having said that, doing a search, I find I mentioned “Mueller” in blog posts in only three posts on two dates: 18 Dec […]
A special event in the Twin Cities. Tomorrow (March 20) 6 p.m. at the Weyerhaeuser Auditorium at St. Paul’s Landmark Center : ‘Myths, Legends and Epics’ through the lens of veterans’ experience All details here: Storytelling Day 2019
Yesterdays mayhem in Christchurch, New Zealand, overwhelms. Best I can do is to share an overnight e-mail from a group I highly respect, the Islamic Resource Group. You can read it here. My brief blog post, yesterday, Time for Ilhan, directly pertains, as well. If you are anywhere near the “camp” that I’m in: that […]
Thursday evening was dismal, weather wise, but I decided to make the crosstown trek over to First Unitarian Society to see a new film, “Time for Ilhan“. I knew no more about the film than the text of an e-mail from a mailing list a day or so earlier; Rep. Omar has been in the […]
POSTNOTE March 22, 2019: Golan Heights, etc. Read and reflect on “Not Thinking Things Through”, Just Above Sunset for the first day of Spring, 2019. It is an important piece for the conversation about the issue of Israel. I have found it dangerous to express opinions on the topic of Israel, but I need to […]
Tonight (Monday Feb. 25, 9 p.m.) and Thursday 8 p.m. : “MINNESOTA EXPERIENCE: JIM CROW OF THE NORTH Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African American families and leaders resisted this […]
“The Wall”: A tiny primer to help keep your sanity. My favorite home atlas is the Life Pictorial Atlas of the World, a major compendium, which I purchased in 1961. Of course, “The Wall” is about all that we’ve heard talked about recently. Here is the Life Atlas map of the U.S. Mexico border: Here […]
Sunday, MN Sen. Amy Klobuchar made her first comments as one of the candidates for the President in 2020. You can listen to her speech or read numerous commentaries about her candidacy here. I don’t recall ever actually meeting Amy Klobuchar in person, but she has always impressed me as a leader who makes a difference. […]