Please forgive me for posting so often, but this is the season for a lot of politics. Some of it may even be important. Today a number of small things have happened that add up to a lot of nooze. What will matter? Here’s my take.
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Life in da big city, and in Saint Paul as well.
Reductio ad Extremis
The show opened like so many I’ve seen before. “This is the face of Muslim extremism, a man who grew up right here in Britain just as the Tube Bombers had.” I was only watching the show on CNN to see if it covered any new ground, but it didn’t. It was the same old crap and I switched it off.
Truth of the Cottonwoods
The cottonwoods are tall and scraggly, leaning over each other as shaking hands in friendship. This is their world, a place where they can stand undisturbed by little more than a few hikers and the buzz of motorboats. Their size alone gives them an authority that allows them to speak silently, telling stories about their world that reach back over the centuries. This is Pike Island, an island in the Mississippi that has been allowed to go back to the way it was two centuries ago when Europeans first arrived.
Open yer Mouth
Let’s start with a simple question: The main reason to open your mouth is:
A) To shove food into it, or
B) To express yourself.
If you answered “B”, I think we need to talk. You figger that’s what yer mouth is for, yes?
Nice Work if You Can Get It
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.”
Not to take too much away from George Gershwin, summertime is the hardest time of the year for me; even moreso around the Fourth of July. I make my living as a consultant to nonprofits, writing grants, pr, strategic plans, and just any other way they need their story to be told. It’s a good business right up until the weather heats up and everyone goes on vacation. It’s a serious kind of work, and it dries up when people’s minds are less than serious.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 