I’m not sure what is the appropriate way to wish everyone a Happy Day of Celebration, but today is known as “Juneteenth” and with all that is going on in our Nation we all need to pause and exchange our most celebratory wishes to everyone we meet. Today, June 19th, is the one hundred and …
I have heard our President say on several occasions that we have bigger numbers of cases because we are doing more testing. I don’t think he really believes that getting the test will actually give you the covid-19 virus, but that is surely what his words are saying. If he is intending for us to …
Our United States Constitution recognizes slavery and racism as fundamental parts of our new and “more perfect” union. In so doing, the Constitution legitimizes unequal treatment of the people who were living in these United States at the time. And, don’t be fooled by any of that North and South stuff because racial prejudice was …
I have spent a lot of my thought time trying to understand why people do what they do. When I don’t understand a behavior I see, I try to put myself in the body of the one I observe and imagine what could have motivated them. Call it empathy if you want, but I simply …
Today we mourn the loss of over 81,000 souls to the coronavirus pandemic. Over 81,000! We lost all those Americans in less than four months while we had another roughly 1,350,000 of our brothers and sisters fighting the covid-19 disease. And, the fight is a long way from over so the death toll and total …
Yesterday was our day to shop for some supplies. We do this about every two weeks and we are really careful to avoid situations that are risky in terms of catching covid-19. In the weeks since we were out last, our State of Washington has been emphasizing the use of cloth face masks when we …
We hear a lot of talk these days about how “we have to reopen our economy” and we generally don’t hear an explanation for the statement – it’s just a given, we have to do it. Have you ever wondered what unregulated, unfettered, capitalism would look like? Look around, and notice that the Trump Administration …
Recently, while we have been social distancing, my seventy sixth birthday arrived. I can remember younger times when I really didn’t think I would achieve this milestone in life so I am thrilled with my situation and I would like to celebrate just a little bit. Then I start to think about this coronavirus pandemic …
Almost four years ago, on the morning after our Presidential Election, I wrote the following post which I titled Say What? In a few months we will have the opportunity to elect another President and I thought it might be informative to consider some of the character traits that were obvious to us in the …
During my lifetime I have been privileged to see Mother Nature at her finest. The aftermath of Mt. St. Helens and the destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Sustained winds at sea that held a ship over several degrees of listing attitude and prevented it from returning to an upright orientation. And, there …
