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For now, each of my posts will be two-parters, divided between “Watching the World” (politics/history-in Words) and “Living the World” (travel, family/friends-mostly in Pictures). Sometimes the juxtaposition will be jarring. This post for instance: ‘Who’s a Nazi’, followed by a road trip to Colorado! My only explanation for incorporating the darkest of topics and one of my favorite pastimes into the same blog post is that is exactly how life splits now…. Read More
We are the lucky ones. How often do you hear old people say that? But hey, it’s all in the timing, isn’t it? We had the good fortune to live our adult lives, mostly to completion, in a relatively peaceful and prosperous part of the world. Of course, if we were members of the favored race and favored gender in these parts, we were even luckier, but that’s another less positive story…. Read More
“Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (Ponder this a moment…) Fifteen days from now. Right? Fifteen. Surely, we are not approaching the most momentous act of my lifetime. I was born six months before the start of WW2, so the Allies’ (the good guys back in the day: UK, US, Soviet Union, and, usually included, China)… Read More
Voting makes me feel good, as though I’m part of something meaningful, part of a community of like-minded humans; as though I’m grown-up and responsible and informed. Last week I voted. It felt good—for an hour or two. I’ve been thinking about me and politics a lot lately. Probably because my treadmill time at the gym has been consumed with the audiobook of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the… Read More