Finn and I took it slow. Mid-walk stretch was a revelation: glute-pain vanquished! This is a major breakthrough.
The boys are off in search of hiking boots. That would be Natick. Now, I learn, it’s Boston.
There will be bruschetta when they get back with homemade ratatouille and a tomato, basil, burrata salad.
So far for temperatures, we can rely on fans. We’ll see how the afternoon progresses.
PS I will never braid the ugly and the joyful in a post like that again. It felt icky. And the point is so obvious (i.e. we are living with mega-dissonance in America now), that I hardly needed to labor it.
But if you have the bandwidth, here’s a really good discussion about Israel, genocide, and the future of holocaust remembrance.
I had hoped that Omar Barton would speak out in this so clear and comprehensive way. If only more were listening and digesting. What utter sorrow and outrage that most people in our country give little if any thought to Gaza and appear to have no concern about the big bombs and all the rest of the aid we give in our tax dollars to this moral travesty which is truly genocide. Thank you for putting this out.
Thank you Doris for your passionate sense of justice.
Dee~ Ooh, that big ol’ heart (of yours, and in cloth) just radiates! It is gorgeous! I like the Moon Block Series. It reminded me of when we see Jude work something through by repetition. Very cool and each one unique.
As for the braid…I liked it very much, even if hard…for that is true life – the good and the sorrowful all wrapped into one. We can’t ignore either and we can’t live wrapped in only one as well…we must absorb and live them both…live it all and it really does happen all at once. My week was a funeral, a baby shower…the reading and learning and being horrified about Gaza & a chocolate shake. It was all there. Exhausting and real.
(((hugs)))
Thank you for the article Dee. A must read.
Not a new thought, but, in my lifespan of hearing, reciting “never again” – did I ever consider we would be the perpetrators. I feel sick.
I know. I did see today that Sen Angus King of Maine has called for the cessation of all aid to Israel as long as people are starving. He got half way there which is better than no way there.
Thank you Nancy. I did read over on your blog how life is handing you a “braid” recently: life and death. I do hope you’re okay.
Thanks Dee. I’m good. This is life. 😘