I keep scanning for photo ops as I drive back and forth to work , but I can’t see through this blanket of gray. Here are a couple from the Southbridge Boathouse in Concord. We need sun.
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A funny, maybe on point, letter to the editor in response to a New Yorker article about Clinton and Obama.
“Packer’s article demonstrates that there is no real basis of comparison between the two candidates. May I suggest that the reason for the essay’s lack of substance regarding Barack Obama’s ideas is that his campaign feels more like a pleasant horoscope than like a run for the Presidency? (The kind that anyone can read and think, Yes! I want change, too! It’s amazing how well he knows me.) Is there anything wrong with a candidate who has had her eye on the Presidency for more than a few years, and who values her private life? I’ll choose an ambitious woman of substance over a fortune cookie any day.”
Ursula Oberg
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The second bloom from an amaryllis at Ginger’s.
rakkity
Hey, how did Ginger do that? We’ve got 4 Amaryllii (Amaryllises?) and no blooms yet. Maybe too much sun?
jennifer
I agree we need sun. (I haven’t seen the moon for too long, and the conjunction was completely clouded over.) But I really like the quiet color in those photographs, Michael.
I find myself in disagreement with Ursula … and paste points 3 and 4 from an email from the other Michael in my life (my dad) about an article by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, which I’m not sending:
3. For the record, I agree with Waskow’s assessment that JFK’s policies were lousy (but also that the TONE his election empowered — or that got him elected) made the Civil Rights era possible.
4. I am going to vote for OBAMA in the NY Democratic Primary — and quite possibly in the Election — DESPITE A NUMBER OF HIGHLY UNACCEPTABLE POLICIES HE HAS ENUNCIATED (increases in military expenditures and troop strengths, Iran, Israel/Palestine) for two reasons: (1) Like the election of JFK (see Waskow’s article) Obama’s MIGHT open space for a viable progressive popular movement, for street politics, in a way NONE of the other candidates’ election could; (2) despite the positive aspects of electing a woman President, I think Hillary is a more dedicated imperialist and militarist — and by far less willing to listen to us in those areas — than any of the present or dropped-out Democratic candidates in this race.
jennifer
Wait, whose computer thinks it’s an hour later than it is? Rakkity’s would think it was only 7:43, and mine thinks it’s 10:51.
michael
The non letters to the editor section of that same magazine said Hillary would be a competent president but that Obama might be a transformative one.
Inflation adjusted George’s new budget allocates more money for missiles that we’ve spent in sixty years. What fools we are.
The blog was off by an hour.
Jen
Wow the water looks high. Such a pretty quiet photo. Serene. (See me dodging the political conversation?)
rakkity
“no real basis of comparison between the two candidates”?
One basis of comparison is that one candidate admitted her mistake in voting for the invasion, while the other candidate didn’t need to admit such a mistake.
michael
And a blood thirsty, calculated decision it was, I’d say. But then as Jen has alluded to, we’ve successfully stayed away from most things political on this here feel good blog.
rakkity
Agreed. No more political statements.
When we Beartoothers Fogy fivesome go backpacking, we all have to make the same promise. (Or else one of the fogies is politically outnumbered.)