Monday Musings: June 7, 2010

Today was pretty darn good. Despite the winds, it was sunny and warm, and I ‘ve got to tell you … we’re ready for that around here. It’s been rainy and cold for far too long, and the weather really delayed a lot of my gardening plans.

Even my grape vines have leafed back out, and are producing - again - small clusters of grapes. This won’t be a banner year for grapes, but you’ve got to take those with the good ones.

I got tomatoes back into the front yard where they always produce big time, with the eastern exposure, while making up for lost time in the back around a trellis and patio table with shade loving plants, ground covers and mosses. Being a working ‘stiff’ all last summer took a toll on the yard.

Since this morning dawned brightly, I rolled out of the marital bed, into some jeans - with only one cuppa joe under my belt - to head over to the newest addition to the farmers’ market scene out here in South Suburban Reno.

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Monday Musings: April 12, 2010

“But these savage, wolfish parties alarm me. Owning no law but their own will, more and more combative, less and less tolerant of the idea of ensemble and equal brotherhood, the perfect equality of the States, the ever-overarching American ideas, it behooves you to convey yourself implicitly to no party, nor submit blindly to their dictators, but steadily hold yourself judge and master over all of them.”

Walt Whitman

What an intriguing quotation - from ‘Democratic Vistas’ by Whitman -  to begin the week with, and to reflect on.There is a great article in The Nation, from 2003, if you’d like to learn more about this great American poet and thinker.

That’s a good thing to begin the week with - knowledge. It empowers with the courage to be wise.

Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour ( do I need to tell you that he’s a Republican?), thinks declaring April Confederate History Month without nary a mention of (shush!) slavery, doesn’t matter ‘diddly’. That’s what Virginia Governor, Bob McDonnell did.

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