He’s been detained. Detained at the airport. It seems that they are looking for someone with the same name. A common name. A very common name. The kind of name that makes it difficult for people to find him on the internet because of the sheer overabundance of information about people with the same name. It’s one a.m. his time. He’s tired and has a raging headache. We talked briefly, and he just has to wait there until they can…
Please consider signing the petition to defend the anti-war students at Morton High School who engaged in a peaceful protest against military recruiting at their school. This is how the petition reads: We are writing in defense of the students who now face excessive disciplinary actions at the hands of various Morton West school administrators. Our sympathies lie with the courageous and moral struggle that the students have taken up, and with their parents who still support them. The struggle…
So many of my friends emailed this to me that I had to think I’m either a kind of Mommy-archetype for my friends, or it had to be a very fun video. I think (I think) it’s the latter. A woman condenses everything a mom would say in a typical 24-hour period into the framework of the William Tell Overture. So, by viral selection, here it is: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU[/youtube] Yup. That’s about it. (Thanks to Barbara, and Jacque, and Troy, and….)…
I often get notified of media mentions of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower Society via fellow ex-Jehovah’s Witness contacts on the web. The truly driven Danny Haszard sent me this one (thanks, Danny). San Antonio’s media home on the net has a feature called “Through kids’ eyes” in which children write a little about their hopes and dreams and concerns and daily life. It’s not exactly a news item. But among the (statistically improbable) stories of JW pedophiles, murderers, abusers,…
At an elevation of 10,678 feet, the Sandia Crest (just outside of Albuquerque) is the high point on the Turquoise Trail. It was a long drive up, on a smoggy day. The summit was covered with this. The most interesting thing to me was a small plant covered with millions of ladybugs. Then we headed into Albuquerque, and prepared to fly the next morning.
We headed back to Sante Fe, in defeat. I was still very ill. After a long fast, I had recovered enough to tackle an easy trail. Michael drove us to the Tent Rocks. It was gorgeous. A black bug at the top, where I also found some small Apache Tears.