57 bar steep fall 29.82 3mph SSW Dewpoint 31 Spring
Waning Crescent Moon of Winds
A highlights tour today with kids from Hudson. We saw Frank, the Chuck Close portrait, then the Promenade of Euclid by Magritte. After that the teacher wanted to see “something famous, that they might see in books.” That’s ok, so I took them to see Van Gogh’s Olive Trees, Goya’s Dr. Arrieta and Rembrandt’s Lucretia. They had a theme of westward expansion underway in class so I then took them over to the Minnesota gallery and we looked at first, the long rifles, then the painting of Ft. Snelling with the Lakota camped on the opposite shore of the Minnesota River. The kids were there, engaged. Fun.
On the way down and back I’ve continued listening to From Yao to Mao, the history of China. I’m now on disc 17 of 18 and this is my second time through the series. Mao has just begun to push for the peasant community in China as the vanguard of the revolution, replacing the urban worker, the industrial proletariat, whose communist members had been ousted in raids by the Nationalist Party and the tongs. This will result in the long march and the eventual attrition of Mao’s forces by the thousands. In this campaign Mao will create the modern guerilla war, sometimes called 4th generation warfare.
