Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice
The NYT has started a series focusing on the civil war, looking back 150 years ago. Lincoln has just been elected and the country has an internal division not matched again until, perhaps, the 1960’s, the War’s one hundredth anniversary. The Civil War fascinates me and I’ve visited several battlefields, as I’ve said here before. I’ve been especially interested in the war’s execution, why did the North win and the South lose? What have been the subsequent ramifications? Did Lincoln’s execution, which put Andrew Johnson in the Presidency, set back the integration of African-Americans into American society by a century or more? What did we learn? I look forward to a several year focus on the war, raising these questions anew.
A quiet physical. Saw Tom Byfield there, apparently we share a doctor. Tom, Davis that is, collects pueblo pottery and has a couple on loan to the MIA. I didn’t recognize his description, but I’m gonna check’em out. This time, the first time in a long time, I had no particular concerns to raise. He found nothing new or remarkable. The labs will come in, of course, and we’ll see then, but for now, I’m feeling good.
When I drove in today, each exit off Highway 94, starting at Broadway, then 4th street and finally Hennepin/Lyndale had cars backed up onto the freeway. I took Hennepin/Lyndale thinking there must a traffic jam in the city because of the snow. Nope. A peculiar situation, one of those imponderables that happens here when we get lots of snow and very cold weather. People drive strange.
On the news sheet: 4 bodies in NYC, dumped along a Long Island freeway, might mean a serial killer. Motorcycle thief steals $1.5 in Bellagio chips, rides away. So, is it news stories ripped from the television cop dramas or the other way around?