Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon<\/p>\n
If \u00a0you’re a person of my political bent, considerably left of center, you will not find your people living out here. \u00a0Or at least not easily. \u00a0In the last eighteen years, for example, I’ve not found mine.<\/p>\n
Who are my people? \u00a0Oh, you know. \u00a0The squabbly, active, black, red, gay, brown, feminists, collectivists, even the stray communist. \u00a0The folks constitutionally unable to take things lying down. \u00a0Activists. \u00a0See a problem, fix it kind of folks. \u00a0Those for whom voter id, the anti-gay marriage amendment, the wolf season, global warming are not matters of controversy, but already decided fact. \u00a0No, No, No, Yes.<\/p>\n
This has driven me, literally, into the city for so many different things, but mostly finding those with whom I can add my voice. \u00a0Those with whom a conversation does not start on first principles, but on nuances of appropriate action. \u00a0Those with whom I feel comfortable, socially and politically.<\/p>\n
The internet has made this less problematic, but not solved it since being with your people is, in the end, a face to face thing. \u00a0Why I drove into 26th and Nicollet yesterday afternoon and again out to 394 and Louisiana in the evening. \u00a0To be with, as one friend said, my peeps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon If \u00a0you’re a person of my political bent, considerably left of center, you will not find your people living out here. \u00a0Or … Continue reading Exurban Disadvantage #2<\/span>