Just drove in from Minneapolis and another Woolly meeting.\u00a0 Road spray coated the windshield as snow spit out from a darkened, starless sky.<\/p>\n
We met and discussed the financial situation around supper.\u00a0 Almost uniform pessissism and gloom.\u00a0 It felt weird to me to have this kind of conversation in Charlie Haislet’s top floor, two level condominium with its rooftop garden, first floor balcony and its grand view of downtown. \u00a0 We, as a group, while not uniform in our resources are uniform in that none of us face starvation, homelessness or even severe disruption.\u00a0 Have some of us lost thousands, even hundreds of thousands of paper dollars?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Does that make us poor?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
The worst that could happen is that some of us might have to downsize our homes, live more modestly.\u00a0 Does that mean a diminished quality of life?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
After supper we discussed the next four years and our assessment of where our country would be at the end of Obama’s first administration.\u00a0 There was a surprising (to me) note of optimism that dominated.\u00a0 Some of this seemed to be a hope that Obama as an African-American changes the playing field by his presence on it.\u00a0 Some of it seem to be a hope that we will work our way through the changes in the fiscal situation because we must.\u00a0 Charlie H worries that an Obama administration will take their eye off the security ball and we will have a nation less safe.\u00a0 He also worries that throwing government money at the problem is nonsense.\u00a0 I did not follow that part of what he said.<\/p>\n
Frank thought a lot of unprintable things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just drove in from Minneapolis and another Woolly meeting.\u00a0 Road spray coated the windshield as snow spit out from a darkened, starless sky. We met and discussed the financial situation around supper.\u00a0 Almost uniform pessissism and gloom.\u00a0 It felt weird to me to have this kind of conversation in Charlie Haislet’s top floor, two level … Continue reading Woolly Mammoth Meeting.<\/span>