Musings

New rule - If you are hosting a TV show, you can’t do it from your living room using your webcam like you are on a videoconference call.

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Slowly putting Saturday in the rear-view with Willie Nelson and red wine

Please bow your heads.

In the 1980’s, with, in the opinion of many, no small amount of help from the Reagan Administration, there was a structural break in US agriculture as small, family farms went bankrupt and were consolidated into large, corporate farms.

The first Farm Aid concert was in 1985, organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Cougar Mellencamp, and is the year this album was released.

From the song You've Got to Stand for Something:

You can blow out a candle

But you can't blow out a fire

Once the flames begin to catch

The wind will blow it higher

…

And the eyes of the world are watching now

Fire Lake

My oldest grandchild, almost four, loves getting mail. He also loves maps after I gave him a US Interstate map. He keeps it in his room. He was the only one in his day care class that had seen a paper map, let alone owned one. I have also showed him newspapers and we looked at the sports pictures and the comics.

My grandson likes to watch the gps in the car and have video calls but he seems to like some of the old ways better.

The other two are too young to understand the postcards yet but will have them for when they do.