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I was surprised, then, to have a conversation recently with an intelligent, articulate local businessman who told me that this scientific consensus doesn't exist, and while he could acknowledge that the climate is changing, it's a natural cycle associated with solar activity. He's sent me various charts and links. He's just forwarded an email that mentions Ian Plimer and his book Heaven and Earth, Bjorn Lomborg, and Kimberley Strassel's Wall Street Journal op ed piece, "The Climate Change Climate Change," which says that "the number of skeptics is swelling everywhere." Among other things, she mentions a list that Senator Jim Inhofe has assembled of scientists who supposedly deny that human action is associated with global warming, and says that the earth's temperature "has flatlined since 2001." (Has it?) If you read the comments on the op-ed piece, you see that the question of human action and climate change has been politicized – challenged by the right as a left-wing scam. This is really unfortunate – the science is lost in a fog of political wrangling.
Where does this nonsense about "scientific consensus" come from? Tens of thousands off scientists have openly spoken against the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change, including many involved with the IPCC. Those of us studying the actual data publicly available, can find no evidence to support the hypothesis. Climate is changing exactly as we would expect based on long term (4000 years plus) history.
"the science is lost in a fog of political wrangling."
You need to read the IPCC mandate. The IPCC reports are not about science. They are political and based on the assumption that the cause of "Global Warming" is due to man's activitiy on the earth. This is the starting point of all IPCC reports. They are therefore, necessarily biased and unreliable from a science perspective since they start from possibly false premise and build models to fit a preconceived result. The result therefore, should surprise no one. But is is NOT science.
Some of the many manifestations of "climate change" paranoia
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 20, 2009, 2:09 PM EDT
Some folks want to tackle climate change regionally,
Others allude to state-level organization for gaining climate control
Even though according to the NY Times piece (No. 4) below
Such narrowly focused, essentially local efforts are likely to be futile, on the whole.
1. Canadians want to tackle climate change regionally
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
By ROCKY BARKER BOISE, Idaho — The debate over climate change is very
different north of the border especially among conservatives. …(emphasis added).
2. Climate change forecast: warmer, wetter in Pa. – York Dispatch
Jul 16, 2009 … STATE COLLEGE — Warmer temperatures and more rain are forecast for Pennsylvania over the next century
in a climate change study from Penn …yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/pennsylvania/ci_12850198 – Cached – Similar –
3. Organization formed to combat global warming
Chicago Tribune – United States
Jim Doyle says the Wisconsin Climate Change Action Initiative will bring together leaders in business, government, advocacy organization and researchers to …
4. Trade and Climate
New York Times – United States
The main reason trade and climate change are linked is that the damage inflicted by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases IS NOT MAINLY LOCAL or .. (emphasis added).
While Sec. Clinton focuses on India
In an effort, it would seem, to arrange
Some basis for cooperation
In an effort to prevent (??), slow (??), and.or control (??)climate change.
5. Clinton upbeat on climate change talks with India | Financial 24
By economy
By Arshad Mohammed GURGAON, India, July 19 – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded optimistic on Sunday that the United States and India can bridge their differences on reducing greenhouse gases . However, a senior Indian …
Financial 24 | Financial News
6. India Will Resist Pressure From US on Carbon Emissions Caps
Bloomberg – USA
Clinton is on a state visit to India meant to showcase trade and security ties and seek common ground on climate change and arms control. …
India Rejects U.S. Proposal of Carbon Limits
Clinton Expresses Hope for Common Ground on Climate Change Despite Disagreement on Capping Greenhouse Gases
"There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have among the LOWEST EMISSIONS PER CAPITA, face to actually reduce emissions,"
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told Mrs. Clinton and her delegation. (emphasis added).
Canny Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh!
He knows full well that his nation
Outnumbers the U.S, by almost a factor of FOUR
(1,156,697,766 to 307,212,123) in total population.
Given so many warm bodies and the corresponding emanations
That particular country is well on the way
To producing more greenhouse gases in an hour
Than the U.S. could produce in a day.
Add to India's total, that of China (2009 est., 1,338,612,968)
And it would seem reasonable to say
That their total, combined gaseous emanations (of the greenhouse variety alone)
Is likely to exceed that for the entire U.S.A.
8. Carbon emissions trading system 'seriously flawed' guardian.co.uk – UK
"At a time when other countries are looking to set up their own trading schemes and the world is set to debate a global deal on how to tackle
climate change …
If the "world" can't reach a global deal
On how to tackle danger clearly at hand
(E.g., Islamo-fascism, N. Korea, Taliban and Iran)
Tackling climate change clearly can't be collaboratively planned.
However, as suggested by CNN International's Dean Irvine, below
The theory that greenhouse produced gases affect climate change
May need to be re-examined in light of the possibility that computer software (sic) is responsible–
Or possibly some other still unidentified factor equally strange.
9. Can computer software account for climate change? CNN International – USA
By Dean Irvine (CNN) — Microsoft had trouble solving the problems with its Vista operating system, so what are its chances of fixing climate change?
But the search for causation should be accelerated
To prevent climate change from destabilizing Iraq
(And raising the specter of Joe Biden again unannounced
Deciding that he plans, there, to go back).
10, James Denselow: Climate Change and Iraq
By James Denselow
Iraq's increasing environmental problems may destabilise the fragile security gains of the last two years. At the start of the month, the US vice-president Joe Biden visited Iraq unannounced to consolidate his position as Obama's …
What Joe hoped to consolidate on that visit
We hope was not his plan announced a few years ago
To see Iraq divided as Caesar saw Gaul (in tres partes divisa)
That to revisit up till now he's been slow.
But, thinking positively, if Joe speaks again in Iraq
As he does here in the U.S. of A.
To see and hear this (somewhat officious) comedian in person
Any Iraqi would be willing, perhaps a premium, to pay.
But it's something of a digression, albeit only slight,
From the overall climate change hysteria theme
To consider the question of how climate change destablises security gains in Iraq–
Or so, to the analytical observer, it would seem.
11. Climate change: A crisis of credibility
Examiner.com – USA
The world's leaders will gather in Copenhagen this December to discuss climate change and unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be sending a team to …
Indeed, that appears to be the case…
If any reader can make sense of this illustrative sample of "climate change" reporting
This reporter hopes s/he'll convey it to him,
(But the chance that there's any underlying, credible basis therefor
He now believes to be exceedingly slim).
Climate Change made the typhoons in the south pacific very destructive. Typhoon Ketsana made a lot of mess in Philippines and Vietnam
Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental issue that we face these days. the long term effects of these environmental changes to a nations economy is quite damaging. there would be a shortage in food supply as well as on water supply too.
Climate Change is really scary, now we have super typhoons and a lot of flooding going on some countries..,*-
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Study: Death penalty costlier than life sentences
SAN FRANCISCO -- Maintaining the death penalty in California costs at least $184 million more a year than it would simply to leave killers in prison for life, and the average wait for a prisoner between conviction and execution has grown to more than 25 years, a report due to be released next week says.
The three-year study by a federal judge and a law professor also found that California taxpayers have spent an average of $308 million for each of the 13 executions conducted since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1978.
The study was conducted by Judge Arthur Alarcon, who sits on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and his law clerk, Loyola Law School Professor Paula Mitchell, who spent three years examining federal, state and local costs associated with capital punishment.
Several other reports in recent years, including one in 2009 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, have also concluded that executing prisoners is far more expensive than incarcerating them for life.
At the end of their 224-page report, Alarcon and Mitchell suggest that voters change the capital punishment system through an initiative, either to streamline the legal appeals and conviction process or to do away with executions altogether.
"We're not in the business of drafting initiatives, but we do propose ways the voters should consider to remedy this horrible situation," Mitchell said Monday. "We really wanted for this study to be academic and objective and to leave aside the question of morality over the death penalty so that voters can focus clearly on what they are spending.
"If people really knew what the death penalty costs us," Mitchell added, "I doubt they would want to continue it."
Mitchell said she opposes capital punishment, but her co-author does not.
Most surveys in the state, including a 2010 Field Poll, show continuing support for the death penalty. However, there have been no executions in California since 2006 because of legal challenges over whether the state's execution procedures violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
In reaction to the report, state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, said she will introduce legislation next week that could lead to a ban on capital punishment. Her bill would generate an initiative proposing that voters abolish executions and convert existing death sentences to life without possibility of parole.
Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, which favors capital punishment, said the new report has "some good points, but it misses others."
He said the study was right to explore the Legislature's refusal to pass changes that would streamline the process, but disagreed that abolishing the death penalty was an acceptable alternative to simply making capital punishment more efficient.
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RAF Regiment now welcomes women in combat roles
Today marks a proud moment in the RAF's history as we officially open up the roles of RAF Regiment Gunner and Officer to women. Apply today! pic.twitter.com/mkij8ZmYA4
— Royal Air Force (@RoyalAirForce) September 1, 2017
In what the Service itself calls "a proud moment," the RAF Regiment has announced today that it will open combat positions such as gunner and officer to women. Applications for women to join the RAF Regiment in close combat roles will now be accepted, in consequence of former Prime Minister David Cameron's announcement to do so in 2016. Service chiefs unanimously backed the decision, with present Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon saying in July that the RAF Regiment would be open to women from September, ahead of the original 2018 deadline, taunting the by now familiar, yet slightly Orwellian line:
"A diverse force is a more operationally effective force."
Part of the Royal Air Force, the RAF Regiment functions as a specialist airfield defence corps and was founded in 1942. Its battlefield task is to prevent a successful enemy attack, or, failing that, to minimise damage, and ensure air operations can continue as quickly as possible after an attack on an RAF airfield. They also have a band.


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The Poet Speaks Again
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the book of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.
– Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land
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Berry's comment speaks to me of having reverence for all of life – to discover that what is real is not found in the trivia accumulated on our walk through life, but rather in the grace that
comes from loving its beauty and accepting what it brings.
Chihuly glass does the same for me….spirit filled work.


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Charles Dance's Epic Rugby World Cup Team Conversation Is Too Big To Miss
Fans will undoubtedly have the ability to apply for tickets for Rugby World Cup 2015 this month when they go on sale to the general public. ITV Sport will probably be worldwide host broadcaster and the UK for the 2015 event, having signed a deal in 2011 to broadcast 2015 RWC tournaments and the 2011. Eight matches will soon be held at the house of Welsh rugby next season, including two of Wales' pool games and two quarter finals. Today (Thursday) England Rugby 2015 have declared that a total of 950,000 Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets were sold in the general sale, from September 12-29. To have the world No. 2 ranked team coming to town is amazing.
Debbie Jevans, chief executive officer of England Rugby 2015 said: "They are thrilled with demand for tickets a year out from the tournament, andRecord degree of demand they saw in September is an amazing index of excitement and the general interest for Rugby World Cup 2015. Absolute ticket applications were more than five million, which is a higher level of demand than for the preceding seven Rugby World Cup tournaments.
Kingsholm Stadium, home of Gloucester Rugby, will be sponsoring four World Cup matches in 2015, including Tonga vs Georgia , Scotland vs Japan , Argentina vs Georgia and USA vs Japan - all of which are likely to offer thrilling encounters for Gloucestershire rugby supporters lucky enough to get their hands on tickets, in addition to seeing rugby lovers from across the world. Eleven of the pool matches have kid tickets available, starting at GBP7.
Organisers failed in their own attempts to lobby the authorities to introduce laws that would have made the resale of tickets a criminal offence, as it was for the London 2012 Olympics. Instead they'll have to hope that warning supporters who purchase tickets on websites for example Seatwave and Viagogo that they might be denied entry will be sufficient. Any remaining tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis from November.
Sports Minister Helen Grant, added,"I am delighted with the public answer to tickets going on sale for next year's Rugby World Cup. In addition to the 950,000 tickets sold in Rugby 2015 to rugby enthusiasts through rugby clubs in Rugby Community Programme, while the total England and Wales as part of the sales amount will rise through the November sale. 23 went to vote at every cost category.
With a few tickets available for as low as GBP7 for kids and GBP15 for adults, ticket prices for RWC 2015 have been made as affordable as you can, with less than two years to go. Tickets for all 48 games will go on sale via an application window which closes on September 29, 2014 and opens on September 12, a year in advance of the Tournament. To be in with a chance of buying tickets you have to supply details of the matches you would like to attend along with the number of tickets required.
Keeping rugby at the center of the Tournament, 75% of the 6,000 volunteers will be recruited from rugby clubs in England and Wales, and the remaining 1,500 places will be recruited through a national campaign aimed at bringing more people into rugby and keeping them in the match beyond 2015. The application process was not closed for one month between 17 March and 17 April 2014. In this match Scotland take in a thrilling World Cup game of Rugby Union on USA.
The Rugby Union World Cup takes place and on 18 September 2015, the opening match will undoubtedly be played in the home of rugby union, Twickenham Stadium in England. With all the places distribute far and wide throughout great britain, there's plenty of opportunities to see some of England's finest attractions from the rugby field. The last Rugby World Cup in 2011 was won by host nation New Zealand, the favourite to win next year's World Cup with Betfair at a cost of around 6/4.
A Festival of Rugby will probably be held in Exeter and the Heart of Devon to keep you entertained whilst you're seeing Exeter prior to, during and following Rugby World Cup 2015 to add to your own holiday experience. Kids and local schools will no doubt be inspired by this type of high profile tournament to think of fantastic ideas for a fantastic 'Rugby World Cup' flowerbed layout to be put Weybridge, in Churchfields Recreation Ground.
Where demand for tickets exceeded supply ballots were run earlier this week for matches and price points, and ballots were held for at least one price point in every one of the 48 matches. Tickets were on general sale from September 12-29, and England Rugby 2015 received applications for more than 5 million tickets, resulting in demand exceeding supply at every price class for 23 of the 48 matches. All 48 matches went at entry cost categories to ballot.
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Susan B. Anthony, age eighty-three and traveling with her sister and her doctor, reached New Orleans by train on the night of March 17, 1903. No longer an elected leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she could arrive late for the business committee meetings that always preceded an annual convention.
Earlier that same day, the New Orleans Times-Democrat published an interview with the association's current president, Carrie Chapman Catt. Catt offered two reasons for a lack of progress toward woman suffrage in the South: women in the region were taught that voting "would detract from their feminine dignity" and would undermine white supremacy.
[T]hey have been made to believe that if equal suffrage were granted, negro domination would follow inevitably because the negroes predominate in the Southern States. It seems to me that the South has safeguards sufficient to prevent any such thing.
By "safeguards," Catt meant the many devices that southern states were adopting to disenfranchise African-American men without obviously violating the federal constitution. To take the local example, in just two years under its constitution of 1898, Louisiana slashed the number of registered black voters from about 130,000 to just over 5,000, and the count kept falling.
When Anthony awoke to her first day in the city on March 18, the Times-Democrat carried an editorial by Page M. Baker, a Confederate veteran and a voice for white rule, in which he warned that advocates of racial equality would be found among the suffragists arriving in town; "women of Caucasian blood in the South" should not get involved. He pooh-poohed Catt's faith in "safeguards" and called out Susan B. Anthony. It was not her historic connections to the end of slavery that caught his attention; Baker complained about something she had done just a month ago.
Did not Mrs. Susan B. Anthony, the most prominent living advocate of woman's suffrage, recently assail the South for its attitude toward the negro, and did she not support the President in his effort to force negro Federal officers upon unwilling Southern communities, and, was not the letter in which she declared these views read at a meeting of negroes at New York, called for the specific purpose of denouncing the Southern people?
Baker had read about a mass meeting in New York City on February 19. Anthony did not attend it; at home in Rochester, she suffered from what sounds like shingles for most of the month. Baker conflated what she wrote to the meeting and what attendees approved as resolutions; she said nothing about conflicts over presidential appointments of African Americans in southern states.
What Anthony did do when asked was to lend her name to this event at Cooper Union, called to protest disfranchisement of African Americans in the South. Hers was a name to conjure with: one of the last surviving agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a veteran of postwar debates about how to protect the political rights of former slaves, and someone who had studied voting rights in the U.S. for better than fifty years. In her letter, she expressed a wish to "join with those who are like sufferers with my sex" in their lack of voting rights. She also brought history to the protest.
The trouble . . . is farther back and deeper than the disfranchisement of the negro. When men deliberately refused to include women in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the national Constitution, they left the way open for all forms of injustice to other and weaker men and peoples. (New York Sun, 20 Feb 1903)
She had argued for decades that those amendments were written and interpreted as permission to states to deny suffrage at will. As if to prove her point, in her own federal criminal trial for voting in 1873, Associate Justice Ward Hunt opined:
If the State of New York should provide . . . that no person having grey hair . . . should be entitled to vote, I do not see how it could be held to be a violation of any right derived or held under the Constitution of the United States.
Southern states had seized an opportunity.
At the Cooper Union meeting, the focus was on Virginia, the latest state to launch schemes of disfranchisement. A new constitution, proclaimed in spring 1902, wiped the voting rolls clean and put in place rules and practices to block most black men from registering anew. The damage was done in advance of congressional elections in November 1902, and activists sued to stop certification of election results. In short order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding, dismissed the case on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction in what was a political matter. The congressmen took their seats, and in January 1903, the court's decision was appealed to the Supreme Court.
The chief actor in the suit was James H. Hayes, an African-American lawyer in practice in Richmond, who traveled north to raise money for legal fees. While keeping a busy schedule of speaking, he also wanted to change the political conversation about African Americans by highlighting the importance of black suffrage and openly condemning disfranchisement. His speeches around New York City warned his black audiences of the dangers to their own voting rights, if states could so easily take them away.
Someone invited Susan B. Anthony to send that letter to the meeting of February 19, but there is no longer a record of who that was. Alongside of James Hayes, representatives of two generations of white activists in the cause of racial justice were on the stage at Cooper Union. Seventy-year-old Moncure D. Conway, author, leading freethinker, and outspoken woman suffragist was a son of slaveowners, who joined the antislavery cause in the 1850s and had lived abroad since the war. Also on stage was the much younger John E. Milholland, forty-three, son of Irish immigrants, who was coming into his own as an advocate for racial equality. Bishops of two black denominations, Alexander Walters and William B. Derrick, also took the stage. Walters stood not only for his church but also for his secular activism as a founder and former president of the civil rights group, the National Afro-American Council. Hayes too worked with the council, and its leaders may have been the link to Anthony: its treasurer and one vice president were friends of hers in Rochester, New York.
Back in New Orleans on March 18, the business committee approved a public letter to answer Page Baker's editorial. The official record attributes the disingenuous letter to Alice Stone Blackwell, but its central assertion cropped up like a well-rehearsed refrain at the annual meeting in speeches and formal resolutions. To make woman suffrage palatable to southerners like Baker, the association's leaders embraced the white supremacists in its ranks and conceded the right of states to disenfranchise citizens.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association is seeking to do away with the requirement of a sex qualification for suffrage. What other qualifications shall be asked for it leaves to each State. (Times-Democrat, 19 Mar 1903)
Susan B. Anthony's name as the association's honorary president was affixed to this letter along with the names of elected officers.
During her interview on March 16, Catt was asked, "Are there negro women belonging to the suffragists?" Putting political rights aside, the interviewer broached the social rules of racism, by asking, were the northern visitors practicing racial equality? Catt's answer was, at best, peculiar.
. . . I am told we have them. I do not know them personally. I have had no communication with them as negroes.
The topic was timely in New Orleans: the city was hosting not only the annual meeting of suffragists but also meetings of the National Council of Women, and local bigotry blocked a delegate named to represent one large affiliate of the Council, the National Association of Colored Women.
Anthony spent most of her time in New Orleans at rest in her hotel room, emerging for a few events. There is no evidence that she audibly protested the accommodations made to white domination by her successors. But in what reads like direct defiance of Carrie Catt, she accepted an invitation to speak at the Phyllis Wheatley Club, the city's leading club of black women. Best known for providing social services and training for skilled jobs, the club's members also included advocates of suffrage. Moreover, the club's president, Sylvanie F. Williams, was the very delegate blocked from the National Council of Women. Williams acknowledged what Susan B. Anthony had done. While presenting flowers to her guest, she spoke about the rough treatment accorded to black women and ended,
When women like you, Miss Anthony, come to see us and speak to us, it helps us to believe in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and, at least for the time being, in the sympathy of woman. (Woman's Journal, 4 Apr 1903)
On her way north from New Orleans, Anthony stopped in Alabama to visit Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. Margaret Washington hosted the traveling suffragists, assembled the girls to hear a short talk by Miss Anthony, and paraded them all past her to shake hands. Where was Mr. Washington? He had gone to New York to put pressure on Mr. Hayes and Bishop Walters to tone things down, to be less critical of the south and less insistent on full citizenship. In a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt on March 27, Washington wrote,
I feel rather sure now that I have got them down to a sensible and helpful basis their work will be along right lines.
If Hayes changed direction or became more "sensible," it is not evident now. In April, he reached Rochester, and at a meeting there on April 28, he and Susan B. Anthony addressed a large crowd in Central Church. Among his hosts were John W. Thompson, treasurer, and Hester M. Jeffrey, a vice president, of the Afro-American Council. Thompson was well acquainted with Anthony through his leadership of the national campaign to erect a monument to Frederick Douglass in the city where he lived before the war and where he is buried. Though a relative newcomer to the city, Hester Jeffrey had grown close to the much older Anthony. She was a leader both in the African American community and in the city's integrated societies of women, including its Political Equality Club.
Republican Mayor Adolph Rodenbeck presided, while notable, local advocates of racial equality sat on the platform. The church's own Rev. James P. Sankey (white) was joined by the Revs. J. J. Abrams and A. Sellers Mays (both black). Susan Anthony, Hester Jeffrey, and John Thompson took their seats. Then came Nathan Patchen Pond, a white businessman and proud officer in the United States Colored Cavalry during the war.
Rodenbeck opened with a detailed and blunt historical lecture about the ups and downs of black voting rights since emancipation. Anthony spoke next. Freedom without voting rights was a mockery, she proclaimed, whether the individuals were black men, black women, or white women. She joined the issues of race, gender, and voting rights to revive her claim to a citizen's right to vote.
The trouble is that the men of the north cannot take determined action very well because of the inconsistency of that action. They cannot reasonably advocate the enfranchisement of the negro while they withhold the same advantage from the women of their own part of the country. They are really in such a muddle that they don't know how to get out of it. (Rochester Union and Advertiser, 29 Apr 1903)
James Hayes spoke last. The press reported that part of his speech designed to demolish the potent myth of imminent "negro domination."
And right here . . . I desire to refute a statement that is often made which is not true. It is often said that there are more black men in the south than white men. In the south there are 8,000,000 negroes and 17,000,000 white men. The domination of the black race is not feared. The negro never did dominate. He would never dare to dominate.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the cases from Virginia in April 1904 and issued a unanimous opinion at month's end. No surprise, the court ruled it was too late to do anything about an election held in November 1902. The court treated this as a moot case–one for which there was no remedy: Congress had recognized the winning candidates and seated them. In a unanimous opinion written by Associate Justice David J. Brewer, the court dodged all questions about racial discrimination and about the constitutional rights of African Americans.
The fleeting cooperation of James H. Hayes and Susan B. Anthony, at a dark moment in American history, has proved easy to overlook. Great transformations did not ensue. The rules and laws of racial discrimination grew harsher; interracial collaboration did not gain popularity; neither white women nor African Americans solved their shared problem–that states retained their rights to disenfranchise. They still do. But in this encounter between Anthony and Hayes, the souls of reformers are exposed. They both were made of the stuff that fuels social movements. They shared convictions about human rights and believed in acting on their political and moral choices, always hopeful that their obstacles were not truly insurmountable. The spiritual says, "You got a right, I got a right," and synthesis follows, "We all got a right to the tree of life." If only.
Shannen Dee Williams researched these stories when editors at the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony found them recurring in documents of 1903, and her careful work has been my foundation and starting point. Where I've gone from that point is entirely on me.
James H. Hayes is not pictured here because I cannot find a picture. If you know of one, please let me know.
Make this an occasion to read a classic, originally published right in the middle of these events, in April 1903. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. The Library of America published a paperback in 1990.
For context in Anthony's life, see: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906, vol 6 of Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, ed. Ann D. Gordon et al. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013)
Historians form strong opinions of Hayes and don't agree with each other. For a range, see
** Vol. 7 of The Booker T. Washington Papers, ed. Louis R. Harlan et al. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1977.)
** R. Volney Riser, Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2010).
** Benjamin R. Justesen, Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008)
Opinions from the Supreme Court on Virginia's constitution:
Jones v. Montague 194 United States Reports 147 (1904)
Selden v. Montague 194 United States Reports 153 (1904)


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The blog first: World War II Today is one of those brilliant ideas that only the internet, and blog architecture in particular, makes possible. A day by day chronicle of WWII, presented in a 'today, 70 years ago' format with oodles of attention to detail and professionalism. Very cool. Obviously works best if you put it into your rss feed or some other subscription-like service, so you get a daily update. I love both the idea and its implementation. It's a really remarkable achievement, I think.
The podcast second: The History of WWII Podcast is a staggering undertaking. A biweekly, or thereabouts, podcast delivering an enormously detailed narrative of … well, pretty much everything that happened during WWII. It melts my brain even to consider the amount of time and effort that's going into this. I don't even know how long it's already been running for (I assume years), but it's on episode 83 or so, and has reached early 1941. Japan and Russia and the US aren't even really involved yet. This one could run and run. The early episodes are a little bit rough around the edges, but as time goes on they become more and more polished and well-narrated.
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This is the travel diary of Keith and Brenda Krejci, who since November 2005 have lived in their motorhome and traveled the country. When first married, Brenda would ask Keith a question, and if he didn't know the answer, would tell him "I married you because I thought you were perfect", to which Keith would reply "I never said I was perfect, just damn near" And so, after 49+ years together they've become, at least for each other, the Damn Near Perfect Couple.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Meandering Thru Michigan
Those of you who know Brenda know that she lives for the Christmas holidays, and so a trip to Frankenmuth and the Christmas Store was a must-do. I don't believe I've ever seen a more touristy town than Frankenmuth. Everything, and I mean everything, is done in a Bavarian theme. Manicured, flowered, arranged…..if Disneyland had a "Bavarialand", this would be it. Our first stop was to (big surprise) a bakery in the huge Zehnder's "Marketplace". Spotless, large, with shelves laden with breads, rolls, cookies, and kuchen. Looking at the prices, we quickly realized that we were not only buying bakery, but buying an experience – an expensive one. But we managed to pick up a few things and head for…….The Christmas Store! Technically it's "Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland", and billed as the largest Christmas store in the world, and after visiting, we're convinced! Acres and acres of lights, ornaments, trees, and every Chirstmacy thing you can imagine. Thankfully, there was an ice-cream stand halfway through the place, or we'd never had made it. But rather than try and describe the place, here's a few images:
Leaving Bay City, we traveled north, crossing the Mackinac Bridge and stopping at the small resort town of St. Ignace. Crossing the "Mighty Mac" bridge was a bit sporty – over 8000' long and as much as 200' above the water, with a nice gusty crosswind. Brenda, who doesn't like high places, didn't see much, as she had wrapped the cat around her head much like a furry scarf. Strangely, the cat didn't seem to mind. St. Ignace proved much more comforting. Nice restaurants, great views, and lots of ferry activity back and forth to Mackinac Island. We kept hearing about this other island – Mackinaw, and thought there were two islands until we figured out that the correct pronunciation of Mackinac is "Mack-in-aw".
From St. Ignace, it was a short trip up to Sault Ste Marie (soo-saint-marie), where we stayed in a campground with a view of the water and the huge ships that travel the Great Lakes. The big attraction here is of course the locks. Lake Superior is connected to Lake Huron by the St. Mary's river, but Superior is 21 feet higher and flows down an area of significant rapids near town. Before the locks, the only way to get from one to the other was to portage around, which of course wouldn't work for large ships. And so in 1855 the first, crude but effective locks were built. In 1896 the Poe Lock was constructed followed by three more over the years. Today the Poe, rebuilt in 1968 to accommodate larger ships, and the smaller McArthur lock are the most used of the four locks built. Of the two others, one is used sparingly and the other is in caretaker status. Like the Panama Canal, the locks are operated by gravity-fed water, but unlike the Panama, there is no fee to travel through the Soo Locks. Over ten thousand ships pass through the locks each nine-month year (they're closed during the winter) making the Soo Locks the busiest in the world.
As you can imagine, the whole town revolves around the locks. Downtown there is a beautiful park with a viewing area that puts visitors eye-level with ship's crews, and there's a phone line to hear the ship schedule. We decided to take the boat tour, and are glad we did. Leaving the dock, we headed for the locks while listening to the narrator talk about the history of the area. As we approached the locks, we were told we had to wait a bit since another tour boat was using the only operating lock and would be coming our way. Approaching the locks, we could see the gates and the administration building, built in 1896. As we waited, the gates slowly opened, the other boats left, and it was our turn to enter.
We entered the locks, were tied up, and watched the gates behind us close and the water rise.
It takes 22 MILLION gallons of water to raise a boat the 21 feet to the level of Lake Superior. It's a good thing they don't charge – all that water for one 65-foot boat! Entering the Lake Superior side, we cruised around for a while, and took a tour of the huge Essar Steel Algoma plant. Employing over 2800 people, it's the 2nd largest steel plant in Canada. And is owned by India. It was actually interesting, we cruised up fairly close while the narrator told us about the steel making process and how the various ores are shipped here. And for good measure, we traded air horn greetings with some of their huge trucks.
We returned to the locks, this time going through the smaller McArthur lock, and just as we were ready to leave, what looked like a steel island slowly came into view. Leaving the locks, we were stunned by the size of the ship – one of the ten 1000' Great Lakes carriers. This one, the Walter J McCarthy Jr, is exactly 1000' long with cargo capacity of over 78,000 tons.
As we continued down the river and back to our dock, another freighter, this one a svelte 700' was waiting it's turn.
Finally we were back at the dock, next to the Edison Sault Hydroelectric Plant, in continuous operation since 1902. It's much more than an electric plant, it's a monument to the Italian masons who built it from local sandstone. The 1300' long powerhouse contains 74 turbines, generating enough power to provide electricity to 25,000 homes. Impressive from a distance, a close-up shows the beautiful stone and if you look closely, you can see lighthouses spaced throughout the front of the building.
From Sault Ste Marie, we headed west to the interior of the Upper Peninsula for a stay near Curtis, a small town next to Manistique Lake. We were looking for a quiet place to relax for a few days and our stay here was worthwhile. But Lake Superior called, so we journeyed to Munising to take a "shipwreck" tour boat. Our tour took us along the "picture rock" shoreline and two shipwrecks, one from 1870, the other from 1926. Our boat had glass panels built into the bottom for viewing, and when over the wreck, our narrator would describe what happened to the ship and what we were seeing. Our first ship's outline was visible from the surface, thanks to the clear and cold water of Lake Superior that preserves the wrecks; after, all, this was a ship that sank almost 150 years ago! Looking through the glass panel, we could clearly see the timbers of the bow.
The second wreck was of a larger ship and had a large amount of debris scattered along the bottom. Here's a great view of the anchor:
Leaving the wrecks, we cruised along the shore enjoying the weather and the great views. The colorful shoreline is caused by the sandstone, which erodes and leaves trees that have been undercut to grow upside-down:
Brenda, keeping a sharp eye out, spotted this Great Lakes Tree Shark, a rare species known for it's tree-looking dorsal fin. Stealthy, they're seldom seen by all but the most skilled marine observers. Like us. The rest of our fellow passengers missed this opportunity, since they were looking at this old, partially restored lighthouse.
Our last trip was a shopping visit to Marquette, and then on to the former K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, a large base that closed in 1995. While I was never stationed there, many of my friends were, and I was interested in seeing how it looked after all these years. My friends always talked about the beauty of the area, the hunting and fishing opportunities, and the harsh winters. Sadly, there not much beauty left here. Some of the base is being used by various civilian entities and most of the base housing is apparently rented out, but most of the base is empty and deteriorating. A quick tour:
Traveling around a closed base is like touring a ghost town – you wonder what life was like here when it was active. So many people spent years here, had children that grew up, and left here with fond memories. RIP, K.I. Sawyer.
That's it for Michigan! We're traveling again – who knows what we'll have to share next time?
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Old Friends and Old Places
This year Brenda and I decided to take advantage of the low diesel prices and do some traveling. It's been three years since we've been back to the Cleveland area, where we both went to high school and where we have friends and family. And thanks to Facebook, we've connected with people we haven't seen since high school, so we were looking forward to seeing them again. We found a great location in the small village of Chesterland, on the East side of the greater metro area and convenient to most of the people we'd hoped to see. The park, the Maywood Community, is an over-55 park of modular homes that has a few RV pads. It was shaded, had full hookups, and was a perfect place for us to make our visits.
Our beloved Leg Lamp (it's a major award!) is starting to show signs of wear, so we headed for the Tremont Neighborhood of Cleveland and the Christmas Story House. This is our third visit, and each time we've been surprised at how the neighborhood, which used to be very shabby, has been improved. Fresh paint, remolded exteriors, nice lawns – it just goes to show what happens when you have a world-famous one-of-a-kind attraction in your neighborhood! We didn't tour the house, but on our way to the store I looked up and (gasp) there, at the upstairs window, was the ghost of Ralphie in the bunny suit! And he waved! Or maybe it was just some poor kid who's parents made him dress up in the costume – but I prefer to think it was Ralphie's ghost.
We wandered around the store looking at all of the incredible bargains – where else can you find a fluffy, full-length pink bunny costume for only $199? But alas, our leg lamp, which we bought for $29 five years ago, is now priced at $79.99, and so we decided to keep ours and clean it up a bit.
With the Cleveland skyline in the distance, we stopped for lunch at Sokolowski's University Inn, a fabled Polish restaurant that opened in 1923 and is billed as "Cleveland's Oldest Family-owned Restaurant". This is a working man's restaurant – buffet style, with a bunch of shouting woman dishing up the paprikash, pierogi, and stuffed cabbage, steam coating everything and everyone, and a crowded seat-yourself dining room. But oh my – the food! My stuffed cabbage was the size of a bowling ball – and about the same weight. Brenda's chicken paprikash must have contained a family of chickens and the sour cream/paprika gravy was amazing. But afterward, we wished we had ordered a few pierogi – just to be polite, of course.
We took a day trip to Walnut Creek, an area with a large Amish population, and stocked up on cheese and smoked meats, and while there Brenda found this little block of Chocolate for cooking. On another day, we came across an Italian deli in Mentor with the name "Maxim's". We checked, and it is owned by the same family that started the business in Cleveland in 1949 and catered our wedding 45 years ago. Stopping in, we found the current owner is the son of the original owner, Manny Berardinelli, who we knew. Manny, who is now 96, still stops in one or two days a week to check on things. Maxim's was famous for it's great Italian meats, potato salad, and pizza – the only pizza we ever had that was better cold than hot. We talked about the old days while I feasted on an amazing Italian sausage sub, but Maxim's is mainly a take-out pizza place now, without the home-baked bread and potato salad.
But our visit here was all about family and friends. We spent time with Brenda's brother Ron and sister Joan and her family, and we managed to visit with my cousins Jayne, Judy, and Craig, and even cousin Knettie and her husband Flip, who were visiting from their home in Connecticut. Visiting my old high school friend Lorrie and his family, we not only scored some great home-made pizza, but a trunkful of Zucchini, onion, potatoes, and garlic. A special treat, thanks to Facebook, was the ability of Brenda to connect with some of her high school classmates. She had a great time reconnecting after 53 years with Ruby, Mary, Sandy and Tony, and Kathy and John. And just before we left, we had the chance to have lunch with my old co-worker and favorite female pirate, Charlene.
Our thanks to you all, for taking the time to visit with us and relive the "good old days" – we can't wait to see you again!
We're back on the road, traveling to new places and seeing new things, so c'mon back and check!


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The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa (1870). There was a significant branch to Omaha, Nebraska (1899) west of Fort Dodge, Iowa and another branch reaching Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1877) starting from Cherokee, Iowa. The Sioux Fall branch has been abandoned in its entirety.
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Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and 25 sacks of mail...
Good morning America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
– Steve Goodman, "City of New Orleans", 1970
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and 25 sacks of mail...
Good morning America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
The IC is one of the early Class I railroads in the US. Its roots go back to abortive attempts by the Illinois General Assembly to charter a railroad linking the northern and southern parts of the state of Illinois. In 1850 U.S. President Millard Fillmore signed a land grant for the construction of the railroad, making the Illinois Central the first land-grant railroad in the United States.
The Illinois Central was chartered by the Illinois General Assembly on February 10, 1851.[2] Senator Stephen Douglas and President Abraham Lincoln were both Illinois Central men who lobbied for it. Douglas owned land near the terminal in Chicago. Lincoln was a lawyer for the railroad. Upon its completion in 1856 the IC was the longest railroad in the world. Its main line went from Cairo, Illinois, at the southern tip of the state, to Galena, in the northwest corner. A branch line went from Centralia (named for the railroad) to the rapidly growing city of Chicago. In Chicago its tracks were laid along the shore of Lake Michigan and on an offshore causeway downtown, but landfilling and natural deposition have moved the present-day shore to the east.
In 1867 the Illinois Central extended its track into Iowa, and during the 1870s and 1880s the IC acquired and expanded railroads in the southern United States. IC lines crisscrossed the state of Mississippi and went as far as New Orleans, Louisiana to the south and Louisville, Kentucky in the east. In the 1880s, northern lines were built to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Omaha, Nebraska. Further expansion continued into the early twentieth century.
The totals above do not include the Waterloo RR, Batesville Southwestern, Peabody Short Line or CofG and its subsidiaries. On December 31, 1925 IC/Y&MV/G&SI operated 6,562 route-miles on 11,030 miles of track; A&V and VS&P added 330 route-miles and 491 track-miles. At the end of 1970 IC operated 6,761 miles of road and 11,159 of track.
On August 10, 1972 the Illinois Central Railroad merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (reporting mark ICG). On October 30 that year the Illinois Central Gulf commuter rail crash, the company's deadliest, occurred. In the 1980s the railroad spun off most of its east-west lines and many of its redundant north-south lines, including much of the former GM&O. Most of these lines were bought by other railroads, including entirely new railroads such as the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway, Paducah and Louisville Railway and Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad. In 1988 the railroad's then parent company IC Industries spun off its remaining rail assets and changed its name to the Whitman Corporation (which became PepsiAmericas in 2000 and acquired outright by PepsiCo in 2010). On February 29 of that year the newly separated ICG dropped the "Gulf" from its name and again became the Illinois Central Railroad.
At the end of 1980 ICG operated 8366 miles of railroad on 13532 miles of track; that year it reported 33276 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 323 million passenger-miles.
On February 11, 1998 the IC was purchased by the Canadian National Railway (CN) with the integration of operations beginning on July 1, 1999.
IC steam locomotive, photo taken in November, 1942
IC locomotive No.6000, EMD SD40-2R(Ex-SD40) just outside of Schoolcraft, MI, waiting on a north bound CN freight train.
Just outside of Schoolcraft, MI, IC locomotive No.9636, a GP38-2, going northbound to Battle Creek.
IC locomotive No.9612, still in Canadian National livery, sitting in a siding with about 6 cars coupled to it in Pavilion, MI, on June 18, 2008.
A preserved Illinois Central GP11 locomotive on static display in downtown Carbondale, Illinois.
Canadian National 6226 and Illinois Central 3102 idling at Dubuque, Iowa
The Illinois Central was a major carrier of passengers on its Chicago to New Orleans mainline and between Chicago and St. Louis. IC also ran passengers on its Chicago to Omaha line, though it was never among the top performers on this route. Illinois Central's largest passenger terminal, Central Station, stood at 12th Street east of Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Due to the railroad's north-south route from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, Illinois Central passenger trains were one means of transport during the African American Great Migration of the 1920s.
Illinois Central's most famous train was the Panama Limited, a premier all-Pullman car service between Chicago, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans. In 1967, due to losses incurred by the operation of the train, the Illinois Central combined the Panama Limited with a coach-only train called the Magnolia Star. On May 1, 1971 Amtrak took over the operation of the service, but shortly afterward dropped the name in favor of the City of New Orleans, a daytime streamlined coach train that had been operated by the Illinois Central whose name was popularized by a song written by Steve Goodman and performed by Arlo Guthrie: Willie Nelson's recording of the song was #1 in 1984. Illinois Central ran several other trains along the main route including The Creole and The Louisiane.
The Green Diamond was the Illinois Central's premier train between Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis. Other important trains included the Hawkeye which ran daily between Chicago and Sioux City and the City of Miami eventually running every other day between Chicago and Miami via the Atlantic Coast Line, the Central of Georgia Railroad and Florida East Coast Railway.
The Illinois Central was always a major Chicago commuter line operating electrified trains from its Michigan Avenue stations to the southeast suburbs until this traffic was assumed by Metra.
After 1971 Amtrak operated the Panama Limited, later renamed City of New Orleans, over the Illinois Central mainline and the Shawnee between Chicago and Carbondale, Illinois. Amtrak presently runs three trains daily over this route, the City of New Orleans and the Illini and Saluki between Chicago and Carbondale. Another Illinois corridor service is planned for the former "Blackhawk" route between Chicago, Rockford and Dubuque. Amtrak, at the state of Illinois' request, did a recent feasibility study to reinstate the Black Hawk route to Rockford and Dubuque. Initial capital costs range from $32 million to $55 million, depending on the route. Once in operation, the service would require roughly $5 million a year in subsidies from the state.[3] On December 10, 2010, IDOT announced the route choice for the resumption of service to begin in 2014 going over mostly CN railway.[4]
Presidents of the Illinois Central Railroad have included:
Some historic equipment owned and used by Illinois Central can be found in museums across the United States, including:
The original Mississippi Central line was chartered in 1852. Construction began in 1853 and the line was completed in 1860, just prior to the Civil War, from Canton, Mississippi to Jackson, Tennessee.[7] The southern terminus of the line connected to the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad at Canton. It also connected to the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction, Tennessee and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson, Tennessee. The Mississippi Central was the scene of several military actions from 1862–1863 and was severely damaged during the fighting.[8] Company president, Absolom M. West succeeded in repairing the damage and returning it to operating condition soon after the end of the War. The original Mississippi Central line was merged into the Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad in several transactions finally completed in 1878.[9]
A line started in 1897 as the "Pearl and Leaf Rivers Railroad" was built by the J.J. Newman Lumber Company from Hattiesburg, to Sumrall. In 1904 the name was changed to the Mississippi Central Railroad (reporting mark MSC). In 1906 the Natchez and Eastern Railway was formed to build a rail line from Natchez to Brookhaven. In 1909 this line was absorbed by the Mississippi Central.
For a short time during the 1920s, the line operated a service named "The Natchez Route", running trains from Natchez to Mobile, Alabama through trackage agreements with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad. At Natchez, freight cars were ferried across the Mississippi River to connect with the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway to institute through traffic into Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1967 the property of the Mississippi Central was sold to the Illinois Central Railroad.[10]
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Thousands of road bikers will return to Summit County again this summer for the 29th annual Ride the Rockies cycling tour. Ride organizers released the official course map for the charity ride Sunday, Feb. 9. The 473-mile ride will start this year in Boulder and wind its way through the Rockies before finishing in Golden.
"Our 29th tour showcases some of Colorado's finest communities, a number of which are renowned for world-class skiing, but it's their summertime activities that make them desirable destinations year-round," tour director Chandler Smith said. "A Front Range start and finish should appeal to the masses and make for an enjoyable experience all week."
The six-day ride — June 7-13 — will cover 28,265 vertical feet and cross six mountain passes. After leaving Boulder the course will make stops in Winter Park, Steamboat Springs, Avon and Breckenridge. After covering the 75 miles between Avon and Breckenridge — over Tennessee and Fremont passes — the ride's final 80-mile stage will head from Breckenridge to Golden over Loveland Pass and Lookout Mountain. Along the way riders will also pass over Berthoud, Muddy and Rabbit Ears passes.
Ride the Rockies is a non-competitive event that riders can complete at their own pace. Proceeds from the ride benefit The Denver Post Community Foundation, which distributes funds to a number of Colorado nonprofits. Host communities like Breckenridge also receive a $5,000 grant for a local nonprofit from The Denver Post Community Foundation in partnership with Wells Fargo.
Cyclists can register online for the event, but only a select number of participants are chosen through a lottery system. Organizers expect around 3,500 applicants for 2,000 spots. Applications are accepted from Feb. 9 to March 2.
More information is available at http://www.ridetherockies.com
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I didn't live this past weekend as much as pray to wake up.
I think many of us felt that way, after the nightmare of last Friday. How can we go on, with hearts shattered by sorrow? It is too much. It is pain beyond imagination, evil beyond description.
So we lament, and our souls don sackcloth and ashes and we seek respite in the sweet innocence of children.
That is how I cope, now that I'm a parent. Natalie was just 6 weeks old when evil tore into the Twin Towers, and life was forever marked by before and after. I cradled my newborn and kissed her head and I didn't put her down for days. My tears wet her hair, and I would occasionally look away from the TV and look down at her tiny body as she nursed, and she would be staring at me with her hazel eyes, a gaze of pure love and trust. And fear dissolved away, like snow in the rain.
It's always been that way. During the darkest days of our marriage, Connor was a newborn, Natalie a toddler. I sought refuge in their simple routines, in their laughter and innocence. And this past weekend, I found myself touching Teyla's curls more often, embracing Kieran's constant touch. I let the laughter of Natalie and Connor wash over me like a healing balm.
They know little of evil, these children of mine. We don't watch the news, and their lives are sheltered and safe, as it should be.
As it should be.
But Natalie, my oldest, she is 11 and in sixth grade. She has entered the in-between land where she is not yet adult, yet not quite child. I knew, last night, I had to tell her. Her teacher sent a note home Friday afternoon and said the entire school staff was broken with the news of the day, but they declined to tell the students themselves, believing that was a task better left to the parents.
I swayed on that cliff for three days. A large part of me wanted to keep Natalie's bubble of naivete. Life's malignancy will stain her soon enough, and Corey and I both know there is a trickle down effect in a group of siblings. By keeping Natalie blissfully unaware, we protect the collective.
But the deeper part of me knew this was the time. She is in sixth grade. Many of her classmates are the youngest in their families, exposed to so much more than she. I didn't want her to be the only one at prayer time this morning wondering what Miss Johnson was talking about.
So last night, in a brief moment alone as I cleaned up the kitchen, I looked her deep in the eyes and told her of Friday. Just the barest details, but enough. And I watched her face crumble with disbelief and then horror and then utter grief. Her eyes pooled with tears and she threw her head on the counter and started to weep.
I walked over and held her. And I wept too.
Eden is fouled.
Innocence lost.
It should not be.
Innocence Lost
Posted by Kelly @ Love Well on Monday, December 17, 2012
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It should not be. Crying again with you and with Natalie. Love you both so much.ReplyDelete
Heartbreaking on so many levels. Longing for Heaven.ReplyDelete
Crying with you and Natalie.ReplyDelete
In many ways, so many more than those 26 were killed. Some are just still breathing.ReplyDelete
Hugs to you and your sweet girl.
Oh, Natalie. Us, too, honey. Us, too.ReplyDelete
no words here, just sobs.ReplyDelete
I can't imagine how hard that must have been. Bless her sweet broken heart. Bless all of ours...ReplyDelete
What else can we say but, "Jesus".ReplyDelete
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