I Grieve

“I Grieve” by Peter Gabriel, really captures the feeling I had that morning, 9/11/01 For a bit of the story behind it: http://youtu.be/xevktulRhxw ✏

That Day – revisited

(reposted from 2004) Cox & Forkum Go see the image at their site I was asleep when the first plane hit. When I woke up I went to my computer and logged on – it’s just what I do. No radio or TV turned on yet, so I am still completely in the dark. Then […]

Memorial Day, 2010

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USS Arizona Memorial

More pictures of the ship & crew in this video, but the music they chose is all wrong for the subject. ✏

Sad News

This sweet puppy, who belonged to our bookkeeper and family friend, died this afternoon. She was about the same age as our puppies, but much, much smaller. Very much a princess, very much a little love. My heart aches for her heartbroken mommy. ✏

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They Said It:

Patrick Henry and other members of the founding generation worried about the probability of congressional excesses—what Madison called indecency—and were they alive to see how lavishly congressmen reward themselves today, they would surely be appalled. Across the board, the Founding Fathers viewed service in the government as a duty rather than a station. That, more than anything else, is what separates the founding generation from the political class today.

— Brion McClanahan