Archive for November, 2014
Election Day Blues
I have the election day blues, just overcome with sadness. Faced with decisions, not about which able candidate should get my vote, but is any one of them able enough to get my vote at all. My dilemmas: Do I vote for “the person” or “the platform”. We have become so intolerant, so “politically correct” […]
Blood Poppies
The English are marking the 100th anniversary of WWI rather spectacularly. Starting in August and running through November 11, Armistice Day, red poppies are being “planted” around the Tower of London. Each poppy marks each the death of a British soldier. What a great way to remember and even to conceptualize 888,246 deaths.