In the weeks leading up to the election, my internet life revolved around a couple of political blogs, with quick visits to Facebook for relief. (Not much relief there, as the cohort fretted as much over the campaign as I did.) As a distraction, I could worry about finances - ugh.
And now the election is over - but we still have a scary economy, and a frustrating interregnum, longest in the civilized world (let's not talk about Zimbabwe, where all parties are trying to sort out an election that happened last spring...)
Meanwhile, I turn to books (see previous post) and music. This fall I'm playing in a community orchestra as well as the Sousa Band. Some weeks that means three rehearsals - band, orchestra, and choir. So far this fall Sousa Band has played a couple of gigs (where we are usually squeezed into very small performing spaces, and it is a distinct disadvantage to play an instrument that you hold out to the side!) We have one more performance before going on winter hiatus. Orchestra and choir concerts are coming up.
My brother and I finally caught up this week. Reason we missed each other at the airport is that he took a different way out of customs in order to change planes. I waited at the top of the stairs where arriving passengers usually appear. Since I hadn't brought my cell phone (and he didn't have the number anyway) we never connected.
Their group had many thought-provoking experiences in India, especially in the orphanage where they did some work, and the "rescue house," a shelter for women rescued from prostitution (where some of the "women" were 10 and 11 years old.)
Their next trip is to Peru. I'm thinking of asking to be the token Unitarian among the Nazarenes.
For a couple of days it has NOT RAINED. Tonight I looked east over the lake in time to see the waning (but still fat) moon come up, bright orange behind streaks of black cloud. For a few minutes it resembled the saggy pumpkins decaying on front steps and balconies around the neighborhood. No time to get a picture - moonrise is swift.
Big anti-prop 8 demonstration in Seattle today. Counter-demonstrators were in place, promising fire and brimstone for sinners, but there were a lot of straight families out to support their gay friends.
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I saw a photo of one guy with a sign that said "Jesus had two dads." Kind of makes him a counter-counter demonstrator, I think. As I just said on my blog, I think passage of Prop 8 is probably the best thing that could have happened for the movement. Nothing like a major setback to rally the forces of good.
I agree. Your post sums it up really well.
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