Or Keyboard Away from Me.
Two days without internet (a lightning strike fried our modem), and we begin to feel very isolated. It was nice to see Selby for more than a few minutes at a time, though.
;-)
Donald is away in Vernon because his mother's being discharged from the hospital today. She's made an amazing recovery so far, and she's going back to her apartment where she lives very independently. Selby and I are keeping the home fires burning. (It actually is cold enough for a fire in the evenings!)
While he's that close to Princeton, he's going to stop and visit with his Aunt Grace as well, and he will be back on Sunday.
The most excitement we've had in his absence was a coyote performance (howling and barking) in the neighborhood sometime after midnight last night. Selby and I took the industrial strength flashlight (or is it a floodlight?) and checked on the rabbits and chickens. As I panned across the forest with the flashlight, I saw a pair of glowing orange eyes looking back at me, but I think they belonged to a deer. Either that, or that was one tall coyote. They drive our dog Maggie insane, and she's not about to let them on her property.
I listened to the so-called "dueling speeches" on national security yesterday and was struck by the paradox we find ourselves in: what was "new" thinking in the last administration is now "old" thinking, but what is new thinking now is old in its commitment to our Constitution and our founding values. I'm with Green Day on this: "Silence is the enemy. Give me revolution!"
Speaking of which, I am waiting impatiently for my pre-ordered copy of 21st Century Breakdown to arrive. Lindsay has already listened to it, and she seconds the Rolling Stone's comment that this album makes American Idiot sound like a warm up. I can't even imagine that.
Book report: Finished The Birth House. If you can suspend your suspicion of too-convenient conclusions, it is an excellent read. Now I am on to--should I confess that I read this series??--Miss Julia Stands Her Ground by Ann Ross. These are light novels about the very provincial concerns of inhabitants of a small Southern town: the literary equivalent of eating M&Ms. What's summer vacation for??
2 comments:
Hi! It's Angela Escobar from fall '08 banned books! I was looking for your email to ask if you'd listened to 21st Century yet and found your blog, and there you are, mentioning the album (I knew you'd want it!). I LOVE it - I even like it better than "American Idiot" which I didn't think possible "peacemaker" is my new fave song. We're going to see them, the kids, too, when they're here in Aug.
I hope you're having a great summer. You're in weather cool enough for evening fires while I was thrilled to see we'd be right at 100 all week. :-)
Take care and look for me in a class hopefully this fall - I still haven't taken my writing assessment test. I took women's studies classes last semester.
Thinking of you,
Ang
Angela, I'm going to the GD concert, too, and taking my two daughters!! I do love 21st Century Breakdown, though American Idiot will always have a special place in my heart because it was such an act of raw courage and honesty at the time it was published.
SO glad to hear from you!!
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