Weather? When I was young, in New York, June was sunny and warm. July
was sunny and hot. August was muggy, sometimes rainy, sometimes sunny, until
the end when we would have one or two cooler sunny days to remind us that
autumn was on the way. It has been hot and muggy for days now. We've had some
rain and some thunder. Back in the old days, thunder storms were reserved for
the end of July and August. Today is cloudy, hot and muggy, with rainstorms
forecast for the afternoon.
Car trips. We were working class city people with no real need for a car
because New York City had good, inexpensive, public transportation. But when I
was nine or ten years old, my father bought a car. The first one was a
Chevrolet. The color was crystal green and my very fashion conscious mother
just loved that color. Each summer, we would travel by car to Montreal to visit
my father's family. It would be a slow, rambling trip up through New York State
with stops at various tourist attractions like Niagara Falls, and back home
through New England. There was a wonderful restaurant called, The Springs,
somewhere in Massachusetts, that we stumbled on one year and where we made sure
to return each year. Two of my father's brothers had also emigrated from Canada
to the US and one year, one of them, with his wife and son, traveled back to
Montreal with us. No rambling that time, just one or two very long days of
riding in a car. But that was the year, I think, that after we visited the
family in Montreal, we traveled to the Mountains in Quebec Province for
vacation. But we couldn't find a hotel because no one would allow Jews. One
place said we could stay in a cabin, but we weren't allowed in the dining room.
So we kept riding. And then we saw a beautiful hotel on an island in the middle
of a lake. We were sure that since it looked so fancy, we would surely be
excluded from there too, but we thought we'd try anyway. Luckily, the owner was
Jewish. We were allowed in and absolutely loved our stay there.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2019 11:49 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Fwd: An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism,
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More | Daily Digest 07/05/2019
Hi Miriam...and anyone else still recovering from the Fourth of July.
Rereading is probably more related to temperate, as you say, rather than age
related. But I wonder how it is that you continue to read...or at least skim
my posts, since redundancy is my middle name.
I always figured that I just had a limited vocabulary. Not like our friend in
Egypt!
It's Saturday, July Sixth, and it's raining. All night it rained.
20%, the weather person said. Well Mister/Missus Weather person, we got 20%
five times! It reminds me of the many times we put the four man surplus Army
tent in the trunk of our old Hudson, called the Family Bus, and tossed in some
food and sleeping bedding, and headed out on a sort of sunny July Fourth,
looking to commune with Nature.
Sometimes we drove down the Coast into Oregon and sometimes we headed up toward
Bellingham. I liked it best when we turned the Family Bus toward the East, and
wound up at grandma and grandpa's farm in the Spokane Valley. No sleeping on
lumpy rocks at grandma's. Sure, the beds were old and lumpy and sagged to the
middle, but it was dry and hot and beat the rain that was falling on the Coast.
It seemed to always rain over Fourth of July weekend. Come to think of it, it
always seemed to rain on Memorial Day weekend...and Labor Day weekend, too.
And it was always a fine, soaking rain. Mother called it, "Oregon Mist". Then
she would add, "It mist Oregon and hit Washington".
Something I learned early on...well, a couple of things, was that Four Man Army
Surplus Tents are made to accommodate three undersized soldiers. We had two
fairly large adults and three varying sizes of children. Crowded was a bad
joke. It was impossible to crawl out over sleeping bodies if you had to go out
in the middle of the night...and there was only one compelling reason anyone in
their right mind would crawl out of the safety of that four man tent, into the
wet, clammy, very dark night. And the other important thing I learned about
canvas tents and rain, Do Not Touch the Canvas when it is raining. Mother and
Dad told us this warning every time we headed out...in the rain. You would
think that the first time we disobeyed them, we would never touch the tent's
canvas roof. As soon as a stray finger explored the tents surface, a drop of
water would form. And there was no way to put it back. It would draw more
water into itself and then drop...splat!
And another drop would form...
This foolishness always happened, but always over my sisters or myself. Never,
ever did anyone touch the tent above our parents.
They slept warm and dry while us three kids wiggled and squirmed while trying
to avoid the drips.
One time we found a beautiful valley in Western Oregon, accessible only by a
couple of ruts that went straight down the edge of a high rock wall and a steep
drop off on the other side. We pitched...or actually we struggled the tent
into an upright position and then began slapping our arms and necks. We saw no
mosquitoes, but little welts began rising up on our exposed skin. "No See
ums'!" my dad announced.
"You can't see them because all there is to them are teeth with wings". After
we tired of slapping, we hauled down the tent and crawled back up that rutty
road with the windows all rolled up. That was another joy in summer camping
trips. Old 1938 Hudson's were roomy, but air conditioning was available only
by cranking down the windows. One trip through Roseburg, Oregon it was 105
degrees, with that hot sun beating down on an all metal car. That trip we had
five adults and Mimi, our small family dog of many breeds.
Poor Mimi, she hated long trips, but had to go because she had bonded with
Mother. She always threw up within the first hour. Then she was fine for the
rest of the outing, no matter how many days we were gone.
That is when Mimi became "Our dog", meaning my sister's and mine. We got to
clean the pukey newspaper out of her box and toss the stinking mess into a
waste barrel when we stopped for gas...or had to put water in our boiling
radiator...or add air to our soft tires.
You would think that such memories would guarantee that I would live deep in
the heart of a large city. But something about heading into the unknown moved
my heart and Soul...and moved us finally to our ten acre horse farm in the
wilds of the Great Olympic Peninsula...where I've never met a tree I didn't
like.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/6/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
There are a lot of young people who read books over and over again. It
has nothing to do with age. I know because of what people write on the
DB Review list. And when I listen to these podcasts, I'm hearing the
same subjects discussed repeatedly, but sometimes with new facts
thrown into the mix. I just don't like hearing the same words repeated. I
guess it's temperament.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 9:46 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Fwd: An Hour with Noam Chomsky on
Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More |
Daily Digest
07/05/2019
Miriam,
It's one of those subtle signs that I'm getting long in the tooth. I
used to read or listen to information, or read a novel, and never
dream of wasting my time reading or listening to it again...ever! But
in recent years I find myself listening to the same articles or the
same speakers, and actually learning new information...again.
I'm sure that this relaxing of my mental process is not the only
indication of the aging process, but being blind, I never worry about
what would stare back at me from my mirror.
I do chuckle when Cathy and I return home after working with two
clients, and we can barely stagger into our recliners. When we began
back in 1995, we saw two clients in the morning and two clients
following lunch. And we worked five days a week in the field, not
just Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and we wrote our reports in the late
evening.
If I kept that sort of schedule today, I'd last about one day...and no
reports would ever be written.
By the way, I read A People's History of the United States, twice.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/5/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Again, another repeat. I've just learned from experience that on
holidays, Democracy Now repeats past performances. I may be weird,
but just like I don't reread books, I don't listen to repeat programs.
Happily, I had plenty of podcasts to listen to yesterday and if there
aren't enough today, I have more than enough books. I've just
unsubscribed from my second New York Times podcast. The first was The
Daily, because I didn't like the way they framed most of the news
stories they presented. It felt like a well planned propaganda
presentation. Now, I've deleted The Argument. The most left wing of
the three presenters, is, from my point of view, just slightly left
of the center of the Democratic Party. They're supposed to be
providing a right of center, center left, and leftist view of issues.
That's ridiculous.
There's a whole spectrum of viewpoints on the left that they're omitting.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 9:50 AM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Fwd: An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism,
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More | Daily Digest
07/05/2019
From the mind of our nation's leading elder statesman, to your ears.
An address from this past April, and an interview by Amy Goodman.
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons,
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