When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurlyburly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.
That will be ere the set of sun.

I’m back from Maine. That’s me on the right, looking relaxed and rather pudgey. And that’s our Solstice sand ritual image above.
I’m doing laundry, waiting to hear from my mom’s doctor ’cause I have to get her in to find out why she’s gettng such severe leg cramps — so I’ll post more about our great vacation later.
Suffice it for now to know that we spent the week beaching, eating, reading, walking, and Boggling. And laughing. A lot.

October 25, 1913 – December 26, 1984
You can’t find my Dad on Google, even though, in his time, he was active and well-known behind the scenes in my hometown politics — especially among the Polish population.
Today, I think of how proud my Dad would be and how much he would love his grandson, b!X, to whom I managed to give birth on my father’s birthday. (That’s them, together, celebrating one of them.) And his great-grandson? (His amazing granddaughter’s offspring — that’s him in the bottom corner.) Well, my Dad would be beside himself with delight.
Today, Dad, I’m remembering the standards for integrity, compassion, and generosity that your example set for the whole family. I wish that my grandson would have had a chance to know you.

I’ve finally caught up with all of the comments that Klondike Kate left me. I sure hope that Frank Paynter gets around to interviewing her. She’s another gem. One of the older/wiser ones.
My mother is prepared with six days of food and a goodly list of emergency phone numbers.
My car is packed with all the essentials: hair gel; prescription meds; shorts, t-shirts, and jeans; digital camera; Newman

There

Frank Paynter’s interview with Betsy Devine has landed. Now you know why I think she’s such a marvel.

Got this in an email from the Howard Dean listserv that I’m on:
National Debt and Bush: the numbers
National debt when Bush entered office: $5,727,776,738,304.64
National debt as of June 9, 2003: $6,578,826,704,876.87
Total debt added during Bush’s term: $851,049,966,572.23
Number of days Bush has been president: 870
Debt added per day:
$978,218,352.38 (That’s right, nearly $1 BILLION dollars a day in new debt.)
Total debt added if Bush is re-elected:
$2,858,354,025,659.84 (assuming same pace of debt accumulation. That’s nearly 3 trillion.)
Total debt at end of Bush’s 2nd term:
$8,586,130,763,964.48 (assuming same pace of debt accumulation. That’s close to 9 trillion)
Those numbers are only going to get worse. CBO just said the debt for Fiscal Year 2003 is going to be over $400 billion, a record in nominal terms.
What is wrong with my fellow Americans who still think that this guy is doing us any good at all???

All around me, the greats of the blogging world are discoursing about how and why people use their blogs. I know these are the

One of my long-time heroes, Bill Moyers, again tells it with eloquent honesty in the text of his speech to the ‘Take Back America’ Conference held June 4, 2003 in Washington, DC.
In it, he says:
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality