UPDATE June 2: Previous and related posts: May 27, 29 and 30. Column by Ruhel Islam’s daughter in June 1, Washington Post, here. John Noltner, A Piece of My Mind, has been interviewing people at 38th and Chicago, you can see these here. PHOTOS AND MORE ADDED TO JUNE 1 POST. The future of our nation […]
Other related posts at May 27, 29 and 31 Today is beautiful in the Twin Cities – as WCCO-TV will correctly be able to say, “another Top Ten weather day”. Of course, a day is much more than “weather”…. My walk is always good reflection time, and this morning I thought back to a long ago […]
Other related posts at May 27, 30 and May 31. May 30, 2020: I have lived, worked and travelled a great deal in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of over 3,000,000 people for most of the last 55 years, and I am not living in fear today, nor have I in the past. This is […]
Other related posts at May 29, 30 and May 31. I knew the latest Minneapolis police incident would be front page news this morning. All I didn’t know was exactly what it would look like. Here’s the ‘above the fold’. There will be a lot more to say about this, and other similar news. We […]
See also, here. This post includes a May 24 Letter from an American that deals specifically with the 100,000 casualties, thus far, from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Peter Barus’ May 22 post, here, has much food for thought for all of us, relating to the current state of our country and the globe itself. Take the […]
Friend Molly occasionally sends around a few friends on her mailing list. Here’s the weekend version, less than a page: Molly May 23, 2020 (click on image to enlarge it) May 24: from Joyce, Letter from an American. * This is not an ordinary Memorial Day. This year there will be no in-person gathering:no permit for […]
Peter and I have been on-line friends for nearing 20 years, and recently he sent me a post initially sent to “friends and family”, included a blog post he published in Op Ed News. The correspondence is sent along with his permission. The letter and two links are very much worth your time. Photo with […]
Message on back of work uniform at local McDonald’s: “Keep calm, wash your hands” – an apparent and appropriate message for both customer and server. Last year, September 11, 2019, I observed and commented that the children born on Sep 11, 2001, were all having their 18th birthday. It is now about nine months later, […]
Last week, enroute to an auto tour of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, I took a wrong turn and found myself in another neighborhood of Chaska, the 1960s era new town of Jonathan, now a large neighborhood of Chaska. I first saw this development about 1970, when we drove down from rural Anoka to […]
For another, and excellent, view of Mothers Day, read Heather Cox Richardson, here. (See in addition Bob’s comment at the end of this post.) * There are an infinite variety of Moms (which I choose to leave without boundaries of gender, age or marital status). I’ve been thinking about “Moms”, and I invite you to […]