Book-club recommendation

As most of you probably know I accidentally joined a book-club.

I'm actually starting to like it.

But I still don't have "privileges"

(i.e., I can't add my recommendations to the website)

So I'm putting them here.

I think we should read Up from slavery

By Booker T. Washington

I just listened to some of it,

and I think it would be really good for people to read.

I like it enough that I may purchase it (and that's saying something).

My other suggestion is a book that has apparently been cycling through my family:

The Invention of Hugo Cabret. by David Brian Selznick

When we feel like something more recreational.

Two completely different kinds of books,

but two that would definitely be right up the book club alley

Seriously.

ttfn

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Ignorance and Arrogance

It's funny the thing people say. Ok sometimes it's funny.
But this time it just bugged me.

I'm trying not to say mean things,
but seriously... We were talking about the three R's and how important they are, and this kid says
Oh yeah "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" It was a valiant effort, but he was wrong.
I let him know that we were talking about the other three R's
the original 3

Reading, wRiting, and aRithmatic.
Now I could see his point when he said they didn't all start with 'R.'
and how stupid that was,
but when he told me that his people didn't need these things I was um livid.
Of all the things that a person could be arrogant about, the last thing I expect
it to be is ignorance. It was almost like a badge he wore.
I'm too good for that.
Who needs those 'common' things anyway.

I know that there are a lot of things that I don't know,
but for the most part that's not something I'm proud of,
it's something to fix.

But then what do I know.

a word from TJ

Yeah, I'm quoting him,

It makes an interesting foundation or reference to some of the things that I may one day have time to write here.

So here it is...

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40

ttfn

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There was a farmer had a cow.
This story's not about him.
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But there was a farmer had Zucchini
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It all began in the spring of 2008.
A man called Bryson set forth a grand Challenge.
A Challenge to grow.
... grow a garden that is.

and the people responded.
and their gardens did grow.



and grow.



and grow.


And before you knew it, there was an abundance of fruits and veggies,
and zucchini, did I mention zucchini?

Well with plenty of food, and a little to spare,
an idea was hatched.

A farmers market.
Yeah you've heard that one I know.

but this one is local.
Like in the neighborhood.

700 is where it will start,
but it may move to 11th (a place you might guess)
if the circumstances change.

So when does it start?
Next week August ninth.
It should be somewhere around 255
(I'm guessing it will be easy enough to spot).

Some will be cheap,
and some will be free,
and some... well, you'll just have to see.

I'm actually excited.
it could be quite fun.
so ttfn
and perhaps I'll see you there sometime.
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