This blog is created to allow me an outlet for various thoughts and rantings, recipes and miscellaneous meanderings that come to mind.
I admit to being a person of many interests. I cannot pass up a bookstore without walking in. I cannot watch C-Span's Book-TV without wishing to read the book discussed.
My family has always been interested in Politics, and the conversation at the dinner table was often about local politics in Alabama. I support several political organizations and have worked on several democratic campaigns.
Even though I confess to being an atheist, my Judeo-Christian childhood calls Biblical verses to mind whenever they seem appropriate. I support a Universal-Unitarian Church monetarily to a small extent. I have trouble with some of the tenets professed by the "Apostles' Creed". I admire John Shelby Spong, retired Bishop of Newark, New Jersey.
I study the American Civil War, and I will be installed President of my Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865 January 2007. It will be my second time in this office. My Great-grandfather Potter was in the Wisconsin 1st Light Artilliary and the 89th Illinois Infantry. My grandmother's uncle Lt. George W. Seaman was in the Confederate Army. I've lost track of him after his trial for horse stealing in Lewis County, Kentucky in 1865.
My dog is a retired Champion Papillon bitch named Wildways Pentangle Pennyroyal. She has been with me since June 2005, and we have a lot in common: two retired old ladies who like a certain amount of exercise interspersed with naps!
Now that I have created this blog, I hope I can find it again, and add to it.
Historybuff
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2nd posting. We'll see if this works.
On December 31, 1941 my mother woked up my little sister and me to wish us Happy New Year. I was just 5 and my sister, 20 months younger. A new year? What was that?
All that we could see was that Mother was crying. She held us tight and prayed that our little family would be together the next year.
On December 8, still rocking from the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor the day before, my mother had received a letter from my father, who wrote from Guam. She knew he had gotten a job with PanAm Airways, but up to receipt of the letter she didn't know whether he had gone on to the Manila Pan Am operation as he had hoped to do.
By New Year's Eve, my mother knew that Guam had been surrendered and occupied by the Japanese. We didn't know the fate of the PanAm men for some time to come.
We were to see 3 more New Years before we saw our Daddy again. New Years' happy celebrations were forever after a puzzle to me. Even to this day, I, at the age of 70, am sad on December 31.
All over the US, and perhaps, the world, little children miss their parents. Some will never see them again. I cry for those men and women who are dying in Iraq, but mostly I cry for the children.
Historybuff
Today is A Good Day for Women! Nancy Pelosi ascended to the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives on this day.
I was thinking, this morning, that women's voices were never heard on radio when I was a teenager unless it was a singer. I recall that I thought men's voices were far nicer sounding over the air. Now I have a niece on the radio, and I listen to AirAmerica with Randi Rhodes, Laura Flanders, Stephani Miller, etc. If I was running for Congress, I'd be called a flip flopper. Flip floppers are people who are able to alter their opinions based on new knowledge. Some Congressmen voted in favor of war, and then voted against it.
I think I am in good company.
Historybuff
The day after Martin Luther King Day.
Racism is still alive, dear Doctor King. The only time your little black boys and girls join hands with little white boys and girls is on your birthday.
The guest speaker at my UU Church on Sunday before your birthday this year wondered aloud whether we have really "overcome". Judging from an e-mail I received today, the answer is "no".
The All People's Breakfast yesterday in San Diego was well attended, but there were no blacks at the table reserved by the Peace Resource Center whose guest I was.
Historybuff
I hope to enter my story aboout George W. Seaman one of these days. He was my Grandmother Potter's Uncle who was in the "Ragamuffin brigade" not the Orphan Brigade. 5 Kentucky Mounted Rifles under Humphrey Marshall.
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