Day 1404 – A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

Sunday November 22, 2020

    Election Day -19

58 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

“Thanksgiving on Zoom is better than Christmas in the ICU.” – Anon (or someone whose name I can’t remember)

“I read the news today – oh boy” Headline after headline, state after state, the number of Covid cases is rising. It’s not a slow rise, it’s a rocket trail straight up as it gets.

I wonder how the governors of North and South Dakota are excusing their earlier defiant behavior?

Meanwhile, Satan continues to try and overthrow the election and gum up the transition. This is like a bad movie you can’t stop watching.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez made a good point a few days ago. She pointed out that the people who lost their elections had no digital campaign. They were moderate candidates, not the progressives, and they had no digital ground game. Hum, maybe making suggestions and taking actions that would really help people is the way to go? Oh no, wait, that’s too – what would you call it? – Progressive?

As I took a walk around the neighborhood I saw smoke, like smoke from a grill. It kind of wafted about and didn’t really rise. The air was calm. The look of the smoke wasn’t right for charcoal, and it wasn’t the acrid smell from a house fire, I recognized the look and the smell. It took some time to recall when last I had seen and smelled such smoke.

I was riding with my mother in Auntie’s ’39 Buick. We were on the straightaway on Peaceable Street. There were leaves, raked into the gutter along the road. They were burning. White smoke rose up from red embers.

Someone was burning leaves!

Memories of my childhood.

Good memories. Good sights and smells.

PS The smoke from leaves burning.