Hello good morning,
I know you've been waiting for this. I'm off on another adventure though I must leave the "children", my two kitties with various sitters. I didn't think it would be fair to just have one person watch them for three weeks and Lisa is clear she isn't staying behind to cat sit. They are two kittens I rescued from the Nevada animal shelter. I don't know why they call these things animal shelters when they kill them. Such oxymoron's I find and see in life. Life insurance for the dead etc... I could go on for days. One of them is Mississippi. I know I'm suppose to be writing about our up coming travels but I must talk get this off my chest.
Mississippi. I remember learning to spell it with my sister. I had so much fun doing it. M i crooked letter, crooked letter and so on. It has always gotten bad press even from other southern state. I lived in Virginia in a small town on the border of North Carolina. Much of the south doesn't call Virginia southern. People from Carolina laugh when you say I'm from the south and mention Virginia in the same sentences. Part of the reason is slavery was brutal and Mississippi lead the charge in its brutality and ugliness of it all. Since slavery, Jim Crow laws and other amendments and things it hasn't changed much. Really. I drive through Mississippi a lot and until the stimulus money given to them from President Obama the roads were horrible. Their rest stops on major highways old decaying and neglected. With the stimulus money they built new ones. The irony is that they look like plantations. I would think they move away from that part of their horrible history and modernize. But noooooo.
So lets give it back to France. When it comes to some things they are just broke. Humpty Dumpty couldn't be fixed either. It has been last in everything since air. As a child I remember the education reports, poverty reports, employment reports and Mississippi was dead last, broke and not a place ambitious people desired to live or raise a family. Let's be honest. How many young people are saying "I can't wait to get to Mississippi." None. Who says "when I grow up I'm going to Jackson, Mississippi or any old Miss school. Nobody but folks in Mississippi probably. It is a failed state. In education it has been last for four decades and counting. It hasn't attracted the workforce because its intelligent property is lacking as well as an infrastructure of good schools, resources besides lynching people of color or beating them up in parking lots as they leave work. All of this has happened in the new millennium not the sixties. Yes, I'm being fair. It just drags the country down. The entire state does and to be honest giving it back to France can save us. No one gets to leave that was born in the state of Mississippi. Those who weren't can cross the border over to Louisiana or Alabama but the rest of the lot can just stay in their new territory and get passports. That will be new for most of the people born in that state. Maybe France with its espresso and exotic sounding words can create a miracle. Seriously it is a failed state. When we see and hear what is happening in European Union and the possibility of Greece failing the same can be applied to states. Can we kick them out if they don't live up to standards of other states that are making progress in quality of life issues, growth, job employment and managing their resources productively. Can we? We would not miss it. France can have everything but the coastline. Of course Biloxi must stay part of the America.
Now on to what this blog is really about. I'm going park hopping and writing too. I redid my outline for "Madison" and it is work. I'm not putting pressure on myself inside my head. I must remember to incorporate meditation back into my life. It slows the frantic racing I get in my head most days. I will be posting pictures of Kings Canyon and Sequoia on here plus just tidbits of information of what we are doing. I'm exploring the California coast and checking out some lighthouses too. Have a great summer folks. This is the first time I'm actually trying to escape summer for cooler sane temperatures.
I know you've been waiting for this. I'm off on another adventure though I must leave the "children", my two kitties with various sitters. I didn't think it would be fair to just have one person watch them for three weeks and Lisa is clear she isn't staying behind to cat sit. They are two kittens I rescued from the Nevada animal shelter. I don't know why they call these things animal shelters when they kill them. Such oxymoron's I find and see in life. Life insurance for the dead etc... I could go on for days. One of them is Mississippi. I know I'm suppose to be writing about our up coming travels but I must talk get this off my chest.
Mississippi. I remember learning to spell it with my sister. I had so much fun doing it. M i crooked letter, crooked letter and so on. It has always gotten bad press even from other southern state. I lived in Virginia in a small town on the border of North Carolina. Much of the south doesn't call Virginia southern. People from Carolina laugh when you say I'm from the south and mention Virginia in the same sentences. Part of the reason is slavery was brutal and Mississippi lead the charge in its brutality and ugliness of it all. Since slavery, Jim Crow laws and other amendments and things it hasn't changed much. Really. I drive through Mississippi a lot and until the stimulus money given to them from President Obama the roads were horrible. Their rest stops on major highways old decaying and neglected. With the stimulus money they built new ones. The irony is that they look like plantations. I would think they move away from that part of their horrible history and modernize. But noooooo.So lets give it back to France. When it comes to some things they are just broke. Humpty Dumpty couldn't be fixed either. It has been last in everything since air. As a child I remember the education reports, poverty reports, employment reports and Mississippi was dead last, broke and not a place ambitious people desired to live or raise a family. Let's be honest. How many young people are saying "I can't wait to get to Mississippi." None. Who says "when I grow up I'm going to Jackson, Mississippi or any old Miss school. Nobody but folks in Mississippi probably. It is a failed state. In education it has been last for four decades and counting. It hasn't attracted the workforce because its intelligent property is lacking as well as an infrastructure of good schools, resources besides lynching people of color or beating them up in parking lots as they leave work. All of this has happened in the new millennium not the sixties. Yes, I'm being fair. It just drags the country down. The entire state does and to be honest giving it back to France can save us. No one gets to leave that was born in the state of Mississippi. Those who weren't can cross the border over to Louisiana or Alabama but the rest of the lot can just stay in their new territory and get passports. That will be new for most of the people born in that state. Maybe France with its espresso and exotic sounding words can create a miracle. Seriously it is a failed state. When we see and hear what is happening in European Union and the possibility of Greece failing the same can be applied to states. Can we kick them out if they don't live up to standards of other states that are making progress in quality of life issues, growth, job employment and managing their resources productively. Can we? We would not miss it. France can have everything but the coastline. Of course Biloxi must stay part of the America.
Now on to what this blog is really about. I'm going park hopping and writing too. I redid my outline for "Madison" and it is work. I'm not putting pressure on myself inside my head. I must remember to incorporate meditation back into my life. It slows the frantic racing I get in my head most days. I will be posting pictures of Kings Canyon and Sequoia on here plus just tidbits of information of what we are doing. I'm exploring the California coast and checking out some lighthouses too. Have a great summer folks. This is the first time I'm actually trying to escape summer for cooler sane temperatures.
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