And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Been on jury duty. Just got kicked off this morning on a preemptory challenge
That's where they don't have to state a reason. Mrs CW's supervisor from her job was in the pool, and I got to do that walk of shame/freedom right in front of her. Now I'm free as a bird... until tomorrow, when it's back to work, but they say this is a long weekend.
Plus, chance of rain tonight and for sure tomorrow, which means more snow on Shasta, to follow the cap the lonely mountain got on August 20th.
I sense the return of the ice age. Hopefully, that includes the return of the megafauna!
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
But time does not listen to thy honeyed words. It rolls on unconcerned.
I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the mirror and say, “I am getting old,” but Shakespeare looks in the mirror and says, “Devouring Time, blunt thou thy lion’s paws.”
—Jim Harrison