2004-07-04
MANIFESTOS || HOLIDAYS
click on the document for Brenda Young's diligent effort at retyping the Declaration of Independence into html
Fireworks thunder in the distance as I put this page together | At our house, we'd left the colored lights on the pineapple bush since last winter and turned them on tonight | One person honked in recognition, calling out "All Right!" while speeding past the stop sign at the corner of the street |
As to the occasion this year's observations are particularly sensitive | NO, I have not yet seen Michael Moore's Farenheight 9-11 | Frankly, I'm more likely to watch the Supremes than to go to a movie | It isn't about media distractions for me | It's about preserving the basic tenets then sought for redress and resolution | And as one might easily guess reading my other entries, I have concerns about that | So should you | So ought we all | It's an interesting year | Read the contents of the Declaration and ask in your heart how much of it is still relevant ...you might want to substitute George for King George, and the Crown for Corporate execs, but it seems fundamentally still the same battle | Only the fireworks of revolution may be more intellectual than those screaming and spurting across the river from the house |
Actually, my favorite fireworks, this time of year,
are those made by the seeming endless colony of fireflies in a copse of trees on the road behind our house | In that protected enclave, the fireflies move about seemingly at random, bringing burshs and flickers of light with as much predictability as the pyrotechnics display upriver from home | That display, all the more pronounced since I can literally stand amidst it without fear or injury or worry about how I'm going to get out of the parking lot after the show is over |They won't end for a number of weeks |When they do, then ~ as with the high tech ones going off tonight ~ I end up waiting again until next year for the grand display |
click on the document for Brenda Young's diligent effort at retyping the Declaration of Independence into html
Fireworks thunder in the distance as I put this page together | At our house, we'd left the colored lights on the pineapple bush since last winter and turned them on tonight | One person honked in recognition, calling out "All Right!" while speeding past the stop sign at the corner of the street |
As to the occasion this year's observations are particularly sensitive | NO, I have not yet seen Michael Moore's Farenheight 9-11 | Frankly, I'm more likely to watch the Supremes than to go to a movie | It isn't about media distractions for me | It's about preserving the basic tenets then sought for redress and resolution | And as one might easily guess reading my other entries, I have concerns about that | So should you | So ought we all | It's an interesting year | Read the contents of the Declaration and ask in your heart how much of it is still relevant ...you might want to substitute George for King George, and the Crown for Corporate execs, but it seems fundamentally still the same battle | Only the fireworks of revolution may be more intellectual than those screaming and spurting across the river from the house |
Actually, my favorite fireworks, this time of year,
are those made by the seeming endless colony of fireflies in a copse of trees on the road behind our house | In that protected enclave, the fireflies move about seemingly at random, bringing burshs and flickers of light with as much predictability as the pyrotechnics display upriver from home | That display, all the more pronounced since I can literally stand amidst it without fear or injury or worry about how I'm going to get out of the parking lot after the show is over |They won't end for a number of weeks |When they do, then ~ as with the high tech ones going off tonight ~ I end up waiting again until next year for the grand display |pix credit: © 2004 intransient.com --^
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