Yesterday (Thursday) was truly like summer. It was a pleasure once again to visit East Side Park in the early evening for the (limited) UMM choir rehearsal. We get to appreciate their warm-ups. I say "we" but I was the only person there to observe until toward the end, when Simon Tillier pulled in on his trusty bicycle with the thin tires.
These
practices are the closest we can come to music "concerts" right now.
Could the restrictions ease up? It might not be wise but look at what is
happening with sports. Word is, football and volleyball are being
jump-started. It's hard for me to get all the info. I have not seen the
Morris paper since late March. Normally I see it at the library, the
senior center or at church. Those options have been no-go.
A
friend might chide me: "Buy it." I attempted to purchase a subscription
at the time I left the newspaper staff, really truly, but was told I'd
receive issues complimentary. Based on my years of service of course. So
this was set up for a couple years and then I was unceremoniously cut
off. At the same time as Ed Morrison, I was told by his son Jim, and you
can't be in better company than that.
Ed
has left us. Helen Jane is in advanced years and reportedly doing fine -
a real blessing - and her biggest issue might be eyesight. Well, I told
the clan that's small potatoes. My own eyesight has become challenged,
and I actually think I got a little coaching to get through my eye test
at the DMV. You know, I think the DMV standard might be too demanding -
due to pressure from the state's optometry industry? Heh heh.
I
swear my eyesight is perfect for driving - it would certainly be
better, by a country mile, over the South Dakota attorney general. And,
why is he allowed to continue working? You no doubt have heard what
happened. "We don't know all the facts?" Well to be sure, the facts that
we do already know make the fellow look just awful. He is the only
witness, as the victim is dead. Considering how the passenger side of the
windshield got smashed in - we can view the photo - I almost have to
wonder if poor Mr. Boever actually ended up in the car partway.
What
kind of dastardly thing might a person do, to try to escape
culpability? Had the body been immediately discovered by law
enforcement, there probably would have been several emergency or law
enforcement vehicles converging on the site with lights flashing all
over the place, with Attorney General Ravnsborg still there, and the
mere visual of this might have done him in. A person with his mind would
know this.
Dastardly
things? Isn't it terrible to even think of this? Well, I think legal
and law enforcement professionals would readily acknowledge that any
human being has the capacity for doing something dastardly. We all know
that a Republican "machine" has pretty tight control of South Dakota
politics.
A
friend of mine refers to the South Dakota governor as "good-looking."
I'll quote him but certainly I would make no such assertion. In addition
to embracing gay rights - a blessing - our society has gone through a
rapid change in turning thumbs-down on objectification of women. I guess
that's a blessing too. Men my age must be cut some slack for adjusting,
please.
The
South Dakota governor is Kristi Noem. She made a statement yesterday
about why Ravnsborg is allowed to continue working as AG. I wanted to
read the Argus Leader article about this but there's one of those
paywalls. Why would I want to pay for online access to the Argus Leader
from way out in South Dakota when I'm only interested in one subject?
What else could any of us be interested in from that windswept, boring
state? We had a governor in Minnesota, Rudy Perpich, who gained
attention for saying South Dakota was "50th in everything," remember?
The guy fighting back on that was Bill Janklow, South Dakota governor.
Well, Janklow gained infamy for an incident exactly like what Ravnsborg
is in the midst of.
Mr.
Ravnsborg, come forward and say you did something terrible and appeal
for understanding and forgiveness. It is the only way your conscience
can be cleansed. You may have to pay a price but after that, you can
move on, really.
A little normality
So
we are readying for resumption of fairly normal fall football and
volleyball, right? That's the word out there. Tiger football on Monday? That's the day announced in a Minnpost article. In
front of fans? A limited number of fans? So some people might be turned
away? Masks for all (except players on the field)? Not sure of all the
details but I'm perplexed by one thing: the facts about the virus are
not different from before, perhaps even worse, and yet there's a
reversal on high school fall sports?
And
I suppose this paves the way for full winter basketball etc. in front
of gym-fulls of people who would have a hard time surviving the winter
if they did not have this opiate. But if the virus starts going on a
rampage? As well might be the case? Well, perhaps society has slowly
slid into a resigned sort of conclusion that it's mostly old people
dying from the virus, and since these people have pretty much
experienced the most of what life has to offer (?), they are
expendable?
And
so, we must allow all the cute and vibrant young families to have their
usual fun with stuff like high school sports, because absolutely
nothing should stand in the way of high school sports? Well, what about
music?
Addendum: Did
you know some states have dropped the parallel parking part of the
driver's license tests? That's because so many people were failing it
and having to come back for a re-take. They found the right solution.
My podcast for a nice Friday
I continue with thoughts on the new city water, not a happy story, for my September 25 entry on "Morris Mojo." You may click on permalink:
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