Worth the Wait

Today I met a beautiful woman. She was being pushed in her wheelchair by her son. He patiently helped her into the back seat of his car. Following close behind was her husband, who was walking slowly with the use of a cane. I asked him, "Is that your little boy"? (The "little boy" was a man in his late sixties). The man said, "Yes, that's my little boy". He thanked me for something, and I replied, "That's the guy you need to thank. He's returning all the kindness you showed to him when he was a little boy." The man said, "Oh, we do, we thank him every day."

Then I commented on how beautiful his wife is. He agreed, and said she has always been beautiful, and that next year they would be celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary. I said, "My goodness, you must have gotten married when you were five years old"! He said, "No, I was eighteen and she was sixteen, but I had to wait a while until she turned sixteen, before I could marry her." The man is 92. His beautiful bride is 90. He is certain that the wait was worth it.

Jon's Boat

Out and About

Sara With Labradoodle Pups (more to come)

Is It Too Late?

News about ACORN and voter registration fraud is finally being reported. Is it too late? If so, then I feel guilty, because I saw ACORN hounding minorities all summer in Denver. I should have been writing about it, or calling in to talk radio. Rush, Laura, and Sean have only recently been talking about it. John McCain and all of the other Republican candidates have never even mentioned it, and they should have been aware of what has been going on.

Only Sean Hannity has been talking for months about the alliances Obama has had with Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright. Others are finally picking up the issue. The best writer on the subject has been Stanley Kurtz at National Review. Here is an archive of Kurtz's writing so far in 2008.

When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall

This Morning's Sunrise

Sunrise This Morning

Face-to-Face Communication

The neighbor's horse loves to stick her neck over our fence, so she can communicate face-to-face with our animals.

Bringing in the Sheaves

We know there is One Cosmos, but there are thousands of cosmos flowers. We had a light freeze last night, so I cut some cosmos for the breakfast table this morning.

"Don't Mistake Paradise for that Home Across the Road."

QP's Quiptorium links us to a vitally important piece by Thomas Sewell on the difference between associations and alliances. Obama's connections to Wright, Phleger, Ayres, Dohrn, Rezko, and ACORN were alliances, not mere associations. Sewell explains why that is an important distinction.

QP also links to the Bob Dylan tune that is the title of this post.

By the way, Clarence Thomas, in his book, "My Grandfather's Son," tells us that Thomas Sewell was a significant inspiration to Clarence Thomas when he read "Race and Economics" as a young lawyer in Missouri. He was so very relieved to find another black man who had arrived at many of the same conclusions that he, Thomas, had reached.

Can you guess where I go on my breaks?

Coming to an End

Today is cold and rainy, maybe even snow? I fear we will be going into winter soon. This may be one of the last garden photos, if we get a freeze tonight.

Autumn Warmth

"Cannibalizing Values"

I am reading Clarence Thomas's "My Grandfather's Son". I am finding it to be a very moving story of the life of a brilliant man, who saw clearly and felt deeply the sting of segregation. Nevertheless, he also resisted "a new kind of enslavement," dependency on government. He realized that those who fostered dependency on government condemned poor people "to the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, by cannibalizing the values without which they had no long term hope of improving their lot."

Enjoy!

Cool? I Don't Think So.

Charles Krauthammer has once again written a very provocative and thoughtful column here. He thinks Obama is likely to win the election, despite his lack of executive experience, and despite his history of having close, personal associations with nefarious individuals like Jeremiah Wright, William Ayres, Bernadette Dorne, and Tony Rezko.

There was another presidential candidate in 1980, from the opposite side of the political spectrum, who, like Obama, scared a large number of potential voters, who thought he might be too radical. That man conducted himself in 1980 in a "cool, reassuring manner," writes Krauthammer. President Ronald Reagan was elected by a large minority over the failed incumbent, Jimmy Carter.

Obama is following the Reagan model, according to Krauthammer, showing that he has a "first-class intellect and a "first class temperament". What Krauthammer does not mention is that Obama, unlike Ronald Reagan, has the support of the unending drumbeat of the mainstream media.

Nevertheless, I believe Obama actually has a very thin skin, conditioned as it is by spending so many years stirring up the "poor me: I am a victim" movement in Chicago. Unfortunately, we don't get the chance to debate him, so we'll have to rely on the Maverick and the woman who is "takin' off the gloves and puttin' on the heels".

Update:I watched the debate tonight, and Krauthammer is right. Obama did a good job of keeping his cool.

I like the regal way Queen Merry sits.

Free at last!

The hens are happy this morning. We removed Mr. Rooster from their play area, after we discovered he likes to eat raw eggs.