It's Sunday Morning

Rolling out of bed late on a Sunday morning always seems a bit decadent. I tend to get up and catch "Sunday Morning" on the TV. Then roll through a couple of the Sunday liars clubs before moving on to something useful for the rest of the day. Sometime today the grass needs mowing before it outstrips the mower.

When I stumbled into the kitchen this morning to start the coffee maker the temperature was at 73 and the humidity was at 98%...Now the television is flashing a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the counties to the NE of here...Texas weather, wait around 15 minutes, they say, and it'll change.

I am supposed to be heading out for this years Boyd~Cox reunion. With my voice acting up right now, I don't want to add any additional strain to it, so I'll be missing the family get together. We are down to two of the original family group left. My dad's twin sister, Helen, who lives out of state and only makes it once a decade or so is 85. My Aunt Gertrude, who married into the family in 1929, is 97. Aunt Gertrude hasn't missed a reunion in decades, that I know of. My dad was the youngest of 12, even Aunt Helen beat him into the world. He didn't miss many of the family get togethers over the years, they were one of the highlights of the year for him. I'm sorry to miss the fun this year.

It's not often that the Washington Post publishes a life celebration that grabs my interest in the morning and pulls me in to read the whole story...The following paragraph in the morning email did.

A couple of decades ago, a man driving from South Carolina to Pennsylvania broke down on the Beltway and managed to nurse his car to the Westbard Citgo service station in Bethesda. Carlos Bonds, the station owner, looked under the hood, then tossed the man a set of keys.

"Here's my wife's car," he said. "Just bring it back in a week."

Take a moment today and go celebrate a life well lived...

Source: He Repaired Cars and Restored Trust - washingtonpost.com

In twelve paragraphs of column Robert Kagen makes one statement that I can actually agree with. Sadly, he didn't mean it the way I take it...

When people want to justify the unjustifiable and accept the unacceptable, they try all kinds of ways to make themselves feel better about their decision.

Most of what follows seems to me to be another neocon version of reality, and a realists version of Bush inspired acid dream. Highly appropriate I suppose for the 40th anniversary for the "Summer of Love"...The blurb at the end says Kagen is an adviser to the McCain Campaign. Could this explain part of the failure of the McCain run for the Presidency to actually take off this time around?

Source: Robert Kagan - The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit - washingtonpost.com

Y'all have a great Sunday...Catch you tomorrow...