Wish I could find a picture of the first bird feeder Deb put up about 3 months ago. No birds!
I kept saying they'd come. Well, they never came! Deb finally convinced me to try a "bird friendly" feeder. These pictures were taken yesterday after the new feeder was up about
a week. Obviously she was right!
If I get any unusual birds like the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, I'll post them.
RHD
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
I am finding it hard to illustrate how pervasive rce prejudice was when I was a
young man,nd we didn't even know it!
My mother was head of the volunteer blood bank in Detroit before and during the war.
It was a big job and she had a big staff that worked well. One day she and her crew
were setting up a bank in an automobile factory. She was almost ready, and she needed
something moved. She looked at the waiting employees, and said " boy, will you give me a hand" There was a great commotion, and most started to leave. The point is,
she didn't even realize she had used a racial putdown. This was the way about 90% of the country felt! When I got older, and understood the horrers of the holocaust, I began to recognize and hate racial intolerance. It's still here of course, but far less than 70 years ago, which is a heartbeat to me.
I am a lifelong Republican, and will vote for McCain. However I believe if O'bama is elected we'll have a fine, intelligent president, but one lacking experience if only because of is age.
I hope I'm getting thru to illuustrating the profound change in one lifetime, that has covered about 3 1/2 generations.
This long dissertation should have preceeded the one below
RHD
young man,nd we didn't even know it!
My mother was head of the volunteer blood bank in Detroit before and during the war.
It was a big job and she had a big staff that worked well. One day she and her crew
were setting up a bank in an automobile factory. She was almost ready, and she needed
something moved. She looked at the waiting employees, and said " boy, will you give me a hand" There was a great commotion, and most started to leave. The point is,
she didn't even realize she had used a racial putdown. This was the way about 90% of the country felt! When I got older, and understood the horrers of the holocaust, I began to recognize and hate racial intolerance. It's still here of course, but far less than 70 years ago, which is a heartbeat to me.
I am a lifelong Republican, and will vote for McCain. However I believe if O'bama is elected we'll have a fine, intelligent president, but one lacking experience if only because of is age.
I hope I'm getting thru to illuustrating the profound change in one lifetime, that has covered about 3 1/2 generations.
This long dissertation should have preceeded the one below
RHD
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Race reflections
All the publicity about race because of O'Bama makes me realize how old I am. A whole
genaration that I was raised in has virtually disappeared. I became an adult when Pearl Harbor happened and I was a freshman at the University of Michigan. In this era, we had Father Coughlin for instance.Look him up on Google. He was finally stopped from his weekly broadcast by Pope Pius. His talks consisted of constant abuse
of Jews, and to a lesser extent, Blacks. He was listened to by a vast audience of adults, like my parents, on the radio. Several points need to be made. He was not vilified. His medium was radio.Think about that. There was almost no other medium for entertainment or information. Cell phones had not even been imagined except possibly beca;use of Dick Tracy's wrist radio! No television,The movies showed newsreels, and you read the newapaper, either the aft. edition or the morning editon.
I'm a slow typist, I'll add to this in a few days.
RHD
genaration that I was raised in has virtually disappeared. I became an adult when Pearl Harbor happened and I was a freshman at the University of Michigan. In this era, we had Father Coughlin for instance.Look him up on Google. He was finally stopped from his weekly broadcast by Pope Pius. His talks consisted of constant abuse
of Jews, and to a lesser extent, Blacks. He was listened to by a vast audience of adults, like my parents, on the radio. Several points need to be made. He was not vilified. His medium was radio.Think about that. There was almost no other medium for entertainment or information. Cell phones had not even been imagined except possibly beca;use of Dick Tracy's wrist radio! No television,The movies showed newsreels, and you read the newapaper, either the aft. edition or the morning editon.
I'm a slow typist, I'll add to this in a few days.
RHD
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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