fire

As some of you know, several weeks back our apartment burned, along with 11 others. We lost a great deal (but not our cat).  The fire fighters did a great job. The Red Cross stepped in to help in big ways. Kith and kin from all over the continent helped us. Cousin Dan put us up for three weeks. Healdsburg, led by Chris Love, came to the rescue. Sarah, our older daughter, went on Gofundme and raised a large sum of crowd-funding cash. Our insurance (Farmer's) came through. We settled in yesterday in a new apartment near Montgomery and Summerfield. Today I plan to buy inexpensive chairs to sit in.

On another topic, the paper today ran an article on the death rate among America's poor white people. Their death rate has been rising annually. That makes sense. Our nation has provided them with inadequate educations, particularly in sound ways to reason and in sound health practices. That's a political issue. Instead of an education, they got bullshit from political leaders (soulless corporate hacks).  The price if you are a poor white fellow?  You lose about five years of your life for going around saying, "We want our country back."