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This business couldn't miss! Do it.

Today (well actually 2 days ago) I learned that I'm going to be a grandmother in November. I never have been before so I hope I don't blow it. Brennan and Mariela are giddy with excitement...so cute to watch.

Well yay!

These all sound fabulous.

How like Wilco to do that! And how thoughtful of your former student. Happy 50th! A well-done surprise party can be such a joy...it sounds as if you were thoroughly celebrated!

...hang on to your hats and small pets! This "storm cyclone" sounds like climate-change-terrorism. Scary levels of intensity! Please take careful care of yourselves and don't do anything reckless! Stay safe at home if that's an option. Check in if you can and let us know how you're doing! Love from southern California where, if it's any comfort, it also looks like it might rain. Probably not like the northeast though.

Saw Basia Bulat tonight. I never tire of her and her gorgeous, powerful voice. She was wonderful.

I don't know if you've seen this graduation speech he wrote awhile back....I always thought it was one of the best graduation speeches I've ever heard. https://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/george-saunderss-advice-to-graduates/

I'll bet he was interesting! How nice that you were able to get an autographed copy.

The shooter also asked the son what classroom he was in at the end of the school day. Now that may mean he intended to stay away from where the son was, and spare his life....but it could as easily mean Cruz intended to seek him out as a special target. The son reportedly connected the dots when the shooting began, and got far away from the classroom he had told Cruz he'd be in. He survived. (No thanks to his parents)

But you know what, I don't think we are. I think the majority of Americans are pretty good, decent people. The problem is the amount of money and influence of the NRA. WE can't give up. Many big fights were only won in gradual increments, until finally the tide was turned. Then, looking back, we see that it was always inevitable. But it is very hard to stay committed until the tide turns. Stay outraged. Resist and fight the NRA and its power over our government.

Yeah, this action terrifies me. If this is how trump defines winning, he's right...I'm sick of it.

That was one helluva launch, and the thought of that red Tesla floating through space is Repo-Man-level cool. Well crap. More and more this native Californian realizes why Mom and Dad left Wisconsin and Minnesota for warmer climes. Sorry about your mailbox.

This is so well put. Especially that last line. This time feels slightly surreal!

This looks terrific!

Everything going on right now is disturbing as hell.

Wish I'd been there!

Thanks for your commitment to this, Jon. Somewhere Roosevelt and his wife are smiling. You're done a great job telling his story, and I love all the synchronicity of your coming to volunteer in this cause! It really does seem like you were meant to play this role. All those connections! Also, was the trip to the Grammy Museum in Cleveland, MS when you met Mavis Staples? Yet another serendipitous connection.

That book is a ton of fun. I want to read this. Eric Garner's story is such a tragic one.

The anniversary of us coming under trump's tiny thumb is nothing to celebrate, but the coming together of so many in resistance is! So I'll be out there tomorrow, marching in L.A. Voting with my face! Hello, count me please, I'm here. I support a much saner government as soon as possible because I'm tired of all this "winning"! How about the rest of you? Are you marching somewhere?

This is brilliant!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'll bet his mafia friends could handle that job, or the Russians. He's absolutely off the rails! Train wreck is right.

Are you guys reading the Feinstein-released Simpson testimony? I'm only about halfway through (It's over 300 pages) but wow, fascinating! In less important news, I may have finally figured out how to pronounce that Russian lawyer's name. I think of it as vessel-knit-sky-a. Picture a vessel filled with a knit sky. That Solid Sound art is influencing my thoughts. I hope I'm not pronouncing it wrong but I probably am.