YES! Everything about this story is wild and I think we should talk about it more. I love doing the big Scooby Doo reveal that the president on track to do this was Nixon. Thanks to @bunkum.us for telling me about the unfortunately named FAP
The quote is about the 1890s(ish) from "Taxation and Democracy," which was written by Sidney Ratner in 1967.
Apparently 15 is the crystal anniversary but if you're not into crystal Rep Chi in Jefferson Park sells these sweet wine glasses. We got married on a Saturday and rolled into Chicago within the week. This city made and remade our family so it seemed like a fitting way to celebrate.
In case you are wondering, I am still on my bullshit even when I'm on vacation. Here's an article about what the cost of policing looks like out west. Yellowstone County is cutting budgets for every single department to "shift revenue to public safety budgets."
An entire section of maps and Atlases with huge maps in these drawers and Atlases and all kinds of amazing reference materials
Whenever I go somewhere new I really enjoy checking out the local public library. The Park County library in Cody is great.
I'm on the bus to the rodeo and it's amazing because everyone is talking about how it is in fact their first rodeo.
People in the camps made so many of the things that they used but they also made art while they were there and the way the mountain appears again and again helps a contemporary visitor connect to other people and times and things that happen in this place.
The mountain stands over the site in a way that somehow brings the human scale of suffering and survival into focus. I keep thinking that whenever we get through whatever this is we need to emphasize public history and creating places for people to feel and experience all that came before.
Although it was a place of illegal incarceration people lived here and survived and had children and farmed and cooked and went to school and played basketball and had scout troops and holidays.
Very few of the original buildings remain but there are a few that you can look around. This is a picture of the root celer that was built the first year to hold the vegetables grown by the incarcerees. Is the food stored here fed the camp and eventually other camps.
Tried to put this up a few times but haven't really been able to find the words yet and I guess that's why I took pictures. Today I was at Heart Mountain where the US government incarcerated over 14,000 Japanese Americans from 1942-1945.
I don't use LinkedIn much but this morning I thought it would be hilarious to change my headline to CDB! DBS No Z Bc it really captures my general approach to research (For clarity I didn't do it but I keep giggling about it)
I did it! It was awesome to get up and perform our final pieces. I wrote my kids into my piece. My daughter played herself, herself as a baby, me as a child and a lady I met in a gym sauna. My son played MacGyver and MacGyver as my doctor. I got to be a performer and an artist for a day 💕