Juneteenth

Juneteenth - - comes round every year as a beginning of summer, a day or two off from the summer equinox, and nearly three weeks later than 1 June, which opens Hurricane Season for us Native Floridians, and also is when school lets out for summer vacation and summer really begins for us.

It's a crazy life, the seasonal memories that surface, and no point in rifling through them here again this morning.

One egg omelet with cheddar cheese melted inside it before folding it up, then chili sauce poured atop, the full length of it. No carbs to speak of, so maybe it won't zonk me out, which is important, because we are on a kitchen updating project and the next step is this morning at ten o'clock.

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Again, life is crazy. Something unbalanced about the United States contemplating another new war after Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, another dive into vain national insanity. And, "We control the skies over Iran?" 

WE?

Where have all the flowers gone, when will we ever learn?

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Raining this morning for our coffee, but clear and bright now. From 7H porch I can see beyond Shell "Island" into the Gulf. The Bay is calm, flat but with gentle ripples, not mirror flat as we see now and then. 

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Giving up my car tomorrow as a gift for Charlotte to drive as her college car, and as I ease toward my 90th birthday trying to accept that life changes me, even me. How? What? less driving for me, no driving alone, because at a stop sign we need two half-wits with four eyes to make a crash-free right turn into traffic. And our long distance travel anymore is to the Commissary and BX at Tyndall AFB headed east, and maybe west as far as The Carousel at PCB on rare occasion. My car was being driven two hundred to five hundred miles a year, Linda's car about five thousand miles a year. So, I reckon it's Time, eh?

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Anyway, Juneteenth. Union troops arriving in Texas announce that the Civil War is ended, and that, with the Emancipation Proclamation that President Lincoln signed 1 January 1863, slavery is abolished. It's surprising that the Juneteenth Holiday has so far survived January 20, 2025.

Go in peace ...

RSF&PTL

T89&c

art pinched online: Renee Allen's Juneteenth art quilt hanging in the Bullock Museum, Austin, Texas