Vote No: The moment they learned that their hard work had been successful

Waiting for the results on the MN constitutional marriage amendment,  the campaign workers for Minnesota United for All Families listen to a pep talk and are told by campaign director Richard Carlbom that they should probably go home. But first, a list of their accomplishments in the campaign to get out the vote and talk to people about the issues.  Suddenly, a phone call and the announcement that the AP has called it: the No vote won. Jubilation!

Sounds like a good idea to me!

As I get closer to #52, I am looking at a card some dear friends gave me on my last birthday:

Life should NOT be
a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well-preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand,
wine in the other,
thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and loudly proclaiming...
"Woo Hoo! What a ride"

Mary Travers, my first love

Mary Travers' voice and spirit nourished me as a child. Oh, how I loved her then! Her voice singing "The Sparrow" enchanted me:


"The Rising of the Moon"

"The First Time" by Euan McColl

They sang with Martin Luther King, Jr, and against the Viet Nam War in 1971:

And they could be funny, too!