”The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree.”
The morning is beautiful with a deep blue sky and a bright sun, but it is a bit cool. I had to shut the window behind me. Tonight will get down to the high 50’s. The weather for the weekend will have warm, even hot, days and cool nights, perfect for sleeping. Summer still holds sway.
The last scheduled event on my dance card is today. I have my third uke concert of the week. Earlier in the week, I had my usual practice and my lesson. The music for this week’s concerts is from a book of favorites. A couple are Creedence and another few are the Eagles. I’m enjoying this book.
I need to wear mittens when I walk round the house. Spiders’ webs are everywhere. I can see them highlighted by the sun on plants and in crevices and corners. I like spiders, not their webs.
My memories of Ghana are still vibrant, even the ones from when I first arrived there so many years ago. I remember the palm trees by the airport. Palm trees had always seemed exotic to me, and I had only seen them in pictures. I grew up with oaks and maples and pine trees. Kiosks lined the roads. Women wore dresses made from bright, beautiful cloth. They carried bundles and baskets on their heads. Babies were wrapped in cloth and carried on their mothers’ backs. My head swiveled from side to side on the bus ride to our first training site but then I fell asleep having not slept at all on the plane ride from Philadelphia to Accra.
I’m watching another YouTube African Walk video. They are mostly walks around Accra. I seldom recognize any place, but the Ghanaians are familiar. Along the sides of the roads are kiosks where women sell oranges or tomatoes or yams and so much more. In one part of the market are piles of clothes, all waiting to be sold. The clothes are called obroni wawu, dead white man’s clothes. Most originated as donations which were then shipped to Africa. Every week millions of pounds of those donated clothes arrive in Accra. In Accra’s markets, you can buy just about anything.
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August 29, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Hi Kat,
The sky is partly cloudy and the predicted high is down to a chilly 94°. All week the weather prognosticators have been increasing the coverage of precipitation over the holiday weekend.
Although, summer here will last through September with warm temperatures, I hate Labor Day weekend because it’s the traditional end of summer. Already, my daughter is planning her costume for Halloween. 🙂 She and time perception don’t always mix.
Our Republican friends here in Texas have already purged the voting rolls of one million people under the guise of preventing voter fraud. If you are a poor black or Hispanic person and you receive a notice in the mail that your right to vote has been revoked, can you afford an attorney to fight the state. Republicans, if they can’t win on policy, they cheat, and if that doesn’t work, they just steal the election. Georgia, a battleground state, Republicans have already given election judges extraordinary power to cheat.
Hopefully, Trump won’t win, but I fear what will happen afterwards will make January 6th 2021 look like kids play. Most of the MAGA nut jobs are armed to the teeth and Trump is already laying the groundwork that he really won, but the Presidency was stolen again. I think that a bloodbath is coming. Kamala needs to stop laughing and start appealing to middle America if she wants to win. The rest of this country is not like campaigning in California. She needs to appeal to out of work, young, white males. This race is essentially tied and we can’t afford to put Trump back in the White House. Should he win, he has already told Christian Nationalists that this is the last time they will have to vote. Democracy itself is on the ballot.
August 29, 2024 at 3:45 pm
Just a quick read from NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5091032/false-narrative-republicans-claim-noncitizens-are-poised-to-steal-upcoming-election
August 29, 2024 at 5:57 pm
We all need to stay vigilant. They will do everything they can to overrun this election
August 29, 2024 at 5:53 pm
Hi Bob,
Saturday and Sunday will be hot, Cape Cod hot, at 77°. The nights will be either in the mid to low 60’s or the high 50’s. I think those are perfect weather days.
This weekend is the meteorological end of summer. It comes every year on September 1st.
When I was young, on the day after Labor Day, all the seasonal restaurants and motels were closed. Now, fall is tourist bus season and so many paces are still open. Columbus Day is the next closing day. Several restaurants now never close.
Trump is going to do anything he can to beat the system and to win fraudulently. He is already saying the polls are all fixed and are downright lies. He is winning in every state. Just ask him!
I don’t see her ever appealing to out of work young white males. They are prime Trumpers and will always be Trumpers. They are the base of his cult. We all know when he loses he will not accept his loss. He never accepted the 2020 loss. The difference will be he hasn’t the power of the presidency as he did on J6. If you’ve watched any of Kamala’s recent speeches, she doesn’t laugh. She concentrates on issues as does Tim. He hasn’t hidden the 2025 agenda or his QAnon affiliation. We all know democracy will survive another Trump presidency.