One of the fun aspects of wandering over the land where PawPaw and I are going to build our home is seeing all the different wildflowers. We bought a Tennessee Wildflower identification book — which PawPaw has. I took some pictures - not the greatest in the world, but okay for identifying the flowers. The “Sweet Betsy” is the most unusual — three spotted leaves (are they called “varigated”?) with a dark red flower spiking up in the middle. The whitish flowers are “something-or-other Toothworth”. I remember the toothwort part, but not the rest. They’re pretty, aren’t they?
I heard on the news that Jane Fonda was asked in an interview why she wasn’t touring the United States speaking out against the war. She said (and I’m paraphrasing here from what I remember from the news report) that she decided not to do that because she has too much baggage as a result of her protests during the Viet Nam war. Also, she said, Cindy Sheehan is doing a much better job than she could. Does anyone take Jane Fonda or Cindy Sheehan seriously anymore? At least we can thank God for Jane’s baggage. Without it, we’d be subjected to even more of her self-serving political idiocy. Some people don’t learn from their past.
Enough of Jane.
I read a great post by David at Third World County.
Make yourself watch an evening of MTV analytically. Or do the same with any network or cable TV channel. Heck, watch The History Channel analytically. In any and all of those examples, among the many, many media outlets I could cite from Hollyweird to Nashville and on, what we generally view as harmless entertainment is framing our references.
David is so right. I challenge you to give it a shot. Listen and watch with a critical eye.
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