47: Week 15
May has landed, and with it, the garden is starting to truly bloom--the June/July garlic harvest that lasts us all year, the walls of water beginning to heat up so we can get tomatoes in the ground in the next 10 or so days before a vacation, and radishes picked fresh this evening for an indulgence with rich salted butter and a delicious baguette procured this morning at the season's first farmer's market. This makes me happy. Makes me smile. Makes me hold hope even when the week delivers horrors and absurdities that seem to outdo previous weeks. This was the week of outlandishness regarding the economy--the regime believing the way you reassure people about a tanking and bleak economic outlook is to tell us poverty is OK. During a cabinet meeting, he informed us that maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls . This was the week of outlandishness regarding the Constitution--when asked on "Meet the Press" whether a president must uphold the Constitutio...
