Sunday March 15
Dear Family,
We are starting a blog for sharing photos, videos, music, stories, poems and other bits of writing with all of you! We'd love for you to share things too! I can add you all as contributors. This blog is only for family things - no scary news or articles about the virus. We just want this as a way to stay connected as we go through this.
Here's some stuff that happened yesterday: Tim and I got out our bikes and dusted them off, walked them to the bike shop and got the wheels pumped up, then we rode home through the park. It was sunny but crisp out. Being on a bike felt great! The park was busy with people sitting in the sun, playing frisbee, walking their dogs.
I started a loaf of bread - the kind you make in a cast iron pot. It takes about 24 hours to make, so I'll post a photo of it tonight!
Alice and Lucy learned a new dance. My favorite new dance in a while. I'll video them later and post that too.
Benjamin started composing something new. He's ordering a keyboard that he can connect to his computer for composing and is excited about that.
Alice made some tie-died T-shirts with her friend and Lucy and a friend played lacrosse together in the park.
I read a long speech by Omer from the summer of 1894 - one I hadn't known about before. He's talking to the Congress about the need for a national irrigation program (this is six years before one finally passed - The Reclamation Act of 1902). In this speech he sounds exactly like Warren or Bernie, calling for “the principle of Governmental control.” He wanted to see the “railways, telegraph and telephone lines, finance and irrigation” all nationalized. “We should abolish the present system by which private corporations control these great public necessities and build up colossal wealth for a few while robbing the many.” In the 1860s, the US Government handed out massive grants to the Railroads companies (to the tune of $447,000,000), in what we now call “socialism for the rich” and what Omer called “the paternalism I detest…the kind Populists are organized to exterminate.” Sometimes I'm very proud of Omer. Maybe the things we wanted will one day come true.
I wrote a poem. Maybe I'll share that tomorrow.
Tim went back to reading Marx. He's reading The Grundrisse. I don't even know what that is. Maybe I'll ask him to post later so he can tell us things about it.
Oh, and Lucy and I made a homeschool schedule. Photo below!
This is a picture of me and my roommate Mike Zryd from around 1992. He sent it to me yesterday. We were supposed to see each other in Toronto this coming week. In this photos we are at a big pro-choice march that happened in DU that year. I like my backpack and wish I still had it.
We love you all! I'll get better at posting things as I go!
And I'm going to ask Alice, Ben, Lucy, and Tim to write and post things too.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE, Julie
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