November 11, 2020!
Today is Veterans Day. Thank you all!
Scanning headlines this morning, it is clear that the Republican establishment is “. . . still clueless about why they lost” and Democrat establishment is clueless about why they won.
This morning Sister Susannah reminded me that yesterday was Edmund Fitzgerald day. The bell, on the big lake the Chippewa call Gichigami, at Traverse City was wrung 29 times for the lives of the crew lost 51 years ago, one time for Gordon Lightfoot who wrote the song, and one time for all other souls lost at sea.
My substack page view numbers have increased some but not appreciably.
The most viewed pages for the year are pretty much the usual suspects:
The Near Extinction Of The American Bison: Do The Math (Rev. 11/9/2015)
And,
The Best I Ever Had: BBQ
·The following piece, updated here, was published at “Old Ones Dream” April 18, 2013, and as a piece of “Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork” April 14, 2022.


