Category: taking a knee

The Holidays in October and Angry Stalker Dude

Posted in Atticus Finch, car pool, chorus, Christmas, Costco, dogs, empathy, Facebook, Jesus, live music, memoir, police officer, politics, Santana, taking a knee, Thanksgiving, white privilegeLeave a comment

(re-run) I heard Christmas music today at Costco while I watched people putting pumpkins into their shopping carts.  Ah, it must be fall. In California, the leaves don’t change into beautiful reds and oranges until November. It doesn’t get cold enough until then. We have Halloween first, then fall color, sometimes coinciding with Thanksgiving, but… Continue reading The Holidays in October and Angry Stalker Dude

The Country on Fire

Posted in American flag, Baby Boomer, BART, Colin Kaepernick, George Floyd, looters, MLK, murder, National Anthem, NFL, police officer, protestors, racism, racist, staus quo, taking a knee, The Hate You Give, the talk, veterans, violenceLeave a comment

(re-run from the summer of 2020) The country is on fire. Protestors have been gathering for three days now, just one week after George Floyd died while a police officer kept his knee on his neck until he was asphyxiated. George had used a counterfeit twenty dollar bill at a store. A 17-year-old girl filmed… Continue reading The Country on Fire