Thursday, October 8, 2020

Spike in the Hills

Marz messaged from her phone this photo of Spike in the hills by the goat farm. She is 8,000 feet high. (Elevation here is 800 feet.)


Spike loves it there--her hair matches the plant life.
Marz is doing okay. She had a bit of a rough entry as her first day included the castration of a baby pig... 

She says she's liking the sheep better than the goats. It just so happens that a drop spindle was donated to the store yesterday. I'd stashed it at my desk, thinking it was cool ancient technology.
Does Marz want it? I asked. Or can she send me wool to try to spin?
(I know raw wool is a dirty mess, but it'd be fun to try.)


Meanwhile, the cop who killed George Floyd was released yesterday. I biked home from work to the sound of helicopters overhead. It came to me:

We are living through events that will become answers to US History quizzes of the future.

Like how Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Attack on Charles Sumner on the Senate floor are possible answers to "Name three events leading up to the US Civil War".

But what question will "The police murder of George Floyd in 2020" answer?

"Name an event that helped precipitate the end of systemic oppression in the United States?"

Or, "What events led to the wretchedness we live in now?"