At the risk of inserting some levity, I am happy to report that I recently made my first Vermont Country Store purchase, a sheet set. Today I made my second, a jacket. And I still want more, especially some of that Vermont maple syrup. The girl's gotta have it. -- nordy
How perfect! Their catalogue was waiting for me in our mailbox when we got home a few minutes ago! We traveled to the NH border today to meet up with a friend we hadn't seen in about 47 years...! Diana and I first encountered one another when we shared the labor room for our first babies...who were born the same day. Then we had our second babies just two months apart. In between we happened to join the same women's group and met in person for the first time (no curtain between us). Our children played together for a year or two, then we moved away and lost touch (no social media or cell phones then). We met up again when the husband of a friend of mine had a brain tumor, and Diana was their Hospice person. We've been in touch again for over a decade, and FINALLY got together in person! Such a good day.
I have been to the Vermont Country Store in Weston a half dozen times over the years. Often it's in conjunction with attending a Weston theatre production. The shop is huge and convoluted and fun to wander around in...despite it being so old the floors are warped and wonky! Ha! They have just about everything you could think of. The original general store meets department store!
A couple observations: The folks who accept the Great Replacement Theory and so think immigrants should be removed are not Native Americans. They are all, to a man, descendants of immigrants. So, like, what the hell do they use for brains? None of them would be here if not for Great Grandad who came over from Germany or Great Great Grandma who came over from Italy. We are, to coin a phrase, a nation of immigrants. Hell, the Native Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia umpteen thousand years ago. Where do these idiots think we all came from?
More broadly, I think the pickle we're currently in is traceable to a number of causes, among them the declines in civility and courtesy, education, unions, and organized religion during my lifetime if not longer. (I do not consider televangelists and megachurches part of organized religion. Rather than Christianity, they spread and normalize heresy and blasphemy, while encouraging the cult of personality around each individual leader, further sewing disunity and so to speak clique-ism.) We're no longer e pluribus unum, we're just plures. In that state of things the loudest and strongest and cruelest take power. So, here we are.
Actual organised religion has had its issues (power struggles, political purposes, cruel crusades), but at least along the way it attempted to value morality, and kept an historical account.
Still, I prefer the work and writings of the mystics over the leaders of the church, generally speaking.
Sen. Kelly is suing Hegseth, Minnesota is suing DHS and ICE and, according to Glenn Kirschner, Illinois is suing DHS and ICE too. So, that brings the count of civil suits against von Schitzenpantz and his regime up to, let's see, about a zillion. And, he has a delightful habit of losing.
Notes on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteAt the risk of inserting some levity, I am happy to report that I recently made my first Vermont Country Store purchase, a sheet set. Today I made my second, a jacket. And I still want more, especially some of that Vermont maple syrup. The girl's gotta have it. -- nordy
ReplyDeleteOh, I loooooove The Vermont Country Store! Wait tjill you get aload of their candy counter! I highly recommend the Peppermint Puffs.
DeleteHow perfect! Their catalogue was waiting for me in our mailbox when we got home a few minutes ago!
DeleteWe traveled to the NH border today to meet up with a friend we hadn't seen in about 47 years...! Diana and I first encountered one another when we shared the labor room for our first babies...who were born the same day. Then we had our second babies just two months apart. In between we happened to join the same women's group and met in person for the first time (no curtain between us). Our children played together for a year or two, then we moved away and lost touch (no social media or cell phones then).
We met up again when the husband of a friend of mine had a brain tumor, and Diana was their Hospice person. We've been in touch again for over a decade, and FINALLY got together in person! Such a good day.
I have been to the Vermont Country Store in Weston a half dozen times over the years. Often it's in conjunction with attending a Weston theatre production. The shop is huge and convoluted and fun to wander around in...despite it being so old the floors are warped and wonky! Ha! They have just about everything you could think of. The original general store meets department store!
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A couple observations: The folks who accept the Great Replacement Theory and so think immigrants should be removed are not Native Americans. They are all, to a man, descendants of immigrants. So, like, what the hell do they use for brains? None of them would be here if not for Great Grandad who came over from Germany or Great Great Grandma who came over from Italy. We are, to coin a phrase, a nation of immigrants. Hell, the Native Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia umpteen thousand years ago. Where do these idiots think we all came from?
DeleteMore broadly, I think the pickle we're currently in is traceable to a number of causes, among them the declines in civility and courtesy, education, unions, and organized religion during my lifetime if not longer. (I do not consider televangelists and megachurches part of organized religion. Rather than Christianity, they spread and normalize heresy and blasphemy, while encouraging the cult of personality around each individual leader, further sewing disunity and so to speak clique-ism.) We're no longer e pluribus unum, we're just plures. In that state of things the loudest and strongest and cruelest take power. So, here we are.
Well said!
DeleteActual organised religion has had its issues (power struggles, political purposes, cruel crusades), but at least along the way it attempted to value morality, and kept an historical account.
Still, I prefer the work and writings of the mystics over the leaders of the church, generally speaking.
Sen. Kelly is suing Hegseth, Minnesota is suing DHS and ICE and, according to Glenn Kirschner, Illinois is suing DHS and ICE too. So, that brings the count of civil suits against von Schitzenpantz and his regime up to, let's see, about a zillion. And, he has a delightful habit of losing.
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