EPISODE 158 GRANDMA WRAPPED HOT BRICKS\u2026ADDITIONAL COMMENT
\nalan skeoch Nov. 6, 2020
\nWhat a day this will be\u2026what a grand and wonderful day. What a day that has emerged from the long dark night. Briden will win the presidency and then I firmly believe all things are possible.
\nMy story about a frail woman, wracked with Parkinson\u2019s disease\u2026old… yet as strong as steel is not irrelevant. Grandma Louisa Bufton Freeman triumphed over the adversities of life. Triumphed. As I believe the American democracy has done by a razor thin victory.
\nTriumphed\u2026 with Joe Biden.
\nThere will be dark days ahead but the sun is rising.
\nalan skeoch
\np.s. When I taught history. Especially when I taught the more philosophical aspects of human history\u2026 political systems\u2026I noted just how fragile democracy can be using this comment. \u201cDemocracy is a troubled spirit whose dream, if it dream, presents only visions of hell.\u201d Those visions of hell have been present, have they not? Well those visions have been relieved on this day\u2026Nov. 6, 2020.
\nP.P.S. Grandma wrapped the hot bricks in newspaper\u2026thin, fragile newspaper. Today we have wrapped a very hot brick in a very thin layer of hope\u2026newspaper thin. The hot brick remains. I know that. But it can be contained in time\u2026the brick will cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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