EVERYDAY (WHITE HOUSE ORGANIC KITCHEN GARDEN DEBACLE)

Everyday it's a getting closer

Going faster than a rollercoaster

Buddy Holly:  Everyday (Link)

NOTE:  MY KEY TAKEAWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS FOUND IN THe HIDEOUS tale relating THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH DECISION (IF IT WAS AN ACTUAL DECISION, RATHER THAN THE GROSSEST KIND OF SLOB NEGLIGENCE) TO ALLOW THE WHITE HOUSE organic KITCHEN GARDEN TO GO UNHARVESTED AND TO SEED AT THE END OF THE SUMMER GROWING SEASON.  WHO COULD CHOOSE TO DO THIS – DELIBERATELY TO WASTE large quantities of HARVESTABLE FOOD?  WHY COULDN’T MRS. OBAMA, HER CHILDREN, THEIR FRIENDS AND THE WHITE HOUSE chefs and KITCHEN staff pick, gather, share and distribute THE TOMATOES, OKRA, Kale, strawberries AND OTHER VEGETABLES ready ON THE VINE?  WOULD YOU LET YOUR OWN GARDEN BE WASTED AND DESTROYED LIKE THIS? Please click on THIS LINK FOR THE STORY THE NEWSPAPERS FORGOT.  Where are you now, Alice waters?

 

LOVE'S MADE A FOOL OF YOU

  You will find, at times, that an appropriate recital of the facts has compelled me to mix the impure with the pure.  Do not skip over these parts and do not shy away from them, but persevere in your reading.

  As on entering a garden you extend your ivory hands toward the flowers, leaving aside the thorns, so in this case relegate to one side offensive matters and gather what is praiseworthy.

-Giovanni Boccaccio, Famous Women (“Dedication”), edited and translated by Virginia Brown, Cambridge, Harvard University Press (Il Tatti Renaissance Library), 2001.

Sandy Denny -- Love's Made A Fool Of You (Link)