I am busy busy busy. Or I just feel like I am. I am still recuperating from the flu I got from playing in the Pacific Ocean for too long on a cold day (I know, still.) I am very grateful for my trip to Portland and wish it could have lasted longer. I just took my small neighbor Natalie to ballet where she was lost in a sea of seventy other little girls who are dressed like spirits but look like trees because they have a recital tomorrow. So now I am waiting for her to be done, and I just want to take a nap.
Today I watched the History channel for a good two or so hours about the year 1968. It was very interesting to see the time line of that year and how insane it was. There was this guy named Mark Rudd who was all about radicalism that started the Columbia University Revolt which raged on for days and involved the students of the University taking over five different buildings and ended with an intense student vs. police fight. Rudd’s mindset was that if they could start a revolt big enough, maybe they would put an end to Vietnam. I think it also had something to do with the building of a segregated gymnasium in a nearby park. And then I watched Robert Kennedy’s thank you speech after he won the California vote for democratic candidacy, and then his assassination. It was really sad and actually made me cry. I haven’t mentioned anything about Martin Luther King Jr. because I came into the program too late.
So that’s all I have to say for now. Amos’ blogs are always so much better and more interesting. But that’s Amos for you, always better than everyone else.
