An Early Start For Me And The Builders Next Door Morning Coffee Muses

I am not a morning person. Never have been. But today started at 5:30. And for the workers next door, they started their hammering at 6:30. My main chore for the day is my Deere meditations, so, early is probably good. What with afternoon temperatures pushing 100°, early is better.

It’s been a busy week next door. They have gone from foundation forms to an almost framed house in four days. At this rate they should have a roof on it soon.

I find much of my day consumed by my disdain for the conservatives in my country. To think that anyone still believes that Confederate memorials, statues, or symbols in this day could be anything other than symbols of white supremacy just amazes me. I have no problem with them on a battlefield, in a cemetery or in a museum. But, parks and public squares, places where heroes are honored, is not the place to put statues of men who led a rebellion in support of slavery.

To have the President try and equivocate Robert E Lee with Washington and Jefferson is just wrong. Wrong headed, wrong hearted… just wrong. And when a majority of people polled think the statues should stay up… Well, I thought better of my fellow citizens. I am saddened to discover I was wrong.

I have finished my coffee, my muse, and my hopes for American greatness. Gotta go…