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SummerVille
OK, OK, OK.
Maybe not in the fountain.
But how about the sprinkler?
I have to say, coming home to water the garden is not something I look forward to with great anticipation, but once I get at it there is something cooly meditative about it on a warm summer evening.
And it's even better if one of the E.'s comes out to help and we super-soak each other.
Which is what Little E. and I did tonight.
Bigger E. stayed inside, flopped out exhausted on the sofa. Today was her grade seven graduation and, believe you me, the younger they are the harder they fall.
And besides, it seems like only yesterday that she was sitting in the igloo cooler on the floor of our kitchen in Berkeley California pretending it was choo-choo train spaceship to Sammygitgo*.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq J - At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies -- a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration.San Jose Mercury News, June 2006
"If our response to terrorism is merely to terrorize other people in return, we are not in fact fighting terrorism at all, we are creating yet more terrorism for the future."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
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*aka 'San Francisco' when you're not quite two years old.
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Paul William Roberts, In: A War Against Truth, pg 135
After Returning To A Bombed And Occupied Baghdad, April 2003
After Returning To A Bombed And Occupied Baghdad, April 2003
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
The federal government is set to go on a defence spending spree this week, but it falls short of a Senate committee's proposals and in some cases the military's wish list. Almost all of the $15 billion of capital purchases -- ships, aircraft, helicopters and trucks -- were either promised by Stephen Harper's Tories in the last federal election or planned by the previous Liberal government.
Canadian Press, June 2006
If only I could just permanently soak my head 'till waterlogged so that I can become a......
....Stepford Dad.
Because sometimes paying attention is just too much work, especially in the Summer heat.
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*aka 'San Francisco' when you're not quite two years old.
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