Went to "Love Letters," the play by our Little Egg Theatre Company at the Community Center yesterday. It's simply a man and woman sitting at separate desks on-stage, reading letters to each other, exchanged over a 50+ year period. The man was played by our good friend and next-door neighbor, Frank D., and I went with Ray and Barb, next-door neighbors on the other side. Susan joined us there.
What fun to be away and enjoying myself without worrying about what's going on at home! P. and N. stayed with Pat, who was watching a hockey game anyway, and everything was fine.
P. made a delicious catfish "stew," with his usual various components. I don't know where he learned how to put ingredients together so well, but I had two bowls.
Web cammed with Ellen and we had a good chat. She talked to P. and N., also. Tillie is greatly improved, eating on her own, and should get her feeding tube out shortly.
P. and N. are going to the Popcorn Park Zoo today, then up to Ewing where we used to live. A. will come for dinner and Donna, Pat's niece, may, also; I'll call her.
So good to have my children here.
Wider: From William Astore's "American Foreign Legion":
"Now would be a good time for President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to begin to reclaim that military for its proper purpose: to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Now would be a good time to ask exactly why, and for whom, our troops are currently fighting and dying in the urban jungles of Iraq and the hostile hills of Afghanistan."
But the whole thing should be read; here's the link:
http://tomdispatch.com/post/175034/william_astore_whose_military_is_it_anyway_