Homeless veterans

EASTER, a billion dollars

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It was still dark the second time I woke this morning, and I remembered the screaming man. We’d walked to Portland State University to the Saturday Farmers Market. I was hoping to find organic rhubarb, which would go fast. We arrived just before it opened and walked all the way around, but only one booth had rhubarb and it wasn’t organic, so we went back to the south end to buy our favorite breakfast. Nathan smiled and asked, “Two?” because we always order the artichoke and cotilla cheese tamales with everything but the hottest sauce.

Here is the sky from the other morning, but we’re in Portland this morning. Gary checked in with Mary who, we learned, was home after ten days in the hospital. I baked cranberry bread from berries in the freezer here and Gary took some to a neighbor. Our family is busy with work and school so we won’t likely see anyone but our immediate neighbors here in Portland I am scheduled to run, once the sun is up. Today is supposed to be warm, in the 70s, but we’ll be back at the beach by then.
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IN EXCELSIS DEO

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I nearly didn’t post this week at all. But let me share a personal tradition that I miss while I’m sitting here on the sofa, the television paused. I had a writing assignment I shared but the most important thing I used to do this time of year, when I was teaching, was show episode 10 of season 1 of The West Wing. The entire series is playing on Netflix just now. A homeless vet dies wearing a coat that Toby Ziegler donated to charity. It had his business card in the pocket and for that reason Toby is called by the DC police to the Korean War Veterans Memorial in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.. They hope he can identify the body.

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