I'm working outside on a beautiful sunny day in North Carolina. It's the first day of spring and the temperature is a perfect 20 degrees (approx. 68 celsius). Cleaning out the leavings of the fall/winter season, gathering some fire wood, planting kale on the slate of activities for the day. It's our 6th day here, and we'll have a couple of days off coming up. Hoping to stop by and see my cousin Joanne and her family, including newborn Landon Henry, two other sons, and husband, Steve. They live in Chapel Hill proper while we are in the rural district. Nice neighbours around. We are staying with an academy award winning radical (Michael Moore was not the first)named Barbara Trent. Her Panama Deception won the award, but she has gone on to document other political scenarios, cover ups, tragedies, etc. as well as share her skills and her passion with many students through her http://www.empowermentproject.org/
We have at our disposal a huge number of films for possible viewing. In addition to an outstanding documentary collection, Barbara has all of the films of the year come to her in her capacity as a voting member of the Academy. What has really made a huge difference to us, though, is not this huge library of films, but rather regular and consistent access to the internet. What had been a huge backlog that I had been carrying around with me is essentially clearing up, vis. this updated blog...
We have stopped by here for a couple of weeks to help Barbara out with her farmstead. It's very timely as it is planting time, and Barbara had gotten behind in a number of projects due to a head on automobile accident which she suffered in the fall.
