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| 54th Wedding Anniversary |
It was ten years ago that I wrote about our 44th wedding anniversary pictured at the conclusion of this entry, not the first time I’ve written something about our special occasion (click on “Wedding Anniversary” at the bottom of this entry for all).
Why single out this one anniversary entry? It was merely a postscript to “weekend thoughts,” which featured the subject of our nation’s gun lunacy, and then some light hearted observations about being left handed. In retrospect it was still a time of some innocence, thinking that by making good arguments about gun control somehow progress would be made, that our legislators will see the light, that the slaughtering of schoolchildren and the fear parents must have about sending their kids to school nowadays would be a thing of the past by this time in the future.
And that was in the pre MAGA world; we only had to contend with the Tea Party crazies. Now it’s full bore madness, in all-pervasive Trumplandia.
So the point of commenting on our wedding anniversary of ten years ago is poof, just like that, it is our 54th. And to think of the tectonic changes during those years, Trumpism being front and center, with Covid in the backseat, makes me wonder what this country will be like ten years hence. Small chance I’ll be around. Didn’t think that thought, at least out loud, back then.
Over the years I’ve written about gun control and politics in this blog and in the press, particularly our local paper Palm Beach Post and sometimes the New York Times. Here’s the editorial I wrote in the March 2 Palm Beach Post about SCOTUS agreeing to hear arguments concerning Presidential Immunity and therefore delaying the Jan. 6 trial until after the election. To me it was the final nail:
We celebrated our 54th with a wonderful quiet dinner pictured at the onset of this entry. The world may be falling apart, but grateful we have each other
44th Wedding Anniversary
