Yes, We Can
I am grateful to my fellow citizens for giving us a new hope and a new day.
Out of Scotland, Slowly
On Sunday we left Edinburgh, headed for Northumberland and (we thought) York. Now, if someone says England and tourism, your first thoughts do not turn to Newcastle Upon Tyne, which formerly was the county’s largest city, or for that matter to any place in Northumberland. But for many English folk we have talked to, this area is a great treat, as it has become for us. Jim Marshall first put us onto the area, marking out Alnwick, Holy Island and Bamborough on our maps. We took it from there and spent three days prowling the backroads and coming to love the area, enough so that we delayed our trip to York until after our return from Germany, in order to get a bit more time in that corner of England. So, what have we seen and done to warrant such enthusiasm? Our first stop Sunday afternoon was, in truth, still in Scotland, at Preston Mill and Dovecote or as they put it Phantassie Doocot. The mill, which seems to be a locally popular stopping and walking place, was located an easy half m
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I'm honored to have been amongst those who participated in this monumental election. I'm also dismayed. I'm dismayed that so many people who voted to Obama also voted for Prop 8 and other such measures in other States. I am convinced that freedom to marry the person you desire will be one of the civil rights we look back upon in the future with dismay that we took so long to recognize. Until all share the same civil rights - regardless of any intrinsic characteristic of that person - none of us should rest on the laurels of this victory. None are free until all are free.
When all are free we will have DONE IT!
Julia Tate