Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Wildlife: Happy, chirping Redwing Blackbirds establishing their nests.

Weather: TOO Good -- we're going to blow away with the dust if this continues.

Charity Alert: Show a fellow creature some love!

In The Community: T.R. Reid's lecture on The United States of Europe was pleasant, anecdotal (stories from his own point of view),
and ended on a sobering note -- the Euro is KILLING the Dollar.
(MY THOUGHTS: Smart economists are jumping Captain Queeg's ship, mostly because of our govenment's corrupt short-sighted policies on the social and international fronts.)
The best thing about the European Union, according to Reid, was it's success as a counter-action against the ruinous intercontinental warfare that decimated every generation between the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and WWII in 1945. They (and we) were ready to fight again.
(Why we didn't have a WWIII isn't completely answered by the tale of the European Union, but it is part of the story.)