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Looks like my last post was around June 11th which reported my last Duluth Reader column which was also the last since I decided not to file for Congress. The six past weeks have been full of ideas for stuff to write but other than some random texts and email I’ve kept my thoughts to myself except when boring Claudia with my mornings musings based on Trump, Life, my garding and war agains deer and thinking about some travel to celebrate the untainted parts of Trump’s 250th anniversary self promotion.
Watched him last night threaten to take away the broadcast liscences of ABC and NBC as he failed to release any evidence of election tampering in a futile bid to move his diminishing power in Congress.
Claudia and I spent a week in Thunder Bay, Canada through their July 1 Canada Day past our July 4 birthday. We followed World Cup Soccer. Did a little traveling around the far north shore and enjoyed cool temps. I finished my book on Nixon and brought my new Goodwill find A Tale of Two Cities. I will get back to it as a story about nations in crises but have set it aside to read a wonderful find a book on Lincoln that makes a strong case for the kind of Lincoln I yearn for. I just added the Nixon book The Contender by Irwin Gellman to my revised reading list. Gellman is a little too defensive about defending Nixon from a passel of 1970’s biographers who had their undies in a bunch portraying him as a lifetime troll. His was a much more interesting story than than that although he was visited by the dark side somewhere leading up to 1968. Even Gellman only manages to bring him up to 1960 when he ran against JFK. I’m not sure he intends to pursue the story any farther.
Home and Yard maintainance has slowed my reading but as I close this post I’m headed back to Father Abraham, Lincoln’s relentless struggle to end slavery by Richard Striner.
I strongly think I read a review of this book twenty years ago. Whether or not I did I’m very glad to have found it. I’ve been enjoying chatting with my AIs about books. They know a lot and know it instantly and confess when I find them reaching.
