"When you are deep in the earthy, messy thick of it, may you remember to look up at the stars and to wonder." ~ Neil Paynter

A Second Bill of Rights...

It's time we discuss and implement the Second Bill of Rights proposed by FDR...busting trade unions and lowering workers' wages was a tactic of fascism...witness Nazi Germany...time to oust the oligarchy of Wall Street and restore our government to the people.

The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then President of the United States, during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt's argument was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:
Employment, with a living wage
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Housing
Medical care
Education
Social security
Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far these and similar rights
had been carried into practice.

Thoughts For The Day

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" -Carl Sagan

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson

" Everything has an existence separate from ourselves...The trick is to recognize the worth of a thing for it's own sake instead of recognizing its worth to you." -Charles DeLint, "Someplace to Be Flying"

"Anyone can attend yoga, kabbalah classes, church, lectures by the 'Dalai Lama', yada, yada, yada - but can you be present for your life, and live with the way you treat other people?" -Tori Amos

"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people in the street and say, 'Have you heard this?'" -Neil DeGrasse-Tyson

"Some are born weird, others achieve it, and some have weirdness thrust upon them." -Alexander Kinlock, To The Hilt by Dick Francis

Preparing the lower garden for potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes and main crop peppers and tomatoes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet potatoes, peppers and tomatoes will have to wait for a few weeks, but onions and potatoes are in.

Asparagus...for supper...and a new bed for the future (oh yeah, northern and walleye fresh caught)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May Day...Beltane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very early spring here.
Interesting to watch how quickly the flora changes now that the growing season is upon us.
Of course, the tender plants like tomatoes and peppers are still in the greenhouse.