TRUMP BOMBS IRAN AND AS WE VISIT WALNUT BAKERY
Another day in which the small bubble I live in and the bubble of the distant world that hangs over me differed from each other.
Susie and I went to Walnut Family Bakery for coffee and savory pastries. It was a sunny day and there were many families there with children either sitting at the picnic tables or sitting on the blankets that the the bakery provided.
Camille, the baker, was to be the birthday cake maker at Rob Amberg’s 75th birthday party in Sicily that I attended a couple of years ago, but then she got a stange incompacitating rash and some Sicilian baked the cake. But now she and her partner have opened up a bakery in nearby Walnut, with wonderful bread and pastries and are doing well, a place that brings delight.
After that Susie and I met Todd at the AB Tech campus in order to vote in the Democratic primary. I had never voted in a primary before, only in the November elections, but in the USA the primaries in which the party’s nominee is selected are almost more imporatant than the final election because many fewer people vote in the primary election and your vote carries more weight.
The three of us voted for the Democrats we thought had the greatest chance of winning in the November elections: Roy Cooper for Senate and Jamie Ager for Congress. The only way to stop out of control Trump is for the Democrats to win the majority in the House of Representatives, we are only 4 votes short, and better yet, for the Democrats to win the majority in the Senate, which will be harder to do. We had to make one more choice of which Democrat we would like for Appelate Court, but knowing nothing about the court I just voted for the woman whom the woman at the Democrat information able outside said she was voting for. This was early voting. I found out on Tuesday, voting day, that my two candidates had won.
Then on a sunny day we drove home and I took a nap without knowing that over in Iran all hell was breaking loose. I never watch television but I get notications on my iPhone about the news and learned that way.
I admit, that the news of the USA’s massive bombing of Iran didn’t touch me much at first. I am so used to Donald Trump doing one outrageous and crazy stunt after another that this just seemed like one more unreal thing that he was doing, almost a fantasy attack. So I went to sleep Saturday night unpreturbed.
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