The 4th of July was on a Thursday. For some people that is a good thing because they could combine a holiday with a Friday vacation day and get a long weekend. For some people, Friday is still a work day and that “sucks”.
I like it when the world has a normal “hummmm”. It is like worker bees going about their business. I like the buzz of financial markets reporting that the Fed is still buying mortgage backed securities. I like reports that countries such as Egypt are rioting for new government (there is always a country that is rioting or threatening nuclear attack). It is okay that the Brewers lost again in Washington D.C. You get the idea. There is a “hummmm” to the world.
The 4th of July had an erie silence to it. Yeah there were parades, rodeos, picnics and fireworks but the daily hummmm to life had been interrupted. Our neighborhood did not have a single child playing outside (it was sunshine and beautiful). There was an absence of traffic all day long. The only explanation was that some families went on vacation, some went to a family cottage, picnic or outing. It could be that all the kids were inside playing Nitendo or X-Box games. Occasionally during the day, you would see a parent outside mowing his/her lawn.
In the midst of all this silence, your Mom and I went to see the movie “Tonto”. Whoops. It was titled the “Lone Ranger”. You know, “return with me the days of yester-year, the masked man rides again. Hi-Ho Silver, away”. The movie is not quite that way. It is told from the perspective of Tonto (Johnny Depp with s painted face and a dead crow on his head). Depp confirms that indians are smarter and more intuitive that the white man. Dah! It is interesting perspective of the old West. The movie theaters weren’t packed either.
So today is a return of the normal Hummmm. It is a partial Hummmm but at least doesn’t have the “celebritory feel”. I like that.
Love,
Dad