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I don't usually comment on politics, but this quote from a New York Times article by Ron Suskind was a bit mind-boggling...
( The White House vs. the 'reality-based community' )
( The White House vs. the 'reality-based community' )
Oct. 22nd, 2004
More from China!
Oct. 22nd, 2004 08:42 pmHR is teaching English to 13- to 15-year-olds this year in Macheng, China. I looked on a map; it's about 300 miles inland from Shanghai, in Hubei Province. She says (my first conversation with a person in China!) that they're comfortable there and the kids are very excited about English and thrilled to meet their first foreigners. The one thing she told me that I really wanted to share, because I loved the image it put in my mind, was that she's introducing the kids to Halloween and just carved them their first ever jack-o-lantern. They have lots of colors of pumpkins there, she says, yellow, green, spotted, and white, in addition to orange. Can't you just picture the Chinese kids all gathered 'round their first jack-o-lantern?
Speaking of which, I went on a brisk walk in the mist after dark this evening, and beneath the stately row of oaks on 41st I smelled the rich aroma of baked pumpkin for nearly half a block. (Making me crave pumpkin pie is rather counter to the point of getting exercise, but it sure was heavenly.)
Speaking of which, I went on a brisk walk in the mist after dark this evening, and beneath the stately row of oaks on 41st I smelled the rich aroma of baked pumpkin for nearly half a block. (Making me crave pumpkin pie is rather counter to the point of getting exercise, but it sure was heavenly.)