another quasi-neo liberal for peace......

ok ,so my friend gail lent us 2 dvd's to watch this week.....montster's ball.....which we are saving for a completely private moment......and a long walk home...with whoopie goldberg and sissy spacek.......nothing brings out the northern liberal angst like a film with southern violence, abuse, gospel singing,......colored versus whites........i never grew up with any of this....in my birthtown...millersburg, ohio......we grew up with amish children....who were different...but not so different......they did not watch tv.....nor wear underwear with elastic......they wore diapers pinned together with straight pins......now that is devotion......so in my 5th grade year when we moved briefly to hillsboro, ohio.......i was somewhat unprepared for the integrated school that my parents sent us to....it was closer than the segragated school that our neighbors attended.......i can recall being threatened in the bathroom, briefly,.........and then it must have been no fun for the people involved because it never happened again.........because i never play along.........anyway.....we moved that same year to a county that was 100% caucasion.....and that played out until i went to college, and found a job at mt. carmel medical center, where the kitchen staff was 100% black.......i gave rides to and from work to workmates because it was on my way.....and because these people were my friends....my card-playing friends....we played spades every break for 2 solid years.....if i miss anything about columbus, ohio,. it is cards....................so here we are tonight, having just watched the movie gail lent us....and she is not here....she was up to the restaurant helping with the dishes so i could go home.......at least until her daughter was ready for prom.....maybe we will win the lottery tonight, and she will really be my millionaire friend gail......and we will pay other people to do dishes for us......but until we win, well gail is the kind of girl that i owuld want my brother to settle down with......hard-working, dilligent, direct...........any that gail is at work is a good day.....