book club.....

ok, so tonight was book club, which i managed to fit in between supper and alias........the book was galileo's daughter....a book which i found most depressing as to the fate of illegitimate daughters in the 1600's...basically sold off to nunneries to do menial labor until they died of old age or starved to death...of course, our group decided that these women were above slaves because they believed in what they did........yeh, right......they believed in the cloister, the rationed food, the vows of silence, the cold, as well as the gospel......our discussion turned quickly to politics.....to the new conservatism that allows no dissent......the wide divide between red states and blue states....and the pendulum effect...in that blue states such as mass. started out as vehemently conservative colonies.........and we await the pendulum to swing down our way sometime in our lifetimes........i hate to think that all of liberal danville was in this living room tonight......as there have to be more free thinkers amongst us than the lawyers, bankers, doctors and others present......ah well.....a good reason to go out on a cold night.......next book club is our annual dinner meeting, which is always on the wednesday nearest my birthday....this year we read a movable feast, by ernest hemingway...one of my favorite books and i did not even suggest it........