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Monday, February 8, 2021

Faith in Democracy

LISTEN. The morning after the Super Bowl is always when I begin my countdown to the true arrival of Spring (Training): pitchers and catchers report, at several camps at least, in 8 days. 

Attempts by the host cities in Arizona to postpone Cactus League 2021 have been withdrawn. Fans of course will still be discouraged from flocking to the desert and to Florida's Grapefruit League, and should be. But just imagining the anticipated sound of balls popping mitts and cracking bats has already returned the bounce my step has been missing since March. That's my "faith in the promise of spring," or (as Margaret Renkl says) of bluebirds. It's Cardinals for me. But as for the Boss's plea for a re-united USA, I'd like to agree that "there's hope on the road up ahead." I don't think a jeep in Kansas is going to get us there.


This week John Dewey is up, in Democracy. (When I say Democracy, these days, or DemMALA, I mean my Master of Liberal Arts course Democracy in America.) 

Dewey appreciated our national pastime... (continues)

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