Tuesday, November 30, 2010

instead of candles

Tonight we went to a vigil to show support for the Muslim community. It was a candlelight vigil, but I didn’t take a candle. I said to Chuck, candles make me feel weak, and he said he knew. Instead of candles, he said, it seemed like we should hold flares.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Mosque


Last night someone set a fire in the mosque near my house. Just to show that we can target innocent people too, I guess.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Oregon in the winter


My mother is in Hawaii and my kids are packing for Mexico. Here the winter sky is gray almost every day. It's gray and bleak and we live like people buried beneath plastic, like someone has stretched a plastic tarp over our heads and all we can do is wait for it to stop. My kids don’t mind the weather, but they are packing for Mexico. They are buying shorts and swim suits.