It's awfully noisy out there

[pameladean]

I'm sure an actual war sounds much worse and completely different, but what it sounds like out there, in my neighborhood, is gunshots, cannon, rockets, popcorn popping, cap guns, bacon frying (oh no!) and some extremely large animal rooting around in a monstrous pile of crisp dry leaves. There's not much light visible from these shenanigans. I hope they are being done in a joyous spirit and that everybody retains the eyes and fingers they were born with when it is all over.

David and I drove out to Eden Prairie to have an indoor picnic with my mother and admire her progress in making miniatures for dollhouses. We saw a few bits of various fireworks displays as we drove east and north back to Minneapolis.

It's still very sticky, as it has been for several days, flattening me completely, but it's no longer so hot.

I've never been much for Fourth of July celebrations, though I usually reread the Declaration of Independence. It has the sweetness of immediacy and the bitterness of irony, this year.

Pamela

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

bacon frying (oh no!)

:-) :-) :-)

K. and I like your idea of re-reading the Declaration]

[redbird]

I was walking through the park Friday morning, on my way to the train to work, and heard a low boom somewhere to the south. It took a conscious act of will to tell myself "fireworks. Don't panic" and keep walking. A conscious act of will and the realization that if it was terrorist activity, I wasn't any less safe a few hundred feet further south.

Last night I was expecting that sort of noise--but not at 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Newsday printed the Declaration--in the original eighteenth-century lettering, and with the signatures--in Friday's paper. I trimmed the edges of that page, and hung it on my office wall: it'll fit in nicely with the general patriotic/flag display tone of the place, and it's something I'm glad to have there.

[pameladean]

(bacon) I haven't read that in years, but whole passages came back to me.

The Declaration is quite a lively document really, and the language is just absolutely splendid.

Pamela

[pameladean]

Ow.

I think of terrorist activity every time there's a power glitch, but not having yet been the direct recipient of it, and living in a neighborhood where people like to start with the bottle rockets several days ahead of time, I didn't have quite that heart-stopping reaction to the fireworks.

I haven't got a proper Declaration, but it's printed in the backs of several of our dictionaries. I like your idea.

Pamela

[lcohen]

i had no awareness of it's being the 4th of july. i'm not sure i left the hotel on sunday. weird.

*hug*