In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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Working Cape trip with Cathy
Sun, 2008/03/16 - 8:42am — Benjamin MelançonLast Sunday (one week ago, March 9th).
The weather was so nice, if a little windy, that we circumnavigated Doctor's Hill and later walked all the way to the shack. Zelda and Rusty got a lot of walk
The purpose for my going was to help Grandpa out.
Cathy did the driving both ways and helped move beds in the re-done guest room and put photo albums back in the red room, and arranged the the strange knickknacks on the shelves.
I cooked veggie and real meatballs.
Grandpa and I owe Cathy a better meal and an actual Cape vacation :-P
Visit to Grandpa's with Heat and Afam (last weekend)
Thu, 2007/08/02 - 12:09pm — Benjamin MelançonPerfect, really, the weather held off perfectly, for the overnight trip to Provincetown, Saturday to Sunday.
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We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.