Monday, Monday

Dragon Mood? -- restless
 
I was just reading about all the security precautions that the city of Boston has put in place for the Democratic Convention.  It actually makes me feel anxious and worried.

I will return to that thought in a minute.   Saturday night, S and I took my nephew, Luke, to dinner at an upscale (for mid-Michigan and for us) restaurant, replete with flights of wine, $25-plus entrees, Sri Lankan stout and fat stogies to finish it off.  We sat outside, next to planter boxes filled with flowers, watched the sun paint the sky with fantastical sunset colors and (yes, we drank that late into the night), then watched the stars emerge.

S loves a party, she loves to talk and she loves to talk politics with Luke.  She was completely in her element Saturday night.  We talked endlessly about politics, about society's continuing discrimination of women, and we talked about terrorism.  (On a more mundane level, we talked about Dan Brown's allegedly plagiarized research on the DaVinci Code, and S must have brought up Mel Gibson's, "The Passion of Christ " at least four times, but no one --thank God!--bit on that conversational tidbit.)

One of the predictions that came out of our Saturday evening conversation was that if there is a terrorist attack between now and the November election, it's very likely that Bush will be re-elected.  While the American people may be fed up with the Iraq war and the current administration's lies to them, they will put all that aside and rally behind the Commander-in-Chief.

I pray that there is no terrorist attack and I pray that the American people deal with Bush as they see fit.

You know how I feel about that!