Countdown to a Move

So, we are doing the things that you do before you move.  Set up new utilities in Virginia.  Sort, filter, pack up the office.  We have a contract on our home here in Kentucky.  We feel lucky.  If the inspection is good, our house would have been on the market 48 days.  I know people who still have their homes in other cities on the market and are now counting into a new year wondering if the house will sell.  I don’t know how you make two mortgage payments or even a mortgage and rent these days.  If all the paperwork goes through we will have one ‘double’ month before we close in Virginia.  The house in Virginia is great.  Again, we feel lucky to have found it and are able to get a mortgage for it.

Packing up provides laughter, good tears, and the opportunity to sort and filter what goes from this place to the next.  In my life I have moved eight times, not including different jobs during the summers in college.  And, during all those moves I can count 21 different apartments, town houses, or houses that have been home.  Some stuff is given away, some sold, some just thrown out each time.  It is part of the process.  My parents tell me that there are a couple boxes of my stuff in their barn in Texas, and wonder if I will or my sister for that matter ever claim same.  As we countdown to a move we are, I am taking the time to sort, filter, laugh, and weap a little.  It is cleansing.

, 06/10/2009. Category: Michael D.

Commentary: Judge Sotomayor is not a racist

Michael D Note: This is a good read on the current nominee for the Supreme Court.  I am a white male who has benefited from being a white male in our culture.  This commentary from CNN by Sherrilyn A. Ifill is a good rebuttal to those who would claim that Judge Sotomayor is a reverse racists.

When Don Imus denigrated in clearly racist terms the championship women’s basketball team from Rutgers University; when actor Michael Richards screamed at black guests in a comedy club, calling them the “n-word” and invoking the threat of lynching; when Trent Lott said that things would have been better if a southern segregationist had been elected president a half-century earlier, responsible white people from across the ideological spectrum stepped forward to explain that these individuals were not racist.

It is an insult of unimaginable proportion to unleash this charge on her, based on one sentence from her Berkeley, California, speech. It is not just irresponsible to make this charge against a sitting federal appeals court judge based on this flimsy record; it is — and here I’ll break the taboo — racist to do so.

Click here to read the entire commentary.

, 05/29/2009. Category: Culture.
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