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 |   Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| Most people in the US will be celebrating St. Patrickâs Day today. Itâs the day when everyone searches their genealogy for Irish ancestors and wears green to work. Nowhere is this day celebrated with greater enthusiasm than it is in Boston, MA. Yet, itâs not the only notable event on the calendar today. In Boston and all of Suffolk County, itâs also Evacuation Day. Evacuation Day commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston in 1776. During the night of March 16th, Washington had installed an impressive amount of artillery on the ridge of Dorchester Heights. On the morning of the 17th, the British, finding themselves in full view of this well-armed fort, quickly decamped to Nova Scotia. It wasnât a battle, but it was a win and it preceded the Declaration of Independence by nearly four months. Evacuation Day is only an official holiday in Suffolk County with only some State offices closed but the kids in Somerville get the day off from school and if youâre a kid youâll celebrate anything that gets you a day off. I think itâs just a good way of teaching history, which is made up of more events and battles than are generally in the list of memorized dates. History is people and decisions and consequences - and days off from school. |
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