Some Charlottesville friends of ours are making a pilgrimage to Lexington VA to show support for the owner of the Red Hen restaurant, who took a bold direct action rejecting our corrupt presidency. Beseiged by sudden noteriety, she doesn't deserve the nasty attacks from the trumpians, and now from trump himself. The owner is right that it is time to stand up and reject the abasement of civil society, the crude and cold and cruel policies of this Administration, and I would no

Dear Family. I sure enjoyed having the kids come down last weekend for an early Father's Day. I felt good about going over the Five Wishes packet. Quality time. Today, the official Father's Day, I find myself thinking about my own father-- fleeting flashes of memory, disguised and distorted now, 59 years after his death in 1959. My father was kind, gentle, compassionate, thoughtful, wise-- virtues of character I much admire. Both parents exemplified civic virtue as well, su