Columbus day, a day to celebrate colonialism and destruction. I never understood how anyone in their right mind could have thought that Columbus discovered anything. If I were to climb over the fence in my back yard and end up in your yard, you would not say that I discovered your back yard. You obviously had discovered your own back yard, I instead came and stole your family and put them on boats to sail back to England, did I mention you all have small pox now. Tuff break. Hurrah Columbus day!
Seriously, its a pretty messed up day. We are celebrating some odd stuff here. In more temporally local news things have been going swimmingly. I miss Tess a lot, but she is in the law school and is busy busy busy. Which is good in a way because she is getting really really smart and one day will be able to use all that new brain mass for good. I can see her charging the ramparts of the legal system to fight for what is right and what is good.
I on the other hand have been developing my den mother skills. I feel they get better and better each day. Soon I will have group dynamics down. That is of course until the next blow up, or break down. But you know I have top marks till then.
Went to NH this weekend, lovely. I hiked a tiny mountain and saw lots of really nice leaves, and of course got to see Tess who is the nicest mountain and prettiest leaf of them all. It’s true.
What about people who “discovered” the polar caps? The polar caps were always there, and even tho we don’t celebrate a Commander Peary polar discovery day, would you argue the same? Or anyone else who “discovered a new land”, like Australia? Or are you just biased?
Perhaps you misunderstood, its not that i have a problem with people discovering new places. But why Columbus day? He didn’t discover anything, and his actions with the native people where far from something I think we should celebrate. You ask a good point, why don’t we celebrate the natives discovery of Australia, or North America? Why do we instead have a holiday celebrating a guy who bumped into a land by accident, and then started to immediately enslave and kill the people who already lived there?