Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My husband and I received our second shot of the vaccine this morning. I'm feeling so grateful. Now I feel hopeful my kids will soon get theirs, and by summer, life will be more normal, if not absolutely so. I am relaxing with our new President in charge. He's clear, understandable and steady. Yesterday there was a new part of one of my news sites on my phone that allowed me to read what was happening in my county, who was eligible right now and who would be next. I could follow every word. Another site had excellent information as well. I'm turning back to the news a bit, now that it isn't dominated by fake facts. And it rained last night and today, which is so good for our poor old drought ridden state. I'm reading Ibram X Kendi's history of the use of the term race in our country, titled "Stamped From the Beginning". It's clear and insightful, and divided into 5 parts: Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, WEB Du Bois, and Angela Davis. My older son's mentor in college was Angela Davis, so I'll be reading that part especially eagerly. Right now I'm on Thomas Jefferson, and he was one confused theorist. The truth is his life and leisure was paid for with the labor of his 200 slaves, and he produced his own slaves through his relationship with Sally Hemmings, which began when she was 14 and he was 41 and lasted until his death. Garrison's biography I've already read, as my neighbor wrote a biography of him years ago that was one of the five finalists for the National Book Award. By the way, Kendi's book was the National Book Award winner as well. Riveting reading!