UPDATE IN A DOWN TIME

QUESTION?
WHERE AND WHEN IS IGNORANCE  BLISS?
ANSWER--
RIGHT HERE IN THE BUCKET AND SURROUNDING "PLANTATIONS"


Certainly the corona virus and the upsurge of  violence has combined to create an atmosphere of anxiety here. We have not gone out for several months and all appointments with doctors have been cancelled, postponed or turned into virtual visits.

On the creative side I am feeling some more energy to work on a play  for the Blue Cow entry into the PROVIDENCE FRINGE. SO there is a kind of busyness.  But my poetry activity  has stalled.
Guess I have too many pots  on the fire.



As usual strange things are happening in RHODE ISLAND.


The SPEAKER OF The HOUSE  admitted that he didn't know there was slavery in Rhode Island's history.


 Rhode Island  made and sailed the majority of vessels in the slave trade . There were slaves on Aquidneck Island.

  He then capped that performance by saying that he did not know what  JUNETEENTH was about.


Now maybe this is  an indictment of the way history is taught but it is also a naked and almost gleeful
 display of amazing ignorance.