“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
