...it fits.
Basically, we have worked about the house, (beginning the ultimate clean out of our home, for what ever move we might make) walked outside, watched You Tubes, done some careful travel by car, beginning to work on family history, targeted and necessary appointments such as dentist, doctor (and today, a haircut).
And, thank Goodness we have not needed the Doctor very much at all!
And reading.....
Who knew I had such an interesting library of used books gleaned over the many years at second-hand book stores, book exchanges, etc? (I've been preparing for the Pandemic for all these years!)
So I have shopped my stash!
Latest is a slim paperback volume by Francis N. Stites on the life of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall-Defender of the Constitution.
Interesting--in a nutshell--the early founders and framers of our institutions had to assemble the principles of our Rule of Law from the cases they had before them: several had to do with land deals and real estate claims in the West; Marbury vs. Madison (established the importance of the contract to the individual in law) was an employment dispute.
Marshall himself was a Virginian, son of a bootstrapped farmer; he had extensive real estate in VA and in the emerging area of Kentucky. He was loyal and loving to a young wife who never recovered from the nervous breakdown she had, early in their marriage, over the successive deaths of a couple of children! She was almost completely house bound, in her room and needing quiet--but she kept having children.
This little book was published about 1980; I'm not sure it could be released in our world today.
The Framers and Founders of the US were not naive or stupid. They saw and understood evil and criminal behavior. They had the likes of Aaron Burr to content with, after all. But I wonder if they were able to anticipate and foresee the gradual rise of Marxist Communism (50-80 years in the future)? A seemingly unstoppable progression of thuggery, staged on a world wide basis? I just don't know.
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