The rain did come in yesterday--a nice and pretty steady rain. The wind did kick up but nothing affected in the gardens. We still have clouds and intermittent rain today. I look forward to a lazy Sunday since everything for supper simply has to be heated--no complex cooking.
David Kaiser has an interesting post on his History Unfolding blog. The surviving author of The Fourth Turning is out with a new book: The Fourth Turing Is Now. I read the first book and think I will give the second a pass. The one thing I like best about The Fourth Turning was its cyclic nature. We have, as a society, been taught that history is lineal with the path leading from a degraded past ascending through the present to some even more advanced place in the future. For most historians regressions are only temporary interruptions in a triumphal march into a golden future. Kaiser gives a bit of a hypothetical vision into very different possibilities and makes a good case that the future won't be like the past.
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