AMORGOS

Eco Lodges Anywhere featured an article listing the 15 hidden gem Greek islands. Islands people might want to visit to beat mass tourism.

One of the islands is Amorgos. My Amorgos. My favorite. A nothing. Which makes it “the best!”

The ferry boat comes in once a week. No airport. The ferry boat the only way on and off the island. On the island, transportation primarily by foot.

Everything one hundred years ago.

Dramatic sea views. Mysterious caves. A different kind of architecture. 

Laid back.

Crashing waves and blissful hiking trails.

Few people. Very few people. Even with visitors.

Fishermen go out in the morning in beat up old row boats with a motor on the back.

Everyone dresses in black.

The island small, but loaded with culture and tradition.

I love it!

Two former major nations that failed to live up to their predictions.

The Roman Empire would last forever. It lasted a thousand years. Nazi Germany was to last 1,000 years. It lasted 12 years.

I have complained of the heat for 7 days. So have my friends. It is a fact. Today is expected to be the worst. In certain parts of South Florida, “feels like” temperatures of 113 degrees or higher are expected. Palm and Broward Counties expected to reach that level.

Overall night temperature for the areas this time of year is 74 degrees. Last night was expected to hit around 80 degrees.

Key West will be abnormally hotter, though no temperature published.

The reason for the abnormal heat is the wind which is coming at us out of the south. Normally comes at us from the east.

Dangerous weather. Remain inside. Enjoy air conditioning.

Free speech is All-American. Unquestionably important.

Trump continues to claim he will deport “all American protesters.” He is the biggest enemy of free speech in the country.

And he wants to be Presidnet?

Preakness today. The race 6:50 pm. Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan favored. 

Republicans continue to knock the economy. They lie. And then lie some more. The sadness of it is that many Americans believe them.

The truth. The DOW closed yesterday above 40,000 for the first time. It briefly passed 40,000 thursday, but fell back before closing. Yesterday it crossed and closed over 40,000.

I was store shopping in the Winn-Dixie Shopping Center yesterday afternoon. Ran into a family of 2 parents and 5 children. The oldest child could not have been more than 6. Five children in six years.

The couple young. I asked the father if they were all his children. He proudly said, “Yes!”

Reminded me of our family. We had 4 children in 5 years. Would have been 5 in 5, but we lost the last one.

It takes a good woman to raise that size family who are so close in ages. We started our family when I was in law school. Pure insanity! Then they started coming, One after another. This was back in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. My wife was a “good  Catholic” and refused to practice birth control.

I was little help in raising the children in their early years. My responsibility was to feed them. I was working day and night and weekends to build a law practice. The responsibility fell on my wife. She did an excellent job.

Red Lobster bankruptcy news continues. The “successful” restaurant chain is going under because of the “endless shrimp.”

Enjoy your day!

3 comments on “AMORGOS

  1. “My Freedoms, my freedoms” was the mantra of those behind the Palin revolution. Later that became the pamtra of the MAGA right and Republican’s everywhere. But it’s always Republicans that have been denying personal freedoms. Back in your day Lou, it was Joe McCarthy denying freedoms to anyone, under the commie scare, he (they) attached to anything they didn’t like. Now a days republicans are banning books everywhere and dictating medical care/treatments.

    What makes those on the right (republicans) so vocal about fighting for freedoms yet far and away the most likely to deny when able.

  2. Sure the Dow is up 40,000. But the MAGA’s don’t know that, because their sources for information don’t post that kind of news. Ask your buddy Ed (EYW) if the “Maine Wire” bothered to report that.

    Nor did FOX, NY Post, Washington Times, etc. etc.

    They are more interested in making you think everything is bad, than being honest or even reasonably informed.

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