Johnny

Recently a bald eagle has made a tree in our front yard his hang out spot. He came to sit on this dead tree last week. The tree is marked to get cut down, but after 4 nights of this eagle coming to sit on it at night, we were thinking that they couldn't chop it down. On one of the nights, there was quite a storm. We watched as he stayed strong and sat up there through the whole thing. Having just seen the play 1776, we decided to name him John Adams (Johnny for short). He disappeared for a few days, so we thought maybe he had moved on, but he was back this morning. He just sits up there looking so wise, checking everything out. This morning there was a crow sitting on a branch near him making a bunch of noise. Johnny didn't even seem to notice.

More Boston

We went to the JFK library on my birthday . It was a wonderful presentation on his life and in a beautiful location on the U of Mass campus.

"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came."

-John F. Kennedy
September 14, 1962

Here's his old sailboat:

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

-Senator Robert F. Kennedy
June 6, 1966


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