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Quiet and nice Sunday. Started off with the NYTimes ritual reading. Ron had warned me that the magazine was going to be grim, but it went way beyond that in oh so many ways. Doesn’t give me much hope for the world when a grandmother fleeing Kabul into Pakistan would hold her infant grandson up to the Taliban and urge them to take the child rather than beating and possibly killing her grown son. Her comment was that her son was the only person who could work on behalf of the family. I guess I understand the survival thinking there but barely.

That’s really only the tip of the iceberg. If you want to see more, you can find it at the NYTimes site.

Then we visited with my parents for awhile. Mom is busy making christmas stockings for a guild project in December.

Came home and made gingersnaps, a double batch so I can share at work, especially with Kenn (OS Kenn as we call him) the Asst manager who is making my schedule more bearable – thank you very much. They came out pretty good, even that first sheet which always comes out a little darker than the rest. Did the dishes, cleaned the frig. Made coffee to go with the cookies! Very important.

Now I’ve been helping Ron with some photos he’s working on for someone else. Meanwhile, I’ve been surfing a bit and found a cool blog