In the Deep South I experienced comfortable, early-November weather, not oppressive heat, which in a way would have been good because hot, humid weather is the essence of our dreams of the South.
My tour guide at Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's house in Jackson, Mississippi, the town in which "The Help" was situated. Ms. Welty was in favor of human rights and loved camellias.
A camellia close-up.
This plaque, with sunlight playing over it in Eudora Welty's garden reads: "The outside world is the vital component of my inner life...My imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember of my living world."
Eudora Welty's Pulitzer Prize was found in a box in a closet in her house. Either she was very humble about the prize, or wanted to appear humble, or forgot she had it, or didn't like the people on the committee who selected her, or.....She also won two Presidential Medals of Honor, an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and five other world-class literary prizes. She didn't display any of them.
Pictures of Occupy Birmingham. They are pressuring the government to pass campaign finance reform that keeps big corporations out of elections. They are also interested in tax reform that levels the playing field and makes the American dream more obtainable for those who aren't extremely wealthy. Temperatures get into the teens in Birmingham several nights per winter. It's that cold or colder every night for Occupy Portland, Maine, where I attended a General Assembly. Occupy Maine intends to be there all winter in order to effect change. What do you think of the Occupy movement?
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