Oak Desk

I loved that oak desk, but to make room for floor to ceiling bookshelves, Jeff told me I'd have to get rid of it, so I put an ad on Craigs list, and someone said she and her boyfriend could come for it on Thursday, a day that worked for Javier and me, so they got it.  I wanted them to know about Nicole Krauss' desk in Great House, but the printout on that stayed here with me.  I got a nice thank you e-mail from him yesterday and sent him the link to lots of references about how the desk connected stories and lives.  I didn't mean this as a link between us but rather as an item that affects lives.

One of the things we found at the very back of the desk was a Doonesbury cartoon from 2004.  Gary Trudeau has an "IN MEMORIAM" and lists all of the people (our soldiers, the ones who are counted) who have died in the war.  That was only 2004--just a year and a couple of months after our attack, invasion, and occupation of Iraq.  Now we want to do more of the same in Iran--once again an aggression  "justified" by those weapons of mass destruction which threaten our nation, the only nation in the world that has ever use nuclear weapons against civilians.