August 27, Camp Casey.... and HOT!

A quick note about Camp Casey doin’s today. Mostly it is VERY hot. And I’m quite surprised how tough it is for me to adjust to the heat. Next time I won’t try to camp in a tent under the baking sun with little access to water for cooling down. Am I officially “old” or just “too pampered”?

The bus carrying a number of families traveling from Seattle to New Orleans stopped by this afternoon. They had lunch then took a tour of historical Camp Casey, “the Ditch,” aka Camp Casey 1, Camp Casey 2 (near Bush’s ranch under the big tent) and Camp Casey 3, the current 5-acre spot that is morphing into the permanent settlement. The travelers will be on their way to Houston after that, due in NO tomorrow.

News from another front in the struggle to “reclaim the commons” (that is, the common humanity between all of us that deserves full expression): Mike Ferner, Vet for Peace, writer and author (his recent book, Inside the Red Zone (http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9243.aspx) is out this September) all round generous guy (met him in Baghdad’s Agideer Hotel in 2004 when he helped me locate my son on the military base) and with many other credits towards his humanity, felt strongly enough about the war and the apparent lack of effort from our fellow citizens, that he sprayed a message on a bridge in Toledo. Now he is under house arrest until the end of October… with a tracking bracelet on his ankle. Read Mike’s article: http://www.selvesandothers.org/article14943.html. Holy spit! Shades of Apartheid South Africa.