(Krishna Consciousness had some prime real estate on the Mall today - see photos below.)
Parade, museums, free food and entertainment - what is not to like? Watched the parade with a 21-year-old young man from Australia who had not been home yet after partying all night - a party animal who happen to be a hospice nurse.
Took a little less than a million photos at the National Gallery of Art. Got the great idea of showing paintings chronologically to students to more viscerally show the transition to industrialization through paintings from the 1840-1920s. Lots of Eakins, Winslow Homer, and Childe Hassam - amongst others, now live happily on my hard drive.
After a visit to the porta-potties, I had nice chat with Valerie, a woman with a 4 year-old daughter, Vicky, living in a DC shelter. She and Vicky are moving to somewhere in Virginia... she is not exactly sure where, Norfolk, or Richmond maybe, only thing for dead sure is she is outta here. She wanted to know who my favorite historian was? Hard question. I thought a moment, then answered Ibn Battuta and we talked about his theory of the cyclical nature of civilizations for a while before we parted with best holiday wishes, and I headed to the Museum of the American Indian.
After viewing the Fritz Scholder exhibit, I stopped into the resource center on the fourth floor and the museum's guy started throwing the most amazingly beautiful posters and curriculum (plural) at me the moment I said the magic words, "8th Grade US History." Heheheheh.
I am definitely going back again tomorrow to see the other exhibits and especially the Skate Jam! Wish I'd brought my board. (Kidding.)
Watched the fireworks display in front of the hotel with Nancy and her two lovelies, Carmen and Isa and about 100 others, including one really loud, enthusiastic lady who was hecka glad Obama is in the White House. She engaged her tiny daughter in a call-and-response performance that went something like this:
- Who our president?
-Obama!
-Where he at?
-The White House!
Oh yes, he in the White House! Oh thank you, Jesus! Say, thank you Jesus!
-Thank you Jesus!
-Alright!
Alright. Goodnight America, I love you.
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