[Magdalen] Congressional Inaugural "Sick-out".

[Ann Markle]

I won't be watching. It's all I can do to stand the preparations today. It
just makes me sick. Today I start with my eyes closed, hands over my ears,
singing, "La, la, la." It's going to be a long four years.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:36 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> I know the number's over 50 by now, and I'm only mostly certain they're
> all Dems.  But be that as it may....
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> I honestly disagree with the boycott.  I fully understand it; I just don't
> wholly agree with it.  Being a sucker for being "part of history", even if
> only via the TV screen and couch-elevated sore feet, I'd give my eye teeth
> to be there in person.  And these boycotters would have prime seats, no
> less.
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> And to show how much I respect and revere the office if not the
> office-holder as such (though he does have my "basic respect as a fellow
> human being", as I tell Everett), I honestly fear for him (and his wife;
> will she be there? I honestly don't recall any direct mention recently to
> her being present) and as much as it galls me, I can't wait till he's
> safely Oval-ed and on his hopefully only four-year journey (or less; hey,
> it's possible).  Why?  Security at these things is the best there is, ...
> but nothing's perfect.  From the moment tomorrow's affair started sinking
> in as something I was going to take a vacation day to be home for, two
> words began floating around in my head, banished as often as possible to
> the farthest reaches because the thought is just too crazy-making in its
> essence... :  "Book Depository".
>
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>
> Dear God, keep everybody safe.
>
> --
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY