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Easter memories

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 Palm Harbor memories   I grew up (until age twelve) in Palm Harbor. At some point, the town was planned to be more grand than it turned out to be. There were parts of the town that had curbs and palm trees planted as a planned project. But it failed (or never actually came about) in any event, there was a meager downtown. The road had a hill that sloped down through town and ended at 19A. At the top of the hill, you could see the gulf of Mexico in the distance.    I mention all of this to set up that the town used to come together to put on an Easter sunrise service and the crosses were placed on that hill. The entire town in various ways participated. The person who played Jesus was always a guarded secret but there were children who participated and elders all in costume. They borrowed a donkey for this production (entering the city on a donkey with people waving palms) and people took turns keeping it during this production  (practice and such. I think our f...
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a Summer of Soul

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 The recent movie," A Summer of Soul", up for an academy award this year prompted this post and a beginning of a sort of history in selected images from my life.    When I was a young child, I lived in a small town in Florida that was racially segregated. We, in fact, had no people of color living in the town at all. This was a time when desegregation was a large issue, especially in the South, and so, when I was in 5th grade, our school got two black teachers as the beginning of desegregation and then when I was in the 6th grade we actually got a few students bussed from a neighboring town (and the projects) to our school.    When I was a child, my mother was extremely active in a church that was technically a 1st Christian church, but was a bit more active in "soul winning" than most.  My father did not attend at all. Every Sunday morning, Sunday nights and Wednesday night my Mom would load us and anyone else she could find into her station wagon for inte...
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