Felix Enters the World of Politics

I had planned a post-election post, but then... well things happen, or don't happen. Anyway, my intention with this blog is and has been for it be about Felix exclusively. Well, I guess I can't say that as Renae started the blog. I can say for my part, I try to keep this free of items that don't directly pertain to Felix, so I did grapple with posting anything regarding the election. But this election will affect Felix as the president-elect will be a very different president than the current tragic failure. Obama will be replacing a president who once bragged that he ran against peace and prosperity and won. That win gave W a mandate to deliver us from peace and prosperity, I guess. Mission Accomplished. In the wake of his disastrous tenure, Bush and his neocon ideology leaves America (including my son) two unresolved failing wars, the magic trick of turning the largest budget surplus into the largest budget deficit, the worst financial crisis since the 30's, a massive expansion of the national debt, a massive wealth redistribution that has created a wealth gap that rivals that of the Gilded Age, an impending depression, and Al Qaida stronger than before his presidency. It is an extraordinary legacy, one that all of us and, most importantly to this blog, my son will have to pay for.
On election day, Californians narrowly passed the bigoted Proposition 8. In what is surely just a coincidence, California is now on fire. Last Saturday, in cities across America, rallies and marches took place to protest that decision. We picked Natalie up from her party house in the U district and took her and Tru to Seattle's rally at Volunteer Park where an estimated 6,000 people partook. The march that followed would have been a little too much for Felix so we walked over to the playground. On the way Felix found a very special stick that he put in his back pocket. After about an hour or so of play and 1/2 mile walk back to the car, Felix realized he no longer had his stick. He was very upset and explained to us that the stick was "very important to me". Some of you may remember a post from about a year ago (Nov. 2007) that Felix assigns a back-story to sticks he has found; so we knew how important it was to him. We drove back to the playground- the playground surrounded by trees, in fall- and with Natalie's assistance, Tru found his stick.

On a lighter note, Renae got this idea to blow up pictures we took on our 2003 trip to Europe and frame them. While laying them out Felix came by and saw a blow up of a portrait type picture of Renae and me taken on a water taxi in Venice. He snatched it up, walked out of the family room, and said "I'm gonna hang this in my room". This is a picture of him slumbering soundly under that picture.