Instead of Writing About the History of Our National Economic Stupidities

Which are making my head hurt as we are repeating, in a different way, but to a degree, for some of the same reasons.  We are preparing an economic catastrophe that will rival the one of 1837 caused by Andrew Jackson and his cronies.*  We didn't really pull out of that one until the War with Mexico 1846 - 1848, followed almost immediately thereafter by the discovery at Sutter's Mill.

The suffering was so great that the entire nation -- at least up north -- experienced serious public disorder and unrest.  This is why you see the northern cities ** establishing in the early 1840's their first official police forces, to cope with the violence and anger in the streets (due to no jobs, no credit, no money, no food, no shelter).

No, I'm not writing about this today, despite the stack brilliant books on the subject I'm re-visiting this week.  My head hurts enough as it is from this blasted cold.

Instead I think about this: Yesterday the Canadian geese arrived for the annual winter on the Chester River.

Last night the Chestertown osprey pair lifted wing along the Chester River moonpath, the start of their journey to their winter grounds in Venezuela.

Kent County is gold with harvest -- great gleaning for the geese!

Last night we mooned our way home in a musical cloud after an extraordinary night of latin jazz at the Jazz Standard, where we bought drinks from a beautiful tourist who works in the Hague and loves jazz, and for a beautiful African American who loves jazz and is having love troubles. None of us had met before.

Nor had the moon fully fattened last night, which it will do tonight.

Additionally, let us think of -- possets as colder weather slinks around the balmy present days of summer's end. Reason #109 for reading newspapers outside one's own region: this article from the online  UK Guardian on the history of possets, what they were, what they are now, and how to make them.

Delft Posset Pot circa 1720

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* Andrew Jackson was perhaps even more ignorant about the necessity and function of banks in a national economy than Che Guevara, which is saying an enormous amount.

** The history of police forces in the south differs substantially from that in other regions of the U.S. For one thing, due to slavery and the militias and patrols that had been in place since the colonial eras, the slaveholding states were virtually police states, which they remained, at least for people of color for decades after the Civil War.