Sunday at the heights cafe

nice time at the cafe; Annie, as usual, very gracious and talkative; everyone else quite friendly--glad I pushed myself to go there---a good idea.
Ah, Brooklyn, again, one more time---beautiful day----I guess made more beautiful because of the scratch off $15.00 that I won this morning. Good article by Frank Rich in today's News of the Week in Review; he blames everyone for their passivity---a malaise, partially caused because by not instituting a draft to fight the war in Iraq, Bush separates the mainstream of people, whether they be liberal or conservative or in between; they are free to go about their business, whatever that is, capable of tuning in and out the war as they wish. This is true, but My question to Mr. Rich would be: then what? If one allowed oneself to feel the pain of the war and the frightening hijacking of the democratic process by the Bush administration (though what about previous ones) how should one ACT? What should one do? And yet as I write this, I hunger for the outside world, a world where the Iraq war is pushed into the background.