27th September 2002
You know, things are just too serious not to have fun on a regular basis. Going to Disneyland is like using a giant roto-rooter on my heart. I love watching children – eyes wide, jaws dropped to the ground – stunned by the simple proximity of this huge dog, Pluto waving “Hello!” There are the high-speed thrill rides… particularly a new one called “California Screamin'” that seized me and made me ride it four times. The beginning of the ride features a catapult that rockets passengers in little cars 60 miles an hour in about three seconds, up an incline and then over and around and through twists and turns – a spiral where you’re upside-down, and on and on. Lovely. I felt completely relaxed when I climbed out of the car. Wobbly, but relaxed.
I wish for each of us as much joy and delight as possible even as we commit ourselves to doing whatever we can every day to resist the state-sponsored war on our civil liberties and on the peoples of the Middle East.
Onward and Outward!
