Week 27 - emily - birthday or funeral?

› what if?‹ what if? "what if we attempted to repair and build something new?" 1776 pluto return 2020-2028 a continuation... "Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community, where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.” -Georges Erasmus july 4th is a day historically full of paradoxes in the U.S.: the dilemma of the 4th of july "As a nation, the United States of America does not share a common memory, and therefore struggles to have a true community." -Mark Charles frederick douglass decendants read his 4th of july speech "Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions!" -Frederick Douglass supreme court immunity decision the week of july 4, 2024 "we're in the problem, because the rule of law, law and order underpins our entire system, the idea that everybody should be treated equally in the courts. The Supreme Court just ripped that up...This isn't an adjustment in the law. This is a change in our entire constitutional system. It says that there is one of the three branches of government that cannot be checked by the other two..." -Heather Cox Richardson air force major arrested on capitol steps during protest the week of july 4, 2026 “When the President of the United States orders military action against foreign countries absent an emergency scenario where American interests are under imminent dire threat, as was done with Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, that’s an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s authority and a violation of the War Powers Clause...” -U.S.A.F. Maj. Jason Watson everything back | everything forward "financial wealth cannot replace the necessities of life. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted, money cannot make our hunger go away..." *made with garageband loops + a bugle sample of 'taps' performed by Sergeant Codie Lynn Williams of Dallas, ceremonial bugler for Marine Barracks Washington, on a Soprano bugle in G, as typically performed in the U.S. military - public domain **when i wrote this track and titled it with some dark humor in reference to the 250th birthday of the USA - i had no idea there would be a funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei begining on the 4th of july - yet another paradox... 2026 Copyright All rights reserved