Foul mood this May Day....

Perhaps I am in a particularly foul mood this May Day. As I work my way through photos and text for my Digest I keep encountering memories of friends who struggled mightily, who were intelligent, who provided valuable and necessary work, and who were beaten down by the system for one reason or another. We must dissuade ourselves, our politicians, and our culture of the notion that if one works hard, has a good education and is of great benefit to our society, one will succeed, and be well rewarded, and if one doesn’t succeed it because one is lazy, and not willing to work hard, or get an education.

“All these adventures – and there were many – ended
with the ban on gill nets.
I stood at the fish house as the last basket of
mullet was hauled up and tried, like the men around me, not to cry.”.