Back in the '97 time frame I read that
"When you
drive north on the I-5 freeway from California into Oregon the first
thing you see is a
sign that says "KEEP OREGON GREEN!"
I've never set foot in Oregon. I don't
know what the place means to you.
That coin was issued as a quarter by the mint about a year ago now.
Pondering the idea of connection, please consider that the guy who is
credited for inventing the internet was Vice President when the guy
from Hope, Arkansas was President of the USA. I've never seen one of
these coins in circulation. When the state quarters were the new thing
there were some of those around, and it was a fun thing to show them to
people. Now it's like the whole country has turned its back on change.
What a coincidence, that's a metaphor for denial.
I got this coin at the
California Bank & Trust on El Camino Real at
Castro Street in Mountain View. I got five of them for a paper Lincoln.
Hadn't seen this kind of Presidential dollar coin before that.
This is what I call
"mailing Maryland
to Georgia." Anybody can do it. Change has nothing to do with that.
As a tax
protester, I earned less than it takes to have to file with the IRS
last year. I do that most years, because I want my nonparticipation in
a corrupt system to be transparent and legal. I find this gives me
plenty of time for my imagination to roam. Luckily California sets the
bar even higher than Uncle Sam. That means I don't have to file with
them either.
The conspiracy
theorist in me is hoping we compost long after the glacier is gone from
Glacier National Park in Montana.
