![[frost]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/img_20161225_082007.jpg)
Not of people eating and drinking and having fun, although
there was a lot of that. When that was happening, I was eating
and drinking and having fun, too. But I walked the dog on Christmas
morning, and this was the frost on the strawberry leaves in my
sister’s front yard.
![[swans]](https://parrartist.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/the-swan-copy.jpg?w=512)
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. But only if enough people let me know by
Monday night that they want to come.
Our party will be on January 1, 2017, starting at 4pm, at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.
Please invite all your friends. I have printed invitations you
can give them on my
blog.
![[Allet]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/allet.jpg?w=840)
Our party this year will be on January 1, 2017, starting at 4pm
at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.
Come, and tell everybody you know to bring everybody they
know.
It will be particularly good if people who might be interested
in singing with us on Tuesdays could be invited.
The one that folds in 4 to carry in your pocket, and
look something like a Christmas card.
The
one that’s letterpaper sized, and has the flyer on the back.
![[Pickwicks]](https://i0.wp.com/gutenberg.readingroo.ms/5/8/580/580-h/images/20498m.jpg)
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.
Our annual party will take place on Sunday, January 1, starting
at 4pm. I will be sending pointers to hard copy invitations
soon. In the meanwhile, please invite your friends, especially
anyone who might be interested in joining us on Tuesdays.
Let me know if you can come, and if you’d like to contribute to
the food and drink.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.
We played:
![[Partiers]](https://i0.wp.com/www.mountaindulcimer-1-3-5.com/web-wassail.gif)
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.
The annual Cantabile Christmas party will be on January 1,
2017. We will get started at about 4 pm. Please come and invite
your friends. Bring food, drink, music if you have something
you’d like to do, instruments, and especially voices. Printable
invitations will appear shortly.
The West
Gallery Quire Pub Carol
Sing will be this Sunday, December 4 from 2-5 pm at Doyle’s
Cafe in Jamaica Plain.
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All Morley all the time:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge, as long as enough people have told me by
Monday night that they want to come.
![[voter intimidation]](https://i0.wp.com/4745-presscdn-0-74.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Voter-intimidation-Louisiana-1892.-Cartoon-from-the-New-Orleans-22Mascot22.-300x237.jpg)
My first reaction on seeing that Trump had won was to say, “Oh,
no. The wrong people just did what I’ve been telling people to
do for decades.”
I have always thought that the way to really fix the current
(before last Tuesday) broken system was to find some way to
energize the 35-50 percent of the voters who don’t bother to vote
even in a presidential election, and the 60-80 percent who don’t
vote in other elections, and the large percentage who aren’t even
registered. And I thought that might account for the Trump
victory, since one of the issues with polling is that the
pollsters are
making a wild guess about who is a “likely voter”.
But it looks like that is probably not what happened. Trump
won with fewer votes than his opponent, and also with fewer votes
than either Mitt Romney or John McCain, who both lost to
President Obama.
A certain amount of coverage of this fact has blamed voter
indifference to both candidates, and also the people who opposed
Trump and decided to express it by a vote for a third-party candidate.
But it seems to me that we should also be looking at whether it
represents a victory for the Republican strategy of limiting
participation by minorities in the election process. They’ve had
pretty much carte-blanche since the Supreme Court removed the
federal oversight of southern states under the 60’s civil rights
legislation, and there are a lot of stories about requiring id’s
and then making it very difficult for people in minority areas to
get the id’s.
I have friends who live in South Carolina in a
largely black area and typically have to wait in line for three
hours to vote. A three hour wait is not only very difficult for
someone with a job and/or a family, it is also an invitation for
“observers” to engage in subtle or not-so-subtle intimidation,
which would be difficult to police even with the best intentions
of the election officials.
So going forward, we should be working very hard to oppose both
laws which have the effect of suppressing turnout, and
implementations of perfectly reasonable laws which make voting
difficult.
Predictions about what will happen in a Trump administration, by the author of a book about the Putin takeover.
![[protesters]](http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/love-trumps-hate.jpg)
Source: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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