Opinion
We started off early this morning, to get our long awaited flu shots which were scheduled from 8 a.m. until noon. This had been on our calendar for weeks, during which time we tried not to get a cold, or anything else that could prevent our being there for it. We were rude to our friends; if they so much as sneezed we said go away.
Appropriate Scale
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Sen. Robert O’Leary and Rep. Timothy Madden:
I appreciate the opportunity to meet with both of you over the past few weeks to discuss the draft oceans plan. As we discussed, through this planning process, the commonwealth is setting the pace for marine spatial planning at a national level.
Sooner or later we’ll kick the bucket, buy the farm, push up the daisies, be hauled away in wooden pajamas or whatever. While waiting, there is a free service you just may want to consult, and then again you may not. Developed a decade or so ago, the original now has a number of rivals. Named The Death Clock or something similar, all are easily located on the Internet and each will project day, month and year of — your death!
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
Editors, The Vineyard Gazette:
The report of the Chilmark selectmen’s meeting in the Nov. 6 Gazette should have been titled “Reporter’s Errors and Omissions.” This story supposedly focused on my request that the selectmen reconsider their decision for the training rather than the removal of the dog that killed our little Yorkie.
I’ve spent at least a portion of the last 47 summers with my family in a gingerbread cottage in the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs. The boulder at the rear entrance to the Tabernacle reads, “Surely God is in this place.” I cannot speak for God but it seems that my late grandfather’s spirit is still singing loud in the Sunday chorus and present at that most dreaded childhood event — the Camp Meeting Association potluck.
In an op-ed that appeared in this newspaper last week Timothy Holmes strangely stated: “The promoters and supporters of the Cape Wind project are about to perform the equivalent of loading 34,000 General Motors 2005 Hummers into Nantucket Sound.”