Today is the Jewish New Year. My mother and daughter were born on the 26th.

John

One more for the trail. Today is Roh Hashanah. The Day of Atonement will fall on October 4th. Seven years ago I talked to a woman rabbi, the first to be appointed in Oregon. My ex-fiancé’s family – made France. They owned the Louisiana Territory that Thomas Jefferson regretted buying. He never meant for our Democracy to expand beyond the thirteen States. I don’t think he was happy about slaves not being freed, and women not getting the vote. My fiancés family were members of the Vichy Government. I asked the rabbi about the guilt this family carries. She asked me if Virginia was personally responsible for the death of Jews? She wasn’t born. “Then she is without sin and guilt.”. After Virginnia got down on one knee and proposed marriage, I took her…