The Writer's Life 6/13 - Yankee Ingenuity

While the summit yielded encouraging results, it is silly to draw any conclusions at this stage. This will be an ongoing process. Even if it gets to a finalization point, the consequences are not likely to be apparent for years. The event is a microcosm of Trump's presidency so far - filled with hope for those of us who approve of his policies. He still shows no signs of becoming a politician, and I believe that was what we wanted.

A blurb in today's NY Post reports that there was an all-time record on charitable giving in the USA in 2017. It was up 5.2% from the previous year, topping the $400 billion mark for the first time, coming in at $410 billion. With so much money flowing around, let's hope it's another positive sign for the economy.

Guess what this is:

It's a paper plane made by folks in Fitchburg, Mass., who are trying to get the Guinness Book of World Records to recognize it in a new category. 5000 people throughout New England worked on it. It weighs a ton and has not been flown. An 800-pounder created by a 12-year-old in 2012 was hoisted by a helicopter and released, and it flew for ten seconds. Here's another. The guy attached a motor to it and it flew beautifully.

And here's a two-minute video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUuTvERSpWA

The scaffold saved the day once again, keeping out the light rain, allowing the floating book shop to operate. My thanks to the woman who purchased a Mary Higgins Clark thriller, and to the gentleman who bought White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement by Allan J. Lichtman; and to the one who donated three outstanding, pristine hardcover titles on baseball; and to the other who donated several books in Russian and pictorials on rare coins, Fabergé and Picasso.

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