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<\/a>Meditators in Central Park along the march route. Sign reads “Earth Vigil”<\/p><\/div>\n
Two ironies:<\/p>\n
On the subway going home I sat opposite two women who had a shopping cart loaded with copies of the newspaper of a far-left political party. Open-heartedness evaporated, self-righteousness surfaced: my first thought was \u201cHah! Glad they couldn\u2019t get rid of all those papers.\u201d I avoided eye contact so as not to have a paper shoved at me and be proselytized. But as I got up at my stop they called out to me. I pretended not to hear but they persisted so I finally looked at them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat brand are your shoes?\u201d one called out.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeens,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, we thought so,\u201d she exclaimed, and pointed to her friend\u2019s feet, sporting Keens in a different style. There would have been some shoe discussion, but I had to get off before the doors closed. So, a lesson in finding commonality even with hard-line Communists.<\/p>\n
Then I came home and learned that a friend in California was standing by ready to be evacuated because the roaring King fire was blasting its way toward her house through a forest dry as tinder due to the long drought there. A nervous few days, until the wind cooperated and the thousands of firefighters controlled the blaze. I marched, but she suffered.<\/p>\n
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