What is interesting is the difference between attitudes there and here. Your optimism should be a beacon to follow. Here, most folk are down, me included. My business is down 50% this month and severe economies are in progress (though I’m still cooking with olive oil ) as I brace for even worse to come. I don’t think many have the faith that our politicians can get us out – indeed many are terrified at the level of debt Brown seems willing to take on. I am in that group. They see the answer in more of what got us in the shit to start with. A correction has to correct. They want the status quo.

An excellent interview, though I shuddered why Eyglo actually said she was glad it had happened, without qualifying it. I know what she meant, but a lot of folk have lost a lot of money in the debacle and I wish she had just made that acknowledgement. A pleasure to hear your voice – and yes, I noticed the Scottish inflection too!!

Was there another demonstration today?

I signed already.

Can’t seem to be able to listen to your presentation, doesn’t work on my Mac’s Firefox, Safari nor Opera Will try Chrome on the work computer tomorrow.

Marc – actually people have been telling me for years (even when I lived in Canada) that I had a slight Scottish inflection. I have no idea where it comes from – and as a result I don’t think I can take credit for your last complement!

Very nice radio broadcast. Taught me something about Icelandic history too. Hmm. Do you know you have a tendency to pick up your conversation partner’s accent? You sort of moved toward the Scottish inflection in this interview. Only people with a very good feeling for language have that.

All the best.

Marc

I loved your gorgeous recent photos, too. It’s great that you’re still able to detach yourself from the economic/political debacle and do purely creative things. I’ve been unable to write poetry, listen to music with sustained interest, act in a play or, for that matter, draw a truly relaxed breath, since Shrub and His Thugs took power here and began committing the ever-greater horrors they’re still getting away with. Beauty became irrelevant, compared to straining against all that.

As for the petition, I’d sign in a heartbeat if Icelandic, but then you already know where I stand on the IMF/World Bank thugs and their enablers.

Conditions continue to worsen daily in the States, for all but the oligarchs. No doubt a larger percentage of our populace is actually suffering than of yours, although this won’t be true for long, if the IMF gets hooks into you, privatizes everything in sight and forbids social spending.

Warm good wishes from New Mexico, where it’s colder than usual (about 40 degrees F) under bright turquoise skies and the air is still after wild gales yesterday,
Erin