I've looked at clouds from both sides now

"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs."

 -Daniel J Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1 Oct 1914-2004) 

For Skywatch Friday...

June 13, 2022 taken near Sylva, NC

June 25 being renovated...downtown Black Mountain NC

May 7, downtown Black Mountain

June 15 lunar eclipse...which my phone camera couldn't capture!

Then there were delightful clouds on July 4 around 9:00 pm...before fireworks for which I was already inside and didn't try to see.

My panorama of the neighborhood...maybe a super car in the foreground!

On the Supreme Court decision of June 24, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the Supreme Court denied women the constitutional liberty to control their reproductive choices, there's been recent a Pew Survey showing how much support it really has. See Pew Research Center, Majority in U.S. Disapprove of Supreme Court Abortion Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade.

One chart in the Pew survey shows that 50% or more of the following groups oppose the ruling in Dobbs: Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics; every age group from 18 to 65+; every educational level from “some high school” to postgraduate; Catholics, non-evangelical white Protestants, and Black Protestants; and married and unmarried people. The only demographic group that favors Dobbs by more than 50% is white evangelical Christians.

And the leading law firms in America? 

Many of America’s elite law firms looked the other way as their male partners lobbied to rescind the constitutional rights of their women partners. The women partners in those firms are now speaking in unison to defend the rights of all women. More than 2,500 women partners in major law firms have signed a call to action. See The American Lawyer, More Than 2,650 Women Partners From 190 Firms Issue Call to Action Post-'Dobbs'.

The statement reads, in part,

          We swore oaths to support and defend the Constitution. We take that oath seriously. We know that our ability to serve in the legal profession and swear that oath was hard fought and rests fundamentally on the premise and promise that we, as women and people who have or had the potential to become pregnant, are free and equal citizens under the law. 

          The Court has failed to uphold the promise at the very core of the Constitution: the promise of liberty and dispassionate, fair and equal treatment for all under law.

        We cannot let that failure stand.

These quotes are from a newsletter by Robert Hubble which I just had recommended to me by a very astute and active promoter of the ERA, my friend Roberta Madden. Just thought I'd share these comments here.