Up at 5 to bake

PRIVATE BEACH

We are going to make hummus today so I put some chickpea flour in the skillet bread.

Clearer picture of chapters of AN OKIE'S RACIAL RECKONINGS

I wrote AN OKIE'S RACIAL RECKONINGS without printing more than 3 or 4 pages. If you print them all it looks like a real book manuscript.

The sculpted dunes with new alley-ways

Today, a stretch of carved dunes

More carving of the dunes

Yesterday--the Dunes Carved Down

After the latest carving

AN OKIE'S RACIAL RECKONINGS--Chapters now printed--Pile looks like a book. All done after the murder of George Floyd.

In the Washington Post 22 November 2021 Ken Burns says: "Being an American means reckoning with a history fraught with violence and injustice. Ignoring that reality in favor of mythology is not only wrong but also dangerous. The dark chapters of American history have just as much to teach us, if not more, than the glorious ones, and often the two are intertwined.” Yes, yes! Table of Contents of "An Okie's Racial Reckonings" #01 “GODDAMN OKIES”--HOW GRAPES OF WRATH DEFINED OKLAHOMANS #02 WHO THE OKIES WERE--THE EASTERN OKLAHOMANS, WHITE, RED, AND BLACK, WHOSE FAMILIES HAD BEEN THERE IN THE CHOCTAW NATION AND THE CHEROKEE NATION #03 RETRIEVAL OF FAMILY STORIES--THEN START OF RACIAL RECKONINGS #04 COUSINS AT WAR AGAINST THE CHEROKEES --WHAT THE CAROLINIANS INSTEAD OF MARCHING OFF NORTH #05 THE ERRATIC INDIAN POLICY OF COUSIN JEFFERSON IN ORDERING SOLDIERS TO DESTROY THE SIMS SETTLEMENT #06 AT TRAP HILL, PARTIAL OBLIVIOUSNESS TO RACE #07 BRIGHAM YOUNG’S UTAH: POLYGAMY, ROUTINE MURDERS, AND MASSACRES , BLAMING THOSE BLOODTHIRSTY INDIANS #08 MORMON POLITICS--SLAUGHTERING FOR PARLEY, BRIGHAM, AND JESUS, BUT SAVING SOME BABIES FOR RANSOM #09 JESSE SPARKS--A INDIAN-FIGHTER TEXAS COUSIN FALSELY ACCUSED OF ATROCITY TO BLACKS #10 MILTON SIMS--WEALTHY TEXAN CONDEMNED TO BE HANGED AFTER A YANKEE OFFICIAL’S LIES #11 FLETCHER HILL & FRATERNITY--1864 ESCAPE FROM REBEL PRISON WITH HELP FROM BLACKS AND RED STRINGERS #12 CAPT. MATTHEWS—FREEDMEN'S BUREAU MAN WHOSE LIES ABOUT A COUSIN BECAME AMERICAN HISTORY #13 TOURGEE VS MCGEHEE-- HOW A COUSIN GAINED AMNESTY FOR ALL KKK CRIMES IN NORTH CAROLINA #14 WILLY SIMS & THE DANVILLE “MASSACRE" OR "STREET-FIGHT”--A RECKLESS COUSIN WHO MAY HAVE CAUSED THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION IN VIRGINIA #15 DICK COSTNER’S GALLANTRY AT WOUNDED KNEE---SEN. WARREN IS RIGHT, BUT DICK WAS TRULY GALLANT) #16 THE GLENN-TUCKER LAWSUIT--MY FAMILY’S LOSING FIGHT AGAINST CHOCTAW AND FEDERAL CORRUPTION #17 LEE SPARKS--ONE BAD COP --THE WHITE HOUSTON THUG WHO INCITED AND DOOMED THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS IN 1917 #18 DOVEY--BLACK COSTNERS--HORRIFIC STORY OF BLACK FAMILY IN DISPLACEMENT AND REPLACEMENT APPENDIX--FAMILY DOCUMENTS--DISPOSITION OF SLAVES IN WILLS, ADVTS FOR RUNAWAYS, SALE AND AUCTION ADVTS FOR SLAVES, &C.

Yesterday at the beach--not a jolly playmate in sight

Sewage warning

The dunes being washed away

Tuesday I wore an anorak and a beanie under the hood. As I finished, there was a rainbow. I had to shoot through rain.

No one else was foolish enough to be on the beach. Actually, I was in the dunes

on the way to Duck Creek and in the water on the way back. I was soaked but happy.

Skillet Bread this morning

Picture taken in rain and wind

Redesiged entrance to Parking Lot

As I finished by surf-chased rain-slashed struggle to Duck Creek and back. Anorak but I was soaked, and I got this shot

Beach

More carving of dunes

After the last storm

More beach

More of what's left of the Dunes

Carved Dunes

Dunes being carved away

Dunes being carved away