1. Everett was alert more often today than yesterday. Christy spent much of the day with him. He slept quite a bit, but, when he was awake, he was pretty comfortable and was clear headed. He and Christy had conversations. Everett made it clear how much he enjoys Christy's company and appreciates her devotion to his comfort. I can't emphasize enough how good it is that Everett is in Kellogg, Christy is so close by, and that she is allowed to spend so much time with him.
2. Gonzaga's game with Auburn, played at Fort Meyers, FL, featured an 8 a.m. (PST) tipoff. Auburn is a young team with a lot of talent, but raw. The more experienced Zags had little trouble establishing themselves as the superior team, weathered Auburn's barrage of three point shots, and waltzed to a 90-67 victory. Auburn had no answer for Drew Timme who scored 28 points nor for Corey Kisbert who knocked down 25.
3. I fixed myself a couscous, spinach, green bean, and salmon bowl for dinner and, early in the evening, and I watched the last two hours of the PBS documentary series, Reconstruction. At the same time that Reconstruction was sobering and terrifying, especially its chronicling of the history of terrorism and lynching, it was inspiring to see Black leaders confront the cruelty, confront the awful insistence that, as Black people, African-Americans were, by nature, inferior and created by God to be subservient to white people. Intellectuals, artists, and especially photographers countered the white propaganda depicting Black people as stupid, lazy, savage, bumbling, ill-formed, and predatory (climaxed in the movie Birth of a Nation) with photographic images, essays, stories, poems, publications, original music, and other forms of expression that countered the propaganda and emphasized the dignity and intellectual and artistic abilities of African-Americans.
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