The Furious Spinner

I had a long post, but the computer or the cosmos ate it. I take it as a sign. So I offer this link for you to peruse: a list of 127 plus countries and the number and percentage of women in world parliaments. Since the world population of human beings is, I believe, about 49% men and 51% women, a fair (and balanced) government would have at least 51% of its congressional/parliamentary seats occupied by women, n'est pas? Since a huge portion of Rwanda's men were butchered a decade ago, their percentage of women sitting down in those chairs should be even higher. Are you surprised at where the U.S. is on this list?

When we were at the Chinese Garden the other day, Mario ate three pecan cookies which rested on a piece of banana leaf, the paper of poor Chinese scholars and poets, apparently. Mario dusted the crumbs off the khaki green leaf, then wrote this poem on it:

Banana Leaves

Music of rain
falling in garden.

The bats live
where light leaks.

Words move
over stone
to still water.

—Mario Milosevic ©2003 0 comments

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