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 Sitting at the Spiller Park cafe in Atlanta on this fine sunny day, soaking up the cold weather while I can. (Cold - in the 19s C, 60s F.)

It’s the day after Jimmy Carter passed away at age 100, our last president who was also a deeply good man. A friend of mine discussed working with him for Habitat for Humanity when Carter was 93 — he was still moving and using the saw for cutting wood and building, and showed up every morning to lead a prayer for the day at breakfast.

I had an odd experience — driving into Georgia yesterday before I’d heard about Carter’s death, I said to my husband, “Whichever Democrat officiates his impending funeral better be a firebrand and tie our party together.” Then I checked the internet 30 minutes later and said, “CRAP i hope my words didn’t will this to happen, somehow!”

Fandom matters: I hope to spend the rest of vacation writing, once I get back home! I have a few ideas, and want to get work done on my WIPs. 

Also I can’t wait for reposting my Yuletide fic — I got good comments on it from authors I’ve followed for a while, and am excited to reply to them. :D

Comments

[saelind]

Oh, how cool that your friend got to work with him! Truly one of the only good statesmen of the last century.

Can't wait to see what you did for Yuletide!

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It was a lovely story about Carter, and I know his memory is going to live on…

YULETIDE. The number of authors I’ve been following for a while that commented on my fic is truly interesting; this is only the second time I’ve done a fic exchange and it’s fun how widely read it all gets! I’ll post it here tomorrow after author reveal.

[bunn]

Can you explain the funeral officiating thing? I am too distant to all of this to understand without a basic primer :-D

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I am not even sure there will be a person who gives a politically oriented speech, or if a former president will chime in — Carter was a southern baptist and I think they cleave pretty closely to the church service.

I was honestly just speculating that SOMEONE in the Democratic Party should use Carter’s example as a rallying point, but … don’t think it’ll happen, heh.