The Exalted Cyclops roams the Emerald Valley. There will be no peace until the South has risen……again! “A Kentucky native, Breckinridge believed that slavery should be constitutionally protected and that Southern states had the right to secede. His running mate, Joseph Lane, represented the Oregon Territory in the United States House of Representatives and also approved of the expansion of slavery into the territories. Breckinridge and Lane won most of the slave states, but finished a close second in Virginia, where the presidential election was the closest in its history. The vote totals published in theDaily Richmond Enquirer on December 24, 1860, show that John C. Breckinridge received 74,379 votes
A year ago I bought a eyeball that lights up in order to get the kids at the family campground involved in a fantasy game. With no T’V or computer, they were bored out of their wits! At a nearby yard sale, I bought an old loggers axe, and put it in the water. I told the children it belonged to the blind Cyclops who is in the woods looking for his lost eye so he can find his lost magical axe. This play went on most of the day. I promised the kids pieces of the moon are going to land in the forest during the partial eclipse. Some parents mocked me. One demanded I tell her child I was making it all up. This mother demanded I confess to the children there is no such thing as magic. Then, one of the older boys found it, in the woods, where he went to take…
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