Pilgrim in America

Thanksgiving dinner in Eugene. Driving with Randy, Julie and Charlie. It was raining and there was a traffic jam on I5, we had to take another road. Julie told me about her work. When someone noticed there was something wrong with his neighbor he called and she went to check up on the person. If he seemed too deranged she recommended his treatment. It was the same in communist system. Only, they sometimes recommended the treatment of completely sane people. Artists for example, whose ideals seemed to be disturbing for the regime.

Our hosts: Nancy is a teacher, Will psychologist and musician. They have two young daughters and there are two more guests: a woman and a dentist. We chatted before dinner. Everyone has ideas about religion and spiritual issues, it is a pleasure to listen. Philosophy of Japanese symbols (older daughter learns Japanese for 10 years now). Wondering why vampire movies became so popular. The dentist turns out to be an aspiring philosopher...

Dinner is ready, we take our dishes to the kitchen. Nancy reads Obama's message on the laptop. After dinner talk: Nancy about teaching, one of her daughters about her work, and Randy about an interesting show on TV. Following this, for a while we have arguments on how statistically impossible things can statistically be proved possible. And watch a new craze: flash-mob, on the lap-top.