In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Doei! (pronounced "do-we")
By Janet Evans
Friday, Aug 1 2008, 07:17 AM
Remember the story about the Dutch boy who finds a leak in thedyke in Holland. He sticks his finger in the hole to stop the leak. He becomes the hero of the town.
Trouble was...that story everyone thought may have been true all those years was fiction by the author of Hans Brinker and The Silver Skates, Mary Mapes Dodge. And if you asked an engineer, you would probably be told plugging a hole in a dykewith your finger just wouldn't have worked.
Well, it's been leaked that our Dutch hero, Ted Grintjes, may be stepping down from the 27th Street Steering Committee. The question will be why? And for the answer we may have to pretend we have an onion and keep peeling back layer upon layer. We may find, just like the Dutch boy plugging the leak...there may not be a hero in this story. Not like everyone makes him out to be. But that remains to be seen.
So for now, even though it's unofficial...I'll say Doei to Ted Grintjes. That's Goodbye, in Dutch. I'm sure I'll see you around at Common Council meetings.
The statue of the boy with the finger in thedyke at Spaarndam, also known as Hans Brinker
