{"id":3125,"date":"2026-02-11T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:08:51","slug":"minnesota-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"MINNESOTA FOREVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am so proud to be from Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have lived 50 of last nearly 60 years in SE Como, best neighborhood ever, after having a best-ever childhood in Wahpeton ND.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then Trump\u2019s Thugs invaded gentle Minneapolis,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the gentle bear rose up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bruce Springsteen nails it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDaPdpwA4Iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am going to use Bruce Springsteen singing &#8220;The Streets of Minneapolis for my\u00a0 February\u00a0 Poetry Club choice of &#8220;reading&#8221;.\u00a0 Our theme is &#8220;love&#8221;.\u00a0 A choice doesn&#8217;t get more apt.\u00a0 Now I just need to have Charlie figure out how to get a YouTube video from his laptop to the big screen in the room where the Poetry Club meets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU GO, MINNEAPOLIS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t march, roll, or ride with my Minneapolis friends (though I am there in vigorous spirit), but I can wear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/30\/style\/minnesota-ice-red-hats-knit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlA.jUqj.jEeQWV35i8Rg&amp;smid=url-share\">my knitted red hat<\/a>, buy great bagels from Backyard Bagels, a small business here, who, with family ties there, is supporting small businesses in Minneapolis, and who, every Sunday, has a (nearby) Ballard Street Market stand, propitiously placed, so that it is almost unlikely I will run over the wagging tails of patiently waiting dogs.\u00a0 Free-range kids are another hazard altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3126\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3126\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3126\" src=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260208_203549000-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With red, knitted protest hat and support bagels in hand, I am one with the aroused bear.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So\u00a0 Charlie and I strolled and rolled, and mostly averted disasters, except for a few sidewalk gullies, bought some bagels, thanked the people in the booth, and went back home to enjoy the whole experience and follow the latest news of the community that is\u00a0 Minneapolis showing the world how it&#8217;s done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And thanks, Vikings!\u00a0 With Sam Darland, Seahawks are World Series champs. 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