Nursery school in a working class suburb west of Chicago the month Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated: chain link fence separates gravel play yard from multilane highway. Inside, adult women monitor aisles between cots with paddles. They warn they will spank those who do not nap. Army wool blankets: the only remembered color green. Nuance: shades of gray. Child grown recognizes it was a place where locals showed up to do wage-earning jobs on behalf of others who did much the same.
Friday, June 28th, Washington, D.C., 17:55 EDT:
Moon 17° 14′ Taurus quincunx Jupiter Rx exact
Moon sextile North Node 17° 40′, Vertex 17° 29′ Cancer
Sagittarius 2° 43′ rising