My beautiful Byron,

What a week its been. Not only covid consuming millions, but now we have the sight of right wing government goons attacking protestors who are stepping up to protest racist murder.

Pretty awful, in cities across America as well as around the world. One sector of people, the kind people, concerned by the cruel murder of a black man, George Lloyd, by a racist right wing policeman named Derek Tauvin, gathered to protest racist murder. And, quite illegally, because protest is a legal right in a free democracy, right wing government sent in goons – men in uniforms with no labels on them – which you need to identify right wing goons if they behave badly – to attack people for protesting racist murder. Using tear gas and rubber bullets and batons.

Trump even sent in cavalry – men on horses wearing tear-gas masks – to move protestors so that he could hold up a Bible to show how God was on his side. But what he didn’t do is put gas masks on the horses when he made them run into clouds of tear gas. He is not a thoughtful person and his dreadful decisions have really unpleasant consequences, even for horses.

On the up side, at least we are seeing protest on the streets. That means people are showing they have had enough of this right wing thuggery. And with any luck that will bring about change. Both in America and in the UK, where we also have a right wing goon government.

Racism is a most awful thing. Where the poorest white people validate themselves by using skin color as a criteria to make Black skin people inferior in opportunity to themselves. Unfortunately both Britain and America have an awful dark history, including making dark skin people slaves who could be sold and made to work for free their whole lives for the profit of their owners. It is like a disease whose cause is found in greed. And the bible, that gives them words to prove that Blacks are inferior and ‘born to till the soil.’ Racists are really the worst kind of people. We don’t like them.

I hope you are staying safe from the virus and reading lots of books. Now is a good time to find joy in the things you do.

Miss you,
Love you,
Daddy

LETTERS TO BYRON in chronological order:

The first of the LETTERS TO BYRON:  The PILOT
2nd GRAHAM COY
3rd:  TOM AMLOT
4th:  Thanksgiving day
5th: MICHELLE O’LEARY. The switch Judge
6th : Raining in California
7th: Music
8th: December Rain
9th: Brexit and Greek war
10th: Winnie the Poo
11th: December kayaking
12th: Family law and Mark Zetin
13th: Xmas day 2018
14th: Maria and Anna
15th: New years eve 2018
16th: Your first smile
17th: Your Uncle GEORGE
18th: The Mighty PACIFIC
19th: WEBSTER and Summer HOLIDAY 2019
20th: Breach of Privacy offense
21st: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
22nd: Philotimia
23rd: A short note
24th: MUSIC and KINDNESS
25th: Robin Hood
26th: SRA ethical code
27th: NINE YEARS LATER
28th: Valentines day
29th: EVZONES
30th: Rushing
31st: Quick Note
32nd: Johannesburg 2019
33rd: Still in Johannesburg
34th: More Johannesburg
35th: Last Johannesburg for now
36th: Traveling. Upgrade
37th: Spring
38th: Whales
39th: MEXICO
40th: CABO ST LUCAS
41st: 1 April. Wallace’s Birthday
42nd: SANTA BARBARA
43rd: Short letter
44th: PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
45th: KIRA visits
46th: Goodbye uncle Lazaros
47th: Easter Monday
48th: OJAI Tennis
49th: Short letter
50th: PARENTAL ALIENATION FACTS
51st: Cartagena memory
52nd: NEW RECORD
53rd: Last letter to 9 yo
54th: First letter to 10 yo
55th: D Day – 75 years
56th: LA QUINTA
57th: MASON GRADUATES
58th: DESIDERATA
59th: EARTHQUAKE
60th:  Chris and Golf
61st: Chris visits Byron in London
62nd: SUMMERTIME
63rd: PHYLLIS’ LETTER TO BYRON
64th: GUN CRAZY AMERICANS
65th: MISS YOU
66th: SCRUFFY
67th: Mason leaves for college
68th: ART
69th: Day after 911
70th: PAPOU. CALLING CHRIS
71st: Two Women
72nd: ANOTHER YEAR
73rd: PLANNING CALIFORNIA VISIT 2019
74th: KAYAKING WITH DOLPHINS
75th: M and M
76th: HALLOWEEN 2019
77th FINGER EXERCISE
78th: First late letter
89th: MIAMI
90th: Thanksgiving and the SRA
91st: Dentist
92nd: EDUCATION
93rd: Almost Xmas
94th: Boxing day 2019
95th: 2nd January 2020
96th: 9 January 2020. Liars and Thieves
97th: 16 January. Thursday
98th: 23 Jan. Mystery Thursday visit99th: 30 Jan. Months end
100th: 6 February. 2020. Summer Holiday101st: 13 February. 2020. Family Law
102nd: 20 February. Dogs
103rd: 27 February. The elderly in the desert
104th: 5 March. James Munbys’ talk on family law. And unilateral judgments
105th:  26 March covid19-what-else
106th: 2nd April. British Family law
107th. 9th April. Good news about Covid
108th: 15 April. 2020. Covid Tzar. A good pair of hands
109th:  23 April: Distance Learning
110th: 30 April. A video Letter. Byron Sundays
111th:  7 May. VE Day
112th:  14th May. History Lesson
113th:  21 May. A family birthday
114th: 28th May. Happy Birthday
155th: 4th June. Riots
156th: 11th June. Guessing
157th: 18th June. More Covid
158th:  25th June. Business open from Lockdown
159th: 2nd July. Writing and Cleaning
160th: 9th July. Six years after Scotland
161st: 23 July. Masked Lockdown
162nd: 30 July. Maybe next year?