Wednesday early in the evening was a public meeting for the Tacoma Green Ribbon Climate Action Task Force - at the end we were to distribute our five dots (labels) near the kinds of ideas we like best - e.g.: mandate an anti-idling ordinance this year - Monday evening was a discussion by three writers about the novel by Tim O"Brien, The Things They Carried - Peter Bacho, Brent Hartinger, and Mark Lindquist on a panel. Several people asked questions. I asked Mark Lindquist about his name - his answer was that after five generations the country of national origin seems far away - he said he mostly became interested about Bjorn Borg, the tennis star. Interestingly, I could find all these writers on the internet. Mark Lindquist has recently written a book called The King of Methlehem. Now it is available for me to check out. It is about the meth problem in Pierce County. The writers to me seemed to represent ideas of social concern - I asked them about a point I read in a book featured in the library display - that the Vietnam War was wrong and the effects of the war are found in everything in our country today. The event drew a good-sized audience and many people asked questions.