Grateful to all the men and women who served.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools upon the meek the graces shower it's decreed the people rule youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA?...

🎶 Even in these days I find This far down the line I find good in us sometimes 🎶 youtu.be/93iJcfvkdYw?...

It's 10:30 am, first Tuesday of the month, sirens being tested, pray for peace.

RIP Diane Ladd "We are all in this together. Let the children of this world stand on our shoulders in the hopes that they may see further than we have. Let us and our children be kinder, hold the door open for the next one, less judgmental, regardless of race or religion.”

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~ Oscar Wilde

It hurts to hate doesn't it? Who needs Spring to love? Even strangers on BS say, luv you.❤️ Some do make hate easy. "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." -Confucius

Gray November I've been down since (last November) I rewind the tape but all it does is pause On the very moment all was lost Sending signals To be double crossed Can't not think of all the cost And the things that (have been) lost Oh, can we just get a pause? - Taylor Swift (and me)

2025 has felt like 10 months of watching the shaky hands crew play highest stakes game of jenga ever

I have never minded paying taxes and have always voted yes on requests to fund, schools, roads, parks, etc. I want my taxes to benefit all of us. What the government is doing now is stealing our money to give it to people who don’t deserve it or need it.

I'm not telling you to make the world better, I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. ~ Joan Didion

"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse." ~ Charlotte Brontë

Happy birthday Jonas Salk.

we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.

It never hurts to wish good things for people.

"Good morning to everyone but the people who voted to cut food benefits for 42 million Americans while their own paychecks stay untouched. Cake for the boardroom, nothing for the pantry."

RIP June Lockhart. I watched her in "Lassie" and "Lost in Space" when I was a kid, and when she was a kid, she had a role in (my favorite version of) “A Christmas Carol” with her parents, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart.

Flashback Friday (me and my sister in 2012) "If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart." ~ Betty Ford

"I really haven't made many (changes), Mr. Vanocur, because one can't. It doesn't belong to anyone, but to everyone in this country." - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, on The White House

Nice work if you can get it.

I think we might have missed the turn.

They seemed happy in the historic White House Ballroom we already had. Simple. Elegant. Like Princess Diana.

FDR Memorial Washington, DC (the quote is from a Fireside Chat)

The East Wing in better times.

I’m glad I got to see the old White House, and the old United States. Gonna miss both.

In December I was lucky enough to go to an open house tour at the White House. I knew that I wouldn’t want to go back anytime soon. I was moved by the stories of Jacqueline Kennedy‘s thoughtful care in restoring things, the art she had commissioned, the garden. He’s paving over it.

No big deal. Just the host of The Apprentice demolishing The East Wing to build a ballroom.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov

At the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, visitors can walk freely between Canada and the United States—no passport required. It was built in 1901 by Martha Stewart Haskell as a gift to unite both sides of the border.

I have never seen such a perfect image

“I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.” ― Walter Mosely

The No Kings protests aren’t about trying to stop elections or interfere with government business. They are at their core about reminding a government that has wholly lost sight of the fact that it is supposed to be serving the people and not itself. That’s as American as it gets

"There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time." ~ Margaret Atwood

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Them: Don't lose hope! Me: OMG, was I supposed to have hope to begin with?

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"We are a society of altruists, governed by psychopaths." ~ George Monbiot

“Whether this is the first day of the Apocalypse or the first day of the Golden Age, the work remains the same...to love each other and ease as much suffering as possible.” ~ Ram Dass

“Oh well, la-di-da, la-di-da.” (Annie Hall) RIP Diane Keaton

"and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

🎶 People askin' questions Lost in confusion Well, I tell them there's no problem Only solutions 🎶

E Pluribus Unum ~ "Out of Many, One" There's no them. Only us.