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Go take a train! Go look at stars! 🚂 🌌 🧳 🎁 #nature #wonder #travel

#SFSidewalkHaiku #256 among the dunes beach suncup claims their patch of California © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 05/16/2026, 📷 05/15/2026 #haikusaturday #Haiku 🌱🌿⏳ #oceanbeach #sunsetdunes #SFParksandRec #SanFrancisco

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…watching the ships roll in (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay #alphabetchallenge #weekSforSongs #SFBay #BernalHeights #lookingeast 📷 (© MDL 04/20/2026)

#SilentSunday #SkySunday #publicart #SanFrancisco #lookingwest 💘 🌁

At @jama.com today, 2 radiologists publish the correct consent form for a total body MRI in healthy people Note "no major medical society recommends whole-body MRI screening in the general population because it is unproven, and the harms likely outweigh the benefits." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#pisa #thearno #alphabetchallenge #weekRforReflections 📷 © RickEhling 10/16/2022 🇮🇹

Laundry day My neighbor’s chemicals straddle the fence ©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/04/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (breeze,pine) #senryu 🧺💨🪟🌲

#Velellavelella #bythewindsailor #alphabetchallenge #weekRforReflection #thePacific #FortFunston #SanFrancisco Each reflecting surf, sea, and sky, each a galaxy turning from jelly to cellulose A beach line full of them

#silentSunday #skySunday #SanFrancisco #theFerryBuilding #lookingsoutheast 📷 © 05/01/2026

“The net result, if those plans are followed, will be a return to the level of U.S. troops based in Germany before the war in Ukraine began.“ …so more pullback on Ukraine but still a lot of troops? Also if the headline is a guide - Germany shouldn’t dress so provocatively? 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🎁

gather and measure each separate dry and wet then sift, stir, and whisk bake a bit - for alchemy - a sum greater than it’s parts © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/30/2026 #natankamo #MayTanka (cake) #poetry #5lines 🎛️ 🥮🧁🍰 🍋 🍽️

today’s sunset rests, hammocked on this gilded day © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/28/2026, 📷 11/2024 #dailyhaikuprompt (bright) #Haiku #haikusaturday #thePacific from the #16StTileTopStairs #SanFrancisco

“Megan Burkett, 49, a nurse practitioner…dropped coverage for herself, her husband and her son in the face of escalating costs. She is working three part-time jobs, none of which offer health insurance.” I’ve seen this film, the ending’s sad. 🩺🇺🇸🎁🌊 #healthcare #affordability

so little ripe in this long ill season of rot and excess still i sow seeds future flowers, future fruit © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/30/2026 #natankamo #MayTanka (ripe) #tanka #poetry #5lines 🌸🍎🇺🇸🌱

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🎁 🩺 “minimal comfort feeding” A friend’s mother announced she was “done eating” and her family gathered for her death in the following week My own mom still enjoys chocolate and dessert, and home cooking - sometimes, but it’s also a struggle some days. Maybe it doesn’t have to be?

#SFSidewalkHaiku #255 lingering wet from cement cracks super blooms © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/27/2026, 📷 04/13 #dailyhaikuprompt (lingering) #Haiku #poppies #volunteers 🌱 #SanFrancisco #NoeValley

For the last day of #nationalpoetrymonth another by #JaneHirshfield, #AugustDay #NaPoMo #poetry 🌱🍎⏳ “You work with what you are given — today I am blessed, today I am given luck.”

Today TWO poem for #nationalpoetrymonth …when one sees a black bird, what does one see? #MyCrow by #RaymondCarver #DreamoftheRaven by #AdaLimón #NaPoMo #poetry 🐦‍⬛ “This was…” (the other crows cited in the Carver poem are easy enough to find)

another late rain …and still the hills fall to flax © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/27/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (spring rain) #Haiku #theGoldenState #California #goldenhills #callandresponse

#carrotcake #cupcakes 🥕🍰 🧁 🍽️ My mom is reliving her carrot caked youth, and these are now in the rotation She was a🥇baker, including her carrot cake, but those recipes are back in NJ I cut sugar a bit and baked low and long to preserve moisture They’re a decent muffin unfrosted

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #WhatToDo by #WSDiPiero #NaPoMo #poetry “—what to do with it now?— and what it does to us still“

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #Nostos by #LouiseGlück #NaPoMo #poetry 🍎 🗓️🪾 “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.“

our #taxtherich sweatshirt usually gets a thumbs up, a knowing nod, or a chuckle today someone asked for “an explanation” all worked out, no blood or raised voices, common ground on level playing fields still next time I think I’ll start with “I’m assuming you don’t have a problem with ‘The’.”

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #SmallPoemSunday #OldDrValentineToHisSon by #OgdenNash 🩺 💭 #NaPoMo #poetry

#skysunday #silentsunday #lookingeast #betweenstorms #SFBay #bernalheights #SanFrancisco #HollyPark 📷 04/20/2026

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #PotRoast by #MarkStrand #NaPoMo #poetry 🥘🍽️ “The meat of memory. The meat of no change.”

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #FromBlossoms by #Li-YoungLee #NaPoMo #poetry 🌸 🍑 “There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background” 

#SFSidewalkHaiku #254 Sun and soil then flower Each vein of gold Mined to field © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/23/2026 📷 04/18 #dailyhaikuprompt (gold) #Haiku 🌱🌿 #californianative #douglasiris #calflora #Fulton

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #SpringAndAll by #WilliamCarlosWilliams #NaPoMo #poetry “They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.” 

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #TheRound by #StanleyKunitz #NaPoMo #poetry “as it does each day”

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #Whydoyoustayupsolate? by #DonPaterson #NaPoMo #poetry 🌌 🏞️ 🪨🗿🏛️ “So I collect the dull things of the day in which I see some possibility” “then I paint it with the tear to make it bright”

#SFSidewalkHaiku #253 unexpected rain walking among daylilies wet but unbothered © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/20/2026 📷 04/13/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (orange) #Haiku #senryu 🌧️ 🌱 🟧 #SanFrancisco #NoeValley

my dad 💜 bearded irises (and peonies and hibiscus), collecting old varieties. I’ve never been them blooming in his garden but I gifted him heirlooms as old as 1500. These aren’t old but he’d have loved their boldness. 🕯️ #alphabetchallenge #weekPforPurple 📷 04/20/2026 #beardediris #aprilshower 🌱☂️

“It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.“ What a great essay. Thank you.

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #AftertheDiagnosis by #ChristianWiman (another by Wiman, also not a spice shop) #NaPoMo #poetry 🏡 “Change is a thing one sleeps through when young,”  

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #SmallPoemSunday #Tree by #JaneHirshfield #NaPoMo #poetry 🌲🏡 “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #ToadDreams by #MargePiercy #NaPoMo #poetry 🐸 💭 “We are far too busy to be starkly simple in passion.”

#SFSidewalkHaiku #252 under a spring moon some night moths become blooms © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/15/2026 #haikusaturday #Haiku 🌒 🌱 #africaniris #fortnightlily #NoeValley #SanFrancisco

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #dutchinteriors by #JaneKenyon ( #ekphrastic, a revolution told beautifully, deceptively, simply ) #NaPoMo #poetry “Now tell me that the holy ghost does not reside in the play of light on cutlery!”

#torsoofhermes, after Polykleitos, II AD, marble #romanart #LegionofHonor #FAMSF #alphabetchallenge #weekOforOld 📷 © 04/03/2025

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #AQuietLife by #BaronWormser #NaPoMo #poetry 🥚⏲️ “Listen, she is there, pecking at a bit of grain that came from nowhere” 

“Bright lightning” not the dull kind I hit search ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/15/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (bright lightning) ⚡️🌩️ ⛈️ #senryu 🤔🤷‍♂️ www.rmets.org/metmatters/t...

After the fires. 🔥 #buildingcosts #buildingcodes #construction #planning #affordability #architecture #LosAngeles 🎁

here plum blossoms past I gather my rake thinking of snow © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/15/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (plum) #Haiku 🌸 ❄️ #Oubaitori (桜梅桃李)

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #LetterFromaReader by #AdamZagajewski, tr. #ClareCavanagh (So what’re you writing about? And how do you keep the critics at bay?) #NaPoMo #poetry “Write about…”

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth #thebeachatsunset by #EloiseKleinHealy (my last Golden State poem: SoCal, the coast, and our brief lives) #NaPoMo #poetry “a grain of sand, a perfect world where you live beyond the facts of what your body has given you”

#SFSidewalkHaiku #251 Down the street from excavating pipes Sweetshade and relief © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/14/2026 📷 04/13 #dailyhaikuprompt (yellow) #senryu #sweetshade 🌱 🇦🇺 #SanFrancisco #NoeValley Such a well sited “right tree right place” on my walk. A mix of citrus and plumeria in one 🌳