Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Strands #576 “For goodness' sake” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵 Where oh where have these gone

Now that cataract surgery complications are cleared up, I’m finally reading again. Starting The Stations of Still Creek by Barbara J Scot; finally able to finish A Song For The River by Philip Connors (about his time as a fire watcher in the Gila Nat’l Forest 50 mi. from my home in New Mexico (2/2)

Not able to read for quite a few weeks, listened to: Eminence by Morris West-very good; Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi-very good; The Shell Collector by Hugh Howey-ok; The God of the Woods by Liz Moore-ok; Proxima Rising by Brandon Q Morris-good. OK’s=not thrilled with narrator (1/2)

Strands #567 “Stand by me” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Just breathe I’m here for you

In memory of those lost and those left behind on 9/11; NYC, PA, DC Hymn For The Lost And Living by Eric Ewazen youtu.be/P_D3zkAkjL0

Let's all congratulate Elijah for completing our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program! 🥳

@bigbeardedbookseller.com Have paused reading last week’s titles due to cataract surgery (corrective due to some sort of slippage from last surgery). Listening to The Door by Magda Szabó and read by Siân Thomas

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6

Strands #495 “It could be verse” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Waken to thunder and rain Red dust morphs to clay Tarantulas burrow deep

Strands #489 “Every second counts” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵 …now is the time for all wise people to come to defend The Constitution and the liberty of our Republic of democracy and freedom.

Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #281 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Oh Canada!

Strands #485 “Center of attraction” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵 …missing Seaside NJ… Once a Jersey girl, always a Jersey girl…. And, hey! There is no ‘joy’ in ‘Jer’ see. Just sayin’

Better to tell him to resign leadership. You can't have open bigots in positions of power. This must be terrifying for his Muslim constituents and members of his Caucus.

Messaging my lawmakers like

a little grace goes a long way

Strands #483 “Hue are my sunshine” 🟡🟠🟣🔵 🟢🔴🏳️‍🌈

NEMO is a pilot programme for mobility and artistic exchange, to foster international collaboration, strengthen artistic networks across the region and support artists. Cash, support and connections. Link below. Please share :)

Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #270 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟣🟣🟣 …sometimes I surprise myself LOL

Strands #473 “Life is a highway” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 “The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.” H. H. Humphrey

Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #266 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟣🟣🟣🟣 Hhhmmm, the things you learn simply be listening to your nephew’s sports chatter.

Strands #470 “Key notes” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵 “How did you not get that perfectly?’” Says my mom the piano teacher. Oy

Wordle 1,457 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 We’ve got dozens on our property. They’re so funny.

Strands #469 “Here's to him!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Yesterday, across the country, we gathered under the banner of No Kings. A protest rooted in the belief that power is answerable to the people—no one, no matter how loud or well-funded or uniformed, is above accountability. check out The Dad Briefs

Strands #468 “It's a banner day” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Flag Day. 250th anniversary of the formation of THE CONTINENTAL ARMY (the army of the 13 colonies which went to war to defeat British Imperialism; ie NO KINGS)

Strands #467 “Scattering petals” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days, The rising of the women means the rising of the race. No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.

Strands #466 “Gone fishing” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵 Trump Administration has taken actions related to trade that will impact the sportfishing industry, including tariffs on critical components in the manufacturing of sportfishing tackle and accessories. www.wired2fish.com/news/asa-iss...

Strands #465 “If you build it ...” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵 “Home is a notion that only nations of homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.” – Wallace Stegner “Homelessness reflects not individual failings, but society’s unwillingness to care for its people.” – Unknown

Strands #464 “Mind your manners” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged. Bryan Stevenson

Strands #462 “On Broadway” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise. from Les Miz

Strands #456 “On the vine” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Can not wait!

Wordle 1,442 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 …every day

Connections Puzzle #720 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Almost got fooled by one of the words. Only got purple because they were all that were left. :-)

Strands #454 “Next to the bobby pins” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 It helped that I use these things

Tra-la! It’s May! Forest desert blooms in my xeriscape garden in Deming New Mexico

Connections Puzzle #691 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 …just luck, pure luck…

Wordle 1,413 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not mine

Strands #425 “What a trill!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Birds of a feather…

Wordle 1,407 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 not ***** on a pogo stick not the Southern ***** series but a sibling ***** of ideas

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Your covers have started a trend!