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Stay the course
Stay strong, and stay the course. In today’s mail came my Stand Up and Stand Out t-shirt for racial justice. Deliberately designed (by me) with an understated message — Edmund Pettus Bridge — in...
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J.R. Ross and his cowboy poetry
In memoriam John Robert Ross (May 7, 1938 to May 13, 2025). The news of Haj’s death came in my morning e-mail on Wednesday 5/14, right next to a Bizarro cartoon with a cowboy joke / restaurant joke,...
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Not in a bad mood, just smart
The abbreviated form of a slogan, or tag line, that I came across on Facebook this morning, in what appeared to be a panel from a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon (see the Watterson signature), or could be an...
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Weepy, sneezy, sleepy
… with runny nose and gravelly voice. Yes, I am afflicted by spring allergies. Many possible contributors, but an obvious trigger is the stand of star jasmine blooming so beautifully, and smelling so...
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Leather jackets, jockstraps, boots, and d&a
(Entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest. Starting with the painting that set this posting off when it appeared in today’s Pinterest mailing for me. Which has a leather jacket, a...
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Withering away, or not
three tigers for ultimate May, and locally (here in the middle of the San Francisco peninsula) the tigers are blazingly summer-hot — in the 80s F yesterday, which made tending to my garden even in...
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From 6/10: creamy-white blue-eyed grass
Among Tuesday’s crowd of events (it’s now Friday, and life has been stressful and unpleasant, but I’m trying to produce at least one pleasant thing): a visit to Palo Alto’s Gamble Garden, taken there...
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