This place, my space, refuge unadorned, So quickly does it have its effect, calming, settling my busy, sometimes troubled mind, Sometimes most times the scribbled words dribble out in some way - like now - that creates the space for my mind to settle, not struggle so much but instead, Face the music and the …

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Took a while - decades really - for me to reset my brain to this particular mentality, Weekends are not (always? Ever? Default?) for doing, stuffing more into, packing activities and catch-ups and ….

Yung Pueblo with another home run…

Good bit, good to hear, maybe good for the heart too, all the better! The Portfolio Diet, let’s have a go, more of these if you please: legumes, nuts, fruits & vegetables, tasty, GOOD ~

With all the hubbub about government social programs to help the most needy in this country, this from the NYT recently to capture for the truth and the record… “Monthly SNAP participation averaged 39.5 million people from February 2017 to January 2021 under Mr. Trump; and the beneficiary count was about 41.7 million from February …

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Resist. The. Wordle. Whisper. Too. Early. Morning. It will be there later. But it’s so fun when it goes well! No. Resist. And rest.

Sack up, Republican-controlled House of Representatives & Senate, Super-majority Conservative Supreme Court, Please do your duty above politics, STAND UP, for the power that has been granted you branch, Govern our country, our America.

Let’s not forget that this is the system of government we have in the US, a democracy, which means many things, including slow and difficult law-making at times, maybe all the time of late, Where politics and lay out and play out and it’s rough and sticky and hard, But compromise is the goal, good …

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I find myself wallowing, not wanting much more, needing to demand of myself a sharper edge, required, increasingly happy as activity decreases, I decline otherwise to consider if this ok, rather just do, whenever I have the chance, the time, a moment unexpected, seeking solace in the hallow, I wallow in what was and could …

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This new album, Touch, this music, this creative puzzle, “…a puzzle to be savored, rather than solved, perhaps…” Instrumentalist ensemble from a couple decades back, maybe three, doing their particularly unique thing, “…post-rock, dub, krautrock…so says Wiki. Grooving and finding their way, journeymen, heartening, Heartening, GOOD.