I'm waiting for you..

He would be proud of you!

Can we go back before the Winter Olympics' lockerroom binge and answer this question: What is 'The Poodle Room" in Las Vegas🍹

What time period does she cover?

Back when the British owned Kharg Island's refinery and docks.

I just finished this novel and enjoyed it; it has characters who want to know and/or work with persons who have integrity "not adults who treated integrity as if it were a flaw." (See Page 64.)

Reminds me of GK Chesterton's 'On Orthodoxy' inwhich he Reminds the reader that the church may be a leaking boat, but we have to stay on course through the storms and bring more people on board.

The various 'No Kings' marches have included placards and costumes regarding the destruction on the White House & all the gold decorations inside. The Guardian has been covering this regularly. In DC local picketers, have protested the proposed arch and the ballroom. Will post on my Bluesky fed.

Lace up your sandals in preparation for the gospel of peace.

—Ephesians 6

That is so ingenious and pleasant in appearance. Thank you for sharing.

She took a lot of chances and stood her ground.

While quilts were originally for persons with AIDS, I really think we need quilts now for victims of gun violence. I lost friends to AIDS, and have lost friends in this century to gun violence. What do you think?

Are they planning robot soldiers?

This is the cover of Claire North's novel 'Slow Gods'. The title words are separated to reveal a single white space ship flying away from two large planets with a double star behind the flight path of the ship. The cover is black and the planets, their orbits, and the suns are blood red.

During the 20th Century's Cold War, there were a number of significant SciFi novels addressing world destruction. 'Slow Gods' is major 21st Century novel for our time.

#LatestReads 📖👓
#SpeculativeFiction🔭
#ScienceFiction🚀
#PotentialHugo

This is a photo of a single Iris stem with multiple purple and white blooms on this one stem. The flowers are white with delicate purple edges on each petal.

This photo shows a single stem of white Iris with two blooms and three other buds on the stem in our front yard.

Despite three weeks without rain, our sturdy Iris are blooming. Their korms can endure heat, cold, and a lack of precipitation.

#BlueSkyGarden 🌱🌿
#BloomScrolling 🌻

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full
For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

There were some other GOP VIPs involved too, but since I live in Georgia, that was the one I remembered going to Minnesota for a visit. His 1st cousin David Perdue was a Georgia GOP Senator at the time too.

The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose and send his minions....

These are Chicago White Sox baseball fans a few weeks after Pope Leo was officially elected. The White Sox have officially presented His Holiness with a baseball cap and other fan merch.

A major portion of this area belongs to Native Americans. Also, Canada is in the watershed for this area. Finally, during the 1st Trump administrative, his Sec. of Agriculture, Sonny Purdue, had a major financial stake in this mining project. (He was Gov. of Georgia prior to the Cabinet post.)

This photo shows the green, terminal leaves, of two branches on my Oak Leaf Hydrangea bush. They had partially unfolded their leaves which are pointed and triangular in shape. When open, they will be large, like a hand's silhouette with distinct ridges.

Leaves unfolding can be as beautiful as flowers. Here are are a a pair on my mature Oak Leaf Hydrangea bush.

#BlueSkyGarden 🌱🌿
#BloomScrolling 🌻

Wasn't he taking over Cuba and Venezuela once upon a time? The Western Hemisphere, Monroe Doctrine...

They are made to look aggressive, but they are just ugly and expensive.

There is a video that the Cathedral in Durham has posted on their website of a reading of the poem with various views of the crosses within the church and grounds.

There is a YouTube video of the poet reading his translation; it is powerful

B&W photo portrait of Alice Sollier, née Alice Mathieu-Dubois as a young woman #WomenInSTEM #HistMed

Alice Sollier (née Mathieu-Dubois) French doctor. 1887 1st Black French woman to qualify as medical doctor. 1st French female physician to be director of private healthcare facility. 1 of 72 women whose names proposed to be added to #EifffelTower b. #OTD 3 Apr 1861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_S...

Jeannette Rankin

On this day in 1917, Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman elected in Congress. She told fellow suffragists: “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.”

Rankin is still the only woman to have represented Montana in Congress. #WeTheMen

Sit-ins & Teach-ins at or in elected officials office would be good

Augusta Braxton Baker.

#ResistanceRoots

Augusta Braxton Baker was born on this day in 1911 in Baltimore. She was a librarian and master storyteller who transformed children’s literature by championing positive and authentic representations of Black life. She also spent nearly 40 years diversifying library collections. /1