Baseball Poetry Contests - National Baseball Poetry Festival Baseball Poetry Contests for youth and adults at the National Baseball Poetry Festival held at Polar Park in Worcester, MA

Free to submit, contest open to adults and kids grades 4-12. Multiple winners in each category.

baseballpoetryfest.org/baseball-poe...

I followed this dude for a minute, I'm thinking he is a bunny fancier, no?

I just saw this sign at a local restaurant in Tucson, AZ. I’d like to see more like it.

I heard someone say "I wish this summer was shaping up to be a little more Barbie and a lot less Oppenheimer"

gin and tonic ✔️ crudités ✔️ writing a poem ✔️
in my happy place at Villa Feltrinelli, Lake Garda, Italy.

I'm day drinking Old Fashioned's in a real seedy Tucson bar with a "friend."

History repeating itself?

This is the oldest selfie on my phone. Palm Springs 2011. Wearing reading glasses, I needed them until cataract surgery.

Growing up with sisters you learned the exact amount you could annoy them before they try to physically kill you.

Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
~ Susie Dent

Wings by Sculptor Kevin Titzer, I loves it!

A notable aspect of private health insurance is the absence of any reason for it to exist. It does not contain costs, expand coverage, or expedite care-it makes those all worse. Its sole function is to profit as a rent-seeking middleman between patients and providers.
— Max Kennedy

I'm smiling on the inside at my happy place. Eating breakfast at Sensei Lāna'i.

For reference.

Well, when put it that way…

Literally......

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.

But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.