Monthly Archives: June 2020

An asteroid the size of a football field which could have caused a nuclear explosion on contact with our planet whizzed by us in early June, completely unnoticed till afterward by the planet’s astronomers and scientists. Kind of gives you … Continue reading →

which I’ve mentioned before here several times is the inability to make distinctions. The calls to defund police are assumed by many protesters to = doing away with police depts. altogether. Black Lives Matter aside, we’d have complete chaos if … Continue reading →

Shades of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (“Yesterday the bird of night did sit./Even at noon-day upon the marketplace,/Hooting and shrieking.” I knew something was up when, on the Sat. morning walk, we saw two baby squirrels being chased by magpies in … Continue reading →

Agreed for a long, long time.

–John Keats The very thing people are missing or have forgotten about in the current climate of death, racism, and political change/agendas. Beauty is most obvious in Nature, first and foremost. Beauty in man-made things (e.g., art, music, poetry) can … Continue reading →

now more than ever it is important for adults and kids to get outside on bikes in their quiet neighborhoods during the nicest period of the year. For fresh air, exercise, and health maintenance to counteract too-long indoor sedentary lifestyle.

Fresh corn on the cob with beans and Cob’s sourdough bread.

Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, the screenplay for Huston’s Moby Dick. And all his wonderful imaginative stories. 100 of his best in the above volume.

after the term “bear market”.

Her unexpected 2013 labor of love (4 CDs and 1 DVD), the Close-Up Series, by her own record company is an eyeopener and reveals her as a significant songwriter, performer, and recording artist from the 1980s beyond her best-known hits. … Continue reading →