To thine own self be true

To go along with 2 impeachments and 2 election defeats.
Here, we broke open and split a Smirnoff Ice. We will also toast his appearance in court Tuesday.

“Lock him up! Lock him up!”

WELCOME.”
Message from left to right written in colored chalks on sidewalk in front of the local elementary school where my kids attended some 40 years ago. It has since become a Mandarin bilingual school.

“…the world lay spread before me.”
–end of part 1 of Great Expectations

I can recall many times experiencing the feeling of that line throughout my life.

The voice of the popular Bossa Nova hit “The Girl from Ipanema” that topped the charts in 1964. Backed by sax legend Stan Getz, this song was a sensation and one of jazz’s chart-topping hits Her guitar-playing composer husband Joao wrote the song and also sang in Portugese on the extended album version.

The government cancellation of the wildfire emergency as wildfires continue to burn hither and yon (15 out of control) and people have been evacuated or live with the threat of imminent evacuation.

The reason: to dupe Albertans that all is well. Media is not analyzing how the UCP firefighting cutbacks helped the wildfires get out of control. Or covering the return of Covid, about which we no longer get government reports.

Danielle and UCP are very good at manipulating and messing with Albertans’ minds. More stupidity: campfire bans have been lifted!

Very heartening, firefighters from the States, Africa, Australia, and other countries to deal with the widespread national wildfires.

The Sherpa that saved the life of a white climber by, selflessly, carrying him down Everest on his back!

The black polyglot Arab Muslim Egyptian-born female CISIS agent, living in Canada, who has just come out about being the only spy in the world who could fulfill UK’s MIV spy agency’s requirements in pursuing justice for a bad London terrorist attack.

She has saved many lives along the way, but was, ironically, unappreciated by and discriminated against by her own people at CISIS. She has now come out to tell her story that Diversity Saves Lives. An impressively strong female model for girls and all non-caucasian women.

His epic hour-long elegy to his mother Naomi who suffered much and long from schizophrenia. These visionary lines from her last letter to Allen which he received two days after she died:
She wrote—”The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window—I have the key—”

78%–the percentage of the avg. 2.8 lb. brain that is water.
Therefore….

Stephen Pinker quote:
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.