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PNW Inhabitant Easily distracted by shiny objects. Strive against the odds to make a model of balancing people, prosperity, and the planet.
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There was a time this song drove me crazy. music.apple.com/us/album/she...

End of a shitty work week! The massage I just got and👇 will start off a long weekend. A good friend arrives tomorrow 😁

This 👇 and the national parks are free this summer with half price camping. Meanwhile in America Republicans are pushing forward a controversial provision in their sweeping budget reconciliation bill that would authorize the sale of up to 3.3 m acres of public land in the Western United States.

Is “maybe I will, maybe I won’t” kinda the same as on again, off again tarrifs?

My mind is still as sharp as a whatchamacallit.

The Supreme Court majority wants us to believe that the Equal Protection Clause does not apply equally to all people.

Reminds of the main moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is that lying, even as a joke, can erode trust and lead to serious consequences when the truth is eventually told.

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top! Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

🤯 thenarwhal.ca/national-par...

😎😎 www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I don’t want to see American soldier caskets from another war.💔

www.texastribune.org/2025/05/19/t...

Contract workers? www.businessinsider.com/tech-execs-j...

The realization of a missed opportunity is hammered home from both sides, every day.

Ugh, sucky work day. Ice cream cone didn’t help. Show me your favorite pet pics please.

None of the people quoted in this article are willing to face the source of the violent rhetoric and begin to do any work to stop it. It's all "both sides" or not me." www.startribune.com/after-one-of...

Shiny, bright day in the PNW. Enjoy, weekend forecast is rain😒

This is the normal for this administration. It’s our job to shift public opinion.

Ah, it’s the tie that lengthens with each lie.

The Arc - Indonesia. Fusing ancient Balinese craftsmanship & cutting-edge engineering – “a soaring bamboo gymnasium that mimics the arch. of a human ribcage, where 14m arches & tensioned gridshells create an unprecedented lightweight structure spanning 19m w/out a single supporting column”.

Japanese artist Lito

The book Phi by Giulio Tononi – the fewer concepts we approach a problem with, the freer we are to bloom from a place of authenticity. “A blank slate,” it says, “is the best path for tracing a new map -

Maybe don’t outsource trust to institutions, political parties, or corporations?

…think about how our understanding of entire cultures gets filtered through the narrow lens of political headlines and diplomatic tensions…

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. – C.S. Lewis

Trump’s promised calm world

Nolina is sporting blooms.