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rickehling.bsky.social
physician, walker, poet. šŸ©ŗšŸš¶āœļø šŸ“· šŸŒæšŸŒ±šŸ½ļø San Francisco šŸŒ… #poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe. Ā©, or credited. outrage (when I must).
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I find the ā€œright action for the wrong reasonā€ camp particularly maddening That congressional inaction (as always now) and our ever lenient and frightened press
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truth if from…one representative of one side that seems to learn nothing from opening Pandora’s Box…again and again
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Most boomers had some education in journalism and critical thinking, (who/what/where/when/why and how were big in my high school English curriculum), which may be faded memories but can be revived
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send them my way, I’m the baby in the boomer wave - really too long to be A generation I have a lifetime of speaking truth to babysitters, older kids and older siblings, technically all from my age range …I’d probably start by not correcting but asking where they got such bad information
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more WMDs, for sure šŸ˜œšŸ˜‰šŸ¤« on the plus side we’ll hear less about the orange guy getting the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Also I’m pretty sure Cuomo already had the ā€œHandsy Grandpaā€ vote locked
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…well they’ve known each other for years - maybe even ā€œpartied togetherā€ Il pesce puzza dalla testa
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I am not much on faith, but I have hope and look for signs This AM I woke to solstice sun at my window, a room cool before heatwave settles, several groups of the Missionaries of Charity, singing prayer, moving just below my bays on their way to quiet battles, and your poem šŸ™šŸ¼
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šŸ™ you are a joy to work with šŸ˜‰
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All while most of America bakes under a ā€œheat domeā€
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nice. especially like , the dark blurs of who, what, and why
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🧐 clever.
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if it floats, you know it was made with AI
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evening breeze and waved sea reflect on passing night
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…more than data, bought and sold
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All of the old B&W šŸ“· of lost #SanFrancisco outdoor pools - Sutro and Fleishhacker - and then current outdoor ones in Montreal, Australia, and Scandinavia are particularly galling. We have near perfect solar scores (for heat). They’re building floating pools on retired barges worldwide …but not here.
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Brandywine? German Pink? I miss the heat that permits large backyard tomatoes.
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Love an abundance of mint and fully expect it to ā€œcreepā€ into other dish’s - grilled meats and tomato dishes, so many salads, pestos/sauces/dips. My own mint takes a midsummer pause ( it’s in my dry bed in the shade, the only way to control it ). But I also have a deck pot.
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I had a great pair of silver patent leather slip-on sneakers in my 50’s (by the Greats, an Olympics offering) I wish I’d bought 4 pairs I loved them, my patients loved them, my residents loved them I wore them out and haven’t found a replacement equally loud yet also understated
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…but isn’t ICE arresting all the rakers? (I guess we should all be happy that all those Jewish Space Lasers are focused on Tehran now)
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…well he does speak from experience there’s no real adjudication for how much money he’s made. #taxtherich
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…either gourmand or very hungry deer they tend to avoid stronger tastes for us (herbal, peppery, minty, oniony, etc)
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The courts are consistently bad at medical science in particular - outlawing procedures not results (partial birth abortion), allowing roadblock expenses or waiting periods, letting employer religious beliefs trump patients’ own ( and thus their choices) Politics beat fact or equity at the bench
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So sorry I had to have some emergency plumbing done during a caregiver respite trip back east 15 months ago I still think about that day far too often Waste is its own momento mori
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…so a mock monarch on a mock orange 🄁
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…and Oklahoma?
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The 3.5% rule seems to apply to weekend protests (and ideally for more than one day?) So sadly yes. And we need to shame the Republican Congress too, the polling numbers on their bill don’t seem to be deterring them. Hard to keep the message simple when so much is wrong
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Stitch fix
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I’ve been to both Tule Lake and Manzanar here in California where little remains but plaques Though the topography at Tule Lake does still have hints of the 3500 acres that were farmed to feed the camp - all were auctioned off to returning veterans after WWII.
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…something about a broken clock comes to mind
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…bet the Ten Commandments weren’t posted in his classrooms there
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sorry on this I am very bauhaus form follows function and this one’s purpose poisoned it
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if you haven’t read The Overstory I highly recommend it I was lucky enough to grow up along the thin band of the Appalachian Trail skirting NW New Jersey, followed by a decade straddling New Hampshire and Vermont, and now blessed with California’s coastal Sequoias; forest bathing feeds me
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Like them prepared - in custards, cakes, or ice cream but I’m not a fan of them just off the tree It a textural thing - like I’m fine with yellow bananas but the really ripe ones are for banana bread only (to each his own)
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I wish there was more written on all the EMPTY seats Or just one article giving crowd estimates (nokings vs. Bone spurs birthday bash) I know media is scared but let AI photo analysis take the blame
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I make it every few years when true nostalgia for NJ shore vacations or salt water taffy hit hard.
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cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019...
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So we don’t have to?
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Nowhere near it. Didn’t even hear about it until I got home (that’s how large it was). We wanted to be nearer to the end. I wanted to get a shot of the crowd with the Ferry Building far off but my iPhone lens wasn’t good enough.