Monday again

 

Space...the final frontier. Well, at least the moon again!

An excellent read. Slowly. Not something to digest in minutes.

I heard about Tyson Yunkaporta when Starhawk quoted him. 

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. —Nelson Mandela

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

HELEN KELLER

Wordless Wednesday

 A few photos I've been meaning to share.

The hiking trail in entrance to the hoodoos at Bryce National Park, Utah,

By Todie Franklin Hess, Blue Ridge of NC

Sunrise at Toroweap - Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Looking out through Treehouse Shop window at the pottery fair in Dillsboro, NC 2013

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Yesterday I had a sad conversation with my care coordinator, who I've spoken with monthly by phone for maybe 4 years. I was emotional. The practice is closing here in Black Mountain. I told Rob that he knows more about me than anyone else. It's like having a husband without the rigamarole! Well, only on the medical level of course. It was so hard to say good-bye to him. Like breaking up with a boyfriend used to feel. I had to count to 3 and we both had to hang up at the same time. I wonder why I'm still a teenager.

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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (27 Jun 1880-1968)  

Thai Basil lunch

 

The same comfortable eating area, with new owners in the last year. 

My summer rolls, with more cilantro than I was expecting,  and less basil. But I did enjoy them with the delightful peanut sauce. 

We each chose Pad Thai, mine here with shrimp. It was delicious and gave me two meals...but why would people cook shrimp with the tail on, which has to be removed before one can eat it? I never quite understand this!

A very nice menu presentation. One has to remember that all the meals on one page are only priced according to whatever the protein is added.

We had a choice of a salad and spring roll or crab Rangoon with our lunches.

My friend and I went home with left overs for another meal. But I'm not drawn to return. During Covid I would stop by when they were open to get a take-away with tofu and broccoli in a peanut sauce. I couldn't find anything like that. Pad Thai was the only thing with peanut sauce that I saw.

Hope you enjoyed seeing our lunch.

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A couple of days ago I learned that my oldest son, Marty, has a new-to-us disease, where lots of tests have confirmed his condition. He wants to keep details private at this time, but I am quite concerned about him. He just turned 61 in the spring, and works daily outside in Florida.

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Today's quote:

Rather than relying on a thin, idealized hope that we will all one day just get along, we can approach conflict resolution as an art form that we are privileged to develop and hone.

Diane Musho Hamilton

---------------- An old photo: Myself and Marty Heym enjoying pre-sunset on St. Petersburg FL beach, 2019.  I'm happy to say I'm about 40 pounds lighter now, while Marty has a bit more grey in his hair.

A remarkable woman who was an activist

June 27  

(OK a few days late for the birthday!)

June 27

Happy birth anniversary to

"...Helen Keller (1880), born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months old, she came down with an illness — possibly scarlet fever — that left her blind and deaf. Alexander Graham Bell examined her when she was six years old and sent Anne Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, to help her. Sullivan stayed with Keller until she (Sullivan) died in 1936.

Keller moved to New York when she was 13 and attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. She was admitted to Radcliffe in 1899. She published her first of 14 books, The Story of My Life, in 1902. She loved being on stage; she starred in a silent film about her life, called Deliverance (1919), and she also went on vaudeville tours for several years, which she enjoyed a great deal. Not so Anne Sullivan, however, and Keller retired from the stage when her teacher no longer felt up to accompanying her.

Though history tends to portray her simply as an inspirational figure struggling with and overcoming the adversity of her handicaps, she tended to place her battles firmly in the political arena. In 1909, she joined the United States Socialist Party, and she supported Eugene V. Debs in his presidential campaigns. She joined the radical Industrial Workers of the World in 1912, visiting workers in appalling conditions. “I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums,” she said. “If I could not see it, I could smell it.” She also campaigned for women’s suffrage. She protested against World War I, and was one of the first members of the American Civil Liberties Union.

SOURCE: Writer's Almanac 2017