Swimsuits

 The swim suits!

What a fun way to walk on water!

Serious swimmers, a team of high school students at a meet. My granddaughter is in the black facing us on the right, from about 5 years ago.

A few years ago my family went from OH to FL for Christmas, where they found more freezing weather. Here one granddaughter smiles, while her sister in background wears pajama bottoms I think to keep warm, and dad, Russ, looks on by the Gulf of Mexico.

Finally getting to the sepia photos. Here my husband in the 60s rigs our little boat, while Russ (whose birthday is tomorrow) wears a orange lifejacket, and I'm in my favorite yellow (no polkadots) two piece suit.  An unknown little girl photo bombed the shot in the foreground. It's possible that my oldest son is floating around in the direction I'm looking, maybe wearing a white floatation thing. The water was really shallow!

Yep, someone captured me in my yellow swim suit floating around.  No my hair isn't that yellow stuff, but it's a little swim cap with fake hair! I'm not posting my latest swim suit where I definitely resembled an Easter egg.

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Today's quote:

Our essence is an expression of fulfillment, and the universe wants to satisfy our needs and desires.

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Sharing with Sepia Saturday!

Alan Burnett invites others to join our free fun site...

It's the middle of summer (well, it is in the Northern Hemisphere) and here on Sepia Saturday we are paddling in the seas of nostalgia. To protect our bodies from the sun we are hiding in the shade of countless memories, represented by a host of old photographs. Join us by sharing an old photograph or two either on themes (bathing suits, beaches, sand) or off theme (giant vegetables, top hats, or whatever you want) on or around Saturday 16th August 2025 and add a link to the list (on the site).

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And a very happy birthday wish to my second son, Russ. I celebrate virtually your life which has enriched so many!

Camping in St. Mary's GA with Tai (on left) and Russ when he was in college. We went to Cumberland Island GA for the next day.

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Today's quote:

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 Aug 1920-2012)

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See Open Yesterday's Pages for details of anniversary of Woodstock!

The good news list:

 

• The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas and the Spirit Lake Nation file a challenge against the state of North Dakota for attempting to throw out redistricting maps that enforce voting parity for the reservations’ electorate.
• The Avengers becomes the first movie dubbed into Lakota, a significant step in the preservation and promotion of Lakota language and culture.
• The Biden administration will empower Cuban entrepreneurs to import food and equipment from the U.S., access social media platforms, and hold business accounts with U.S. banks.
• The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions holds a hearing to learn firsthand from those affected by limits to abortion access.
• The Labor Dept. expands a rule requiring financial professionals to act in the best interest of those seeking retirement investment advice.
• The Biden administration proposes extreme heat protection standards for outdoor workers.
• USCIS redesignates and extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. 
• USCIS extends employment authorization documents for certain Temporary Protected Status holders.
• The Biden administration announces $1B in climate resilience funding for communities.
• AL: Marilyn Lands is elected to the state House after centering her campaign on reproductive rights.
• CO: Colorado’s governor signs a bill to facilitate in-person voting for incarcerated people in November.
• FL’s governor signs a bill banning intentional balloon releases, which will protect marine ecosystems.
• IN: An appeals court rules that the state’s abortion ban likely violates residents’ First Amendment rights.
• MA allocates $67M in federal grant money to improve Green Line accessibility.
• ME: Acadia National Park will electrify its bus fleet using a $23 million federal grant from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
• NC: A federal court overturns unnecessary impediments to accessing and taking abortion medication at home.
• NY: A new state law mandates paid lactation breaks for people needing to express breast milk.
• NY: Thanks to public outcry, New York City’s mayor and city council restore library funding.
• OH: A campaign successfully ensures a ballot initiative to end gerrymandering through the state’s citizen-initiated constitutional amendment process.
• RI: A circuit court upholds the state’s ban on high-capacity bullet magazines.
• RI makes it easier and safer for residents to change their legal name.
• TX: A judge’s ruling protects a migrant shelter on the US-Mexico border and affirms that offering support to migrants of any legal status is not illegal.
• Newbern, AL residents’ voting rights are restored for the first time in over sixty years.
• Chicago’s mayor launches a task force on reparations for Black residents.
• A former police officer faces legal consequences for using illegal chokeholds and violating the civil rights of two men.
• 100% of profits from tea company Keats & Co. goes toward funding tuberculosis care in impoverished countries.
• Immigration advocacy groups sue to overturn President Biden’s recently ordered asylum restrictions.
• Civil and reproductive rights groups file lawsuits challenging Ohio laws that delay abortion patients’ access to their desired care and ban telehealth medication abortion services.
• To reduce racial disparities in breast cancer treatment and mortality rates, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force adjusts their recommendations for when patients should start getting mammograms.
• The Latino Economic Development Corporation promotes economic empowerment and community development among Latino communities and other underserved populations in Massachusetts.
• Central Falls High School in Rhode Island opens a Diversity Garden for science students to care for and have lessons in.
• Sarah Towle’s new book, Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, outlines two decades of U.S. anti-immigration policies, factually countering anti-immigrant narratives.
• Virginia Hislop, 105, earns her master’s degree 83 years after initially enrolling.
• Hillsborough County, FL residents adopt every pet from a local kennel.
• Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney co-write a song in a new generation of Lennon-McCartney collaboration.
• Lawmakers in Thailand vote overwhelmingly to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the first country in Southeast Asia to enshrine the right.
• The late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek will be honored with a US postage stamp.
• A small business in Rhode Island installs air conditioners for senior citizens for free.

Americans of Conscience Checklist HERE

And they have three things "You can Do"

Worried about the state of things in the US? You're not alone.    Take Action Reminder: Be sure to click the "I did this!" checkbox when you complete an action. we tally our collective effort every week. This week's checklist includes: Support increased voter turnout in Black communities. [Action 2] Ensure campaign ads contain only accurate information. [Action 3] Work toward electing the president by popular vote. [Action 4] Today's quote: We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.      - Ray Bradbury

My 78th

This will be a quite day.

Finally out from under the weather from whatever gave me a fever, and then the meds to kill every bacteria known to medicine that might be in my body...but it's fortunately not Covid-19. That doesn't mean it couldn't be another viral infection...but hopefully next week I can get back in the loop.

I'm taking it easy now that my fever has finally broken. Just putzing around the house. Please no surprise party that would give me another heart attack! OK, I'm looking forward to a zoom meet-up with my three sons in the afternoon! Yay.

I just got the link to the Red House Gallery Virtual Exhibit, of which I'm a part. HERE.

Sharing one photo and one quote...and ok, another one too!

How does a single-celled embryo grow up to be a differentiated biological body of organs?

An embryo expands by cell division, making an exact replica of itself with all the same DNA, the same genes. But in the adult body, the cells are differentiated as to their functions. 

... The proteins a cell makes determine cellular function; the genes have the code to make the proteins. ... But the source of the programs is not part of the DNA. 

... Rupert Sheldrake (1981) has shown how nonlocal and nonphysical morphogenic fields are essential to understand biological form-making from the one-celled embryo. The instructions of form-making cell-differentiation (all cells contain the same genes, yet toe cell genes are activated very differently from brain cell genes), are nowhere to be found in the physical body, and that includes the genes (which are more or less instructions for protein-making).
—Amit Goswami
Quantum Doctor

Grateful to still be alive...now what do I do this moment of this wild and precious life?

Today's quote:

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down." Ray Bradbury, born Aug 22, 1920.