Sunday, October 25, 2020

Burn it down?

Like Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize winning author, “I go to sleep and get up in the middle of the night and start checking the news because God knows what might have happened.” 
And I agree with Mary Trump, The Donald’s niece, author, and a clinical psychologist: “My theory about the way Donald has run his campaign is that he knows he’s in desperate shape, so he’s going to burn it all down, sow more chaos and division because that’s where he succeeds”  
The next weeks are crucial. The weeks until January 20, and a new president is sworn in, will be a minefield.
Let’s be careful out there.

News blues…

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The Lincoln Project How To Talk To Your MAGA Friends & Family (3:20 mins)
Meidas Touch: Trump Crime Family  (1:30 mins)

Healthy futures, anyone?

A reminder about our beautiful planet: 2020 aerial photos  
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"Show Me the Monet" sold far above estimates,  
Credit: Michael Bowles/Getty Images 
 Following a nine-minute bidding battle, auctioneers at Sotheby's report Banksy's take on a Claude Monet masterpiece sold for £7.6 million ($9.8 million).
In "Show me the Monet," famed street artist Banksy reimagines Monet's "Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies" as a modern-day scene. 
The picture is complete with environmental pollution: A traffic cone and two shopping carts submerged in the otherwise idyllic scene.
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Greenpeace warns Fukushima water release could change human DNA. 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Domestic worker Martha and I were in total accord with her suggestion we begin each day half an hour earlier and end each day half an hour later. That is, we set the security system to turn off at 5:30am and on at 6:30pm, reducing our overnight shut-in hours by one. That extra hour encourages deeper awareness of our surroundings: bird calls, frog croaks, rustling in the undergrowth as small critters settle in for the long night.
A new week begins on a positive note….


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