yesterday i was grateful for the lentil, vegetable, turkey soup i had for dinner…
today i am looking forward to my colleagues at the cemetery…
yesterday i was grateful for a safe trip home and to be home…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne and resuming my Beacon routines…
yesterday i was grateful for a great mac and cheese soup recipe…
today i am looking forward to going home to Beacon…
yesterday i was grateful for the last two episodes of Friends and Neighbors, watched with Holly…
today i am looking forward to getting ready to go home and making a mac and cheese for dinner tonight, which Holly thinks her mother will enjoy…
yesterday i was grateful for my mother in law Marilyn feeling better…
today i am looking forward to hunkering down with Holly during the storm…
yesterday i was grateful for Dick’s Fish and mussels with linguine for Marilyn…
today i am looking forward to dinner at Ely’s with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for an early morning walk from Southeast Lighthouse into town and back, a walk on Mansion Beach with Holly and the dogs and leftover chicken soup that Steve and Diane made before they left…
today i am looking forward to going with Marilyn to her discussion group…
yesterday i was grateful for cocktail hour at the Hartnet’s…
today i am looking forward to a low people day…
yesterday i was grateful for a long walk on the beach at sunrise…
today i am sad to see our friends Steve and Dianne go…
this evening i am looking forward to virtual photography salon…
yesterday i was grateful for a walk in Rodman’s Hollow with Holly, Steve and Dianne, and the Chowda Fest at the BI Maritime Institute…
today i am looking forward to a beautiful day on BI…
yesterday i was grateful for Steve and Dianne’s cooking and company…
today i am looking forward to the chowder fest at the Block Island Maritime Institute…
yesterday i was grateful for the warmth of friends and a fire in the fireplace…
today i am looking forward to coffee at Persephone’s, and showing the island to S&D…
yesterday i was grateful for the arrival of S&D…
today i am looking forward to being warm and dry on a stormy day…
yesterday i was grateful for a quiet night in the cottage…
today i am looking forward to the arrival of S&D…
yesterday i was grateful for Odd Fellows Cafe and a new pair of walking shoes…
today i am looking forward to a nice morning walk amidst the beauty of Block Island and time with my mother in law…
yesterday i was grateful for the resumption of routine and the beauty of Block Island…
today i am looking forward to more island beauty, and walks with dogs and wife…
we arrived on Block Island yesterday…
some shots from early this morning…
yesterday i was grateful for a safe arrival on beautiful Block Island and dinner with Holly and my mother in law…
today i am looking forward to a lazy day with dogs, wife and mother in law…
yesterday i was grateful for Amy at Sonny Nail Salon and an acceptable resolution to an issue at the cemetery…
today i am looking forward to a morning walk, coffee and preparing for Block Island…
I get complimented on these glasses at least once a day, usually by total strangers. Sometimes multiple times a day. I feel like the world could end if I ever loose or break them…;-)
yesterday i was grateful for a spa afternoon at Beauty Ritual and Music of and with friends at the Towne Crier…
today i am looking forward to Saturday chores and maybe a jazz concert…
These characters – #Heracles, Perseus, Jason, Theseus – were often subtly, or unsubtly, co-opted to offer models of #male-virtue for their young readers. The females were frequently relegated to the background as defenceless virgins, vicious monsters, or grotesque old women.’
—Jennifer-Higgie
–The-Other-Side
are there women super heroes that do not embody the male-virtue warrior archetype?… can we center a woman super hero who does not default to violence to save the world?… would Mother Teresa be such a woman?… Frances Perkins?… others?… must heroism always involve violent acts?…
Catholic church chooses its response to trump, trumpism, and authoritarianism…
Prevost’s choice of the name Leo invokes the principles of both Leo XIII and his predecessor, Pope Francis. In his own lifetime he has aligned himself with many of Francis’s social reforms, and his election appears to be a rejection of hard-line right-wing Catholics in the U.S. and elsewhere who have used their religion to support far-right politics.
yesterday i was grateful for restorative yoga with Maryanne and a delicious Kashmiri lunch at Fisa, Danbury Fair Mall…
today i am looking forward to a spa afternoon at Beauty Ritual then joining D&S for a Bruce Molsky concert at the Towne Crier…
a profound turning point for humanity?…
Mastering artificial intelligence while dominating global communications would go a long way toward breaking down existing nations and setting up the conditions for a brave new world, dominated by tech oligarchs.