My first print out of 14 Days by the Sea, an accordion book I am getting ready for a show this summer. 100.5 inches when not folded. Three copies.

Red flag warning?…

Morrocan Lamb and Chickpea Stee

This is pretty easy and pretty flavorful.

By age two the average American starts to develop brand loyalties, and by age three we can recognize more than a hundred corporate logos, a number that grows to a thousand by the time we’re adults.

—Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred

www.smithsonianmag.com

The Ancient Origins of the Easter Bunny | History| Smithsonian Magazine

Happy chocolate bunny day!

Talk about unexpected juxtapositions, a big, burly, grey bearded man was in yoga class this morning. When I walked out to the parking lot there he was climbing on to a Harley. It would never have occurred to me that biker dudes and yoga went together.

From yesterday…

The overreach is painful in the moment but I am exuberant about it because it will be the downfall of the radical right. May the left be wiser in their deployment of power.

Quite a show going on at the Tennessee legislature. One Dem expelled. Likely the other two will be. Huge protest.

From yesterday…

Trump Is Depraved, Deranged, and Doing Real Damage - The Atlantic

recently wrote that Trump was behaving like a mob boss. That comparison turns out to have been insulting to mob bosses everywhere

‘60 Minutes’ Was Right to Have on Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that Democrats are “pedophiles.” Including Joe Biden. She said it. Right there on 60 Minutes on Sunday night for the whole country to hear. And when she said it, the interviewer, Leslie Stahl, responded only with “Wow,” and “Okay.”

My wife made me this lovely Norwegian Success Cake for my birthday cake, which I learned about right here on M.b!

My new saucier! Birthday present from my wife. Now I have to get saucey!

Now, if these were 58 flights of stairs in a building, I would never make it. Walking up the side of a mountain? Whole different story…

First birthday agenda item complete (assuming I get back down). Climb up to the Beacon reservoir.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

–Robert G. Ingersoll

lithub.com/sarah-bak…

April 4, 2023 (Tuesday)

Wisconsin voters elected Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a ten-point margin.

Yes! Take that you gerrymandering mofus!

About the Supreme Court of Wisconsin judge election.

Right now it’s all about 45’s perp walk, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge election is more important in mho…

The real story is the Supreme Court Judge election in Wisconsin, not the indictment of cheeto-man…

From yesterday…

Brick wall with brick protrusions casting shadows.

From yesterday…

From this morning’s walk…

How Much Does Happiness Cost?

For the truly impoverished, whom the book suggests have less than $10K/person/yr income, on average, in the United States, any increment in income brings a substantial increment in happiness. Once the $10K/person/yr threshold is crossed, further increase in income brings a marginal increase in happiness. When the threshold of $30k/person/yr is reached, additional income brings no increase in happiness.