I just noticed something. Scrolling through the Bluesky posts, the variety of topics was large but absolutely nothing irked me. It all made me feel ... perhaps not elated, but overall calm, non-defensive. Like being at home should feel. The opposite of doom-scrolling. Thanks for that.

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

Strength & honor, intelligence, integrity & courage, with beauty thrown in for good measure. What's not to like?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQ8...

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
I think Canadians would do well to review this exchange between John Turner & Brian Mulroney from 1988. Seems far more prophetic right now than it did at the time.