Sons and daughters of Edward Abbey:

Please don’t carry black Sharpies with you in the National Parks.It would be so easy to accidentally add a discreet dot or 3 to the QR code and gum up the process of getting US citizens to turn informers. Wouldn’t want that to happen, so: NO SHARPIES. Pass it on.

So Teddy Budd is owning DOGE. You know what to do. (Phone number in the text.)

Annoy a MAGAt; eat at the La Montañita taco truck in front of Ingles In Hazelwood. Times are hard right now, and your business will mean a LOT to them.

Resistance can take many forms. Sometimes it looks like a taco. (Also, they have fresh handmade pupusas on Thursdays and Fridays.)

NC friends: I talked to Tom Tillis’s office and they said they are getting hundreds of calls this morning about the E-Mu data theft. Even if you’ve been feeling blocked, this might be the morning to make some calls or reach out on websites. (I asked for his detailed plan to protect us from E-Mu.)

In La Mexicanita yesterday I came across this memory from childhood: Communion wafers stuck together around sweetened condensed goat’s milk (cajeta.) Only a lot of self-control got me out of that store; so delicious, at least in memory.

Even with the abomination in the White House, streptocarpus blooms.