Jeffrey Weise
@jdweise.bsky.social
I wish I had been more careful about what I let into my brain, before I had a stroke. Just trying to say “I was here”. On the ground in Colorado Springs.
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
As far as I’m concerned, you should receive some kind of medal, or award for putting up with the President’s harassment. I appreciate—and honor—the work you do. You are a solid, trustworthy journalist.
jeffrey
As far as I’m concerned, you should receive some kind of medal, or award for putting up with the President’s harassment. I appreciate—and honor—the work you do. You are a solid, trustworthy journalist.
jeffrey
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
As far as I’m concerned, you should receive some kind of medal, or award for putting up with the President’s harassment. I appreciate—and honor—the work you do. You are a solid, trustworthy journalist.
jeffrey
As far as I’m concerned, you should receive some kind of medal, or award for putting up with the President’s harassment. I appreciate—and honor—the work you do. You are a solid, trustworthy journalist.
jeffrey
Now I have to spend the rest of the day thinking about this. Circles and loops—I wonder how to untie this mess of a knot.
“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.” ― Anne Carson (Translator), 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Now I have to spend the rest of the day thinking about this. Circles and loops—I wonder how to untie this mess of a knot.
I’m elevated when I’m standing in the woods and I can understand the difference between silence and stillness, for example. Sometimes it’s still but it’s not quiet. And sometimes it’s silent but it’s not still.
Barry Lopez
The work of a lifetime. Or two.
Barry Lopez
The work of a lifetime. Or two.
September 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I’m elevated when I’m standing in the woods and I can understand the difference between silence and stillness, for example. Sometimes it’s still but it’s not quiet. And sometimes it’s silent but it’s not still.
Barry Lopez
The work of a lifetime. Or two.
Barry Lopez
The work of a lifetime. Or two.
One of my everlasting dilemmas.
"Choose wisely when to disagree with someone, often it is not worth it." -III
August 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
One of my everlasting dilemmas.
This world is amazing; this country is complex and troubled. T___p is corrupt.
I walk with
those who sing in all
angel voices.
I walk with
those who sing in all
angel voices.
August 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This world is amazing; this country is complex and troubled. T___p is corrupt.
I walk with
those who sing in all
angel voices.
I walk with
those who sing in all
angel voices.
www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
Every American—especially those in elected office—must spend some time at Manzanar. This is cyclical and—here it comes again. It’s not enough to be aware. There are still citizens among us who were held there. Independence & Freedom need refreshing.
Every American—especially those in elected office—must spend some time at Manzanar. This is cyclical and—here it comes again. It’s not enough to be aware. There are still citizens among us who were held there. Independence & Freedom need refreshing.
Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one ...
www.nps.gov
July 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
Every American—especially those in elected office—must spend some time at Manzanar. This is cyclical and—here it comes again. It’s not enough to be aware. There are still citizens among us who were held there. Independence & Freedom need refreshing.
Every American—especially those in elected office—must spend some time at Manzanar. This is cyclical and—here it comes again. It’s not enough to be aware. There are still citizens among us who were held there. Independence & Freedom need refreshing.
@rockies.com
Every division, every league, needs a team like the Rockies. An owner with more money than brains, a fan base with more spirit than discernment, a good history of futility. Managers hired—then fired—with no real rhyme or method. Batter up!
#Rockies
Every division, every league, needs a team like the Rockies. An owner with more money than brains, a fan base with more spirit than discernment, a good history of futility. Managers hired—then fired—with no real rhyme or method. Batter up!
#Rockies
June 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
@rockies.com
Every division, every league, needs a team like the Rockies. An owner with more money than brains, a fan base with more spirit than discernment, a good history of futility. Managers hired—then fired—with no real rhyme or method. Batter up!
#Rockies
Every division, every league, needs a team like the Rockies. An owner with more money than brains, a fan base with more spirit than discernment, a good history of futility. Managers hired—then fired—with no real rhyme or method. Batter up!
#Rockies
People born here are citizens, period.
June 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
People born here are citizens, period.
I’m not sure that Grant saw the hellacious conflation that “patriotism” would take with superstition and ignorance. That’s not “ambition”, that’s wallowing in the mud.
In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875
June 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m not sure that Grant saw the hellacious conflation that “patriotism” would take with superstition and ignorance. That’s not “ambition”, that’s wallowing in the mud.
Reposted by Jeffrey Weise
If Trump cared about democracy he would help Ukraine.
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If Trump cared about democracy he would help Ukraine.
Has anybody seen my elephant? He has something of a sweet tusk and he took off headed for town.
A hungry and mud-caked wild elephant surprised shopkeepers at a grocery store in Thailand this week, ransacking shelves in search of food.
Bull in a china shop? No, it's an elephant in a grocery store
The shop owner said Plai Biang Lek the wild elephant helped himself to about 9 bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich and some dried bananas before leaving with a bag of snacks in his trunk.
nbcnews.to
June 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Has anybody seen my elephant? He has something of a sweet tusk and he took off headed for town.
I’m no political science specialist, but pettiness and narcissism is really no way to run a country. Especially combined with lackeys and hucksters.
June 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’m no political science specialist, but pettiness and narcissism is really no way to run a country. Especially combined with lackeys and hucksters.
Reposted by Jeffrey Weise
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
June 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Zebra crossing: Zebra filmed on the loose in Tennessee
Zebra crossing: Zebra filmed on the loose in Tennessee
A zebra, described as a pet, is still running free after after being filmed on 31 May galloping on a road in Christiana.
www.bbc.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mr. Muir was far ahead of the rest of us. He studied at the “University of the Wilderness”; we still have quite a ways to go to catch up to him. I, for one, continue my studies, trying to tie everything together.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”― John Muir, 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢
May 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Mr. Muir was far ahead of the rest of us. He studied at the “University of the Wilderness”; we still have quite a ways to go to catch up to him. I, for one, continue my studies, trying to tie everything together.
I can’t think of anything other to do this morning except going outside to sit in the sun, hoping a fresh wind will cause airflow through my earbones.
May 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I can’t think of anything other to do this morning except going outside to sit in the sun, hoping a fresh wind will cause airflow through my earbones.
In their Goldwater cum Reagan lizard brains, “they” jumped in the pot & turned on the burner. The next-generation schemers & plotters are building the scaffolding, hoping to cook the rest of us. Endgame? Some kind of revelatory rapture.
Something I think about every day is if we rolled back the clock to say 1989 and told your average Reagan republican what the GOP is doing and has done in the year 2025, I think the vast majority of them would immediately take up arms. But instead, they were frogs boiled in a pot.
May 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In their Goldwater cum Reagan lizard brains, “they” jumped in the pot & turned on the burner. The next-generation schemers & plotters are building the scaffolding, hoping to cook the rest of us. Endgame? Some kind of revelatory rapture.
Perhaps I’ll take all of my grandchildren
to Disneyland in a camper but probably not.
Jim Harrison
The Theory & Practice Of Rivers
Fortunately, Jim Harrison still sings. A great poet; there are women who live in his fiction I know personally. That shelf is very heavy.
to Disneyland in a camper but probably not.
Jim Harrison
The Theory & Practice Of Rivers
Fortunately, Jim Harrison still sings. A great poet; there are women who live in his fiction I know personally. That shelf is very heavy.
May 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Perhaps I’ll take all of my grandchildren
to Disneyland in a camper but probably not.
Jim Harrison
The Theory & Practice Of Rivers
Fortunately, Jim Harrison still sings. A great poet; there are women who live in his fiction I know personally. That shelf is very heavy.
to Disneyland in a camper but probably not.
Jim Harrison
The Theory & Practice Of Rivers
Fortunately, Jim Harrison still sings. A great poet; there are women who live in his fiction I know personally. That shelf is very heavy.
There’s a poem in here; if I squint just right I’ll find it.
People who can finish their shampoo bottles at the same time as their conditioner bottle should be in charge of everything.
May 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There’s a poem in here; if I squint just right I’ll find it.
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
May 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Don’t be a mountaineer, be a mountain.
And shrug off a few with avalanches.
Gary Snyder
Lookout’s Journal
And shrug off a few with avalanches.
Gary Snyder
Lookout’s Journal
May 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Don’t be a mountaineer, be a mountain.
And shrug off a few with avalanches.
Gary Snyder
Lookout’s Journal
And shrug off a few with avalanches.
Gary Snyder
Lookout’s Journal
You can see the spittle coming from his near-rabid lips.
April 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
You can see the spittle coming from his near-rabid lips.
April 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.—Henry David Thoreau
I have the power of one life to oppose—to stand against—the corrosive forces at work in this country. I am about this work diligently.
I have the power of one life to oppose—to stand against—the corrosive forces at work in this country. I am about this work diligently.
April 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.—Henry David Thoreau
I have the power of one life to oppose—to stand against—the corrosive forces at work in this country. I am about this work diligently.
I have the power of one life to oppose—to stand against—the corrosive forces at work in this country. I am about this work diligently.