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Thanks, Santa!
December 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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An excerpt from a letter by Teddy Roosevelt to the Kansas City star , SEDITION, A FREE PRESS, AND PERSONAL RULE May 7, 1918 The Administration has been gravely remiss in dealing with such acts. Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where the people are themselves free. Our Government is the servant of the people, whereas in Germany it is the master of the people. This is because ​the American people are free and the German are not free. The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
May 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Inspired by @alfie.photography to revisit some memories from Mexico. From November 2020, in Ajijic, Jalisco.
July 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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When my mom would visit Ono and I in Tokyo we would often take short road trips to the mountains or the countryside, and she would shout with delight every time she saw a roadside grove of bamboo: “BAMBOO! BAMBOO!” Mom’s refrain remains strong, I belt it out w/joy & think of her every time 😁
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Sou Fujumoto’s Naoshima Pavilion
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Okay, time to post something! Since I’m stuck in the hospital recovering from a hip replacement surgery, I’ve been dreaming a bit of planning another trip up to Aomori. These snaps are from my last visit in Nov 2023. Missing #Tsugaru!!
June 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM