*funds hospitals

I have been writing GOTV postcards for her with @tovoters.bsky.social I really like the campaign’s key message: “Make sure Tennessee feeds kids, finds hospitals, and fixes roads.” Hoping for the best.

Great blue heron, I think. It was wading picturesquely until I spooked it.

Love the Freudian typo.

When my daughter was an infant the doc had us give her Tylenol every 6 hours and Motrin every 6 hours on an offset schedule so she got something every 3 hours. Which required keeping a notepad by the crib since parents were sleep deprived and had no brain, but worked well.

I think this is true. And, not training ourselves that way, we can fall into a nature=good, human=bad dichotomy analogous to spirit=good, flesh=bad. But as CS Lewis said, “[God] likes matter. He invented it.” Of course there can be bad built environments, but good ones are a form of co-creation.

I have to work harder to find nature, so perhaps I think more about it.

Looking at my reading for things I would call urban spirituality, there’s not much, but a few. Fr Greg Boyle. Nadia Bolz-Weber. And not explicitly spiritual but very much on topic, A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit.

You’ve given me something to think about; thanks for that. It seems similar to a balance between contemplation and action. Nature is the call to contemplation and listening. Urban society is the call to active love of my neighbor. In my suburban life, my neighbor is there whenever I open my door. +

His books are similar, in that they are based around horse racing and the protagonist has integrity and courage. But the individual books are identifiable and memorable because of the setting or secondary career. There’s the one with the Canadian train, the banker, the artist, or the movie star.

I reread Dick Francis books, but not that often. I gave a stack of them away a few years ago but kept half a dozen favorites.

I have been writing postcards with @tovoters.bsky.social for 5 years. Their cards have to be hand written with the campaign’s key points and hand addressed. Apparently it gets people’s attention because it’s so uncommon now to get hand written mail. Last time I sent personal ones was years ago.

I forgot the Jewish space lasers but had her mentally tagged as beyond flake and into loon territory.

And thus I had the reaction recently of “huh, I agree with MTG. Who’d’a thunk it?”

But that’s not the same as thinking her rehabilitated and I hadn’t bothered to figure out her motives.

One of L Sprague de Camp’s books references a historical figure called King Filoman the Well Meaning

Also, Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor.

I am very fond of many on your list. I recommend Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier and its sequels. Secondary world fantasy, good people trying to do the right thing but with cultural differences not always in agreement on what that is.

136. On the Hippie Trail, Rick Steves. Summer 1978, not-yet-a-travel-writer Steves, age 23, traveled with a friend on the “hippie trail” from Istanbul through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal to Kathmandu. Buses, trains, planes, and meeting people. Lightly edited journal from the trip.

135. The Adventure of the Demonic Ox, Lois McMaster Bujold. Reread. Reading the new Penric got me dipping into some of the older ones.

Lentil and chicken soup. This is an instant pot recipe but it also has a link to a stovetop version.

www.skinnytaste.com/instant-pot-...

Thank you, I was wondering.