Smiles are nice, but being actively anti-hate is nicer.

(The darker one is more “naked eye” the brighter ones are camera-enhanced.)

Frankly, though it's not quite the night I would try to revisit if this were my personal version of "Our Town," it's awfully close. 🧡

3/3

- My husband in his office doing something on his computer while listening to opera.

- The dog wandering back and forth between us to make sure we're both where we're supposed to be, then taking short naps.

2/3

My hope is that, though I may not be thrill-seeking today, my life never gets to the point where I think *that* is a showstopper.
3/3

Related (I promise) - The photo is of something referred to as “kind of a showstopper” by someone in a meeting. (To be fair-ish, it’s one of a pair on either side of a gate.) (Does that make it better or worse?)
2/3

(It's the introductory sentence from Harris Center for Conservation Education's page about the so-named pools.)

Luftballoons, obviously.

*I suspect that all of that bad news had really been getting bottled up and just needed an outlet.