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Worth saving: Democracy.
Worth standing with: Imperfect allies.
Worth supporting: Legit journalism, rule of law, economy for people & planet, gov’t for the people.
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
October 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Take regular breaks, go outside, take in autumn colors, smell the air
🍂🍃🍁

#pnw #fallcolors #selfcare #nature
October 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Disney (owns Hulu, abc, espn) is a children’s entertainment company who folded to a corrupt pedophile and his lieutenants. In lead-up to Putin‘s authoritarian oligarchy rule of Russia, he canceled all media comedians who were critical. Playbook
#cancel #abc #disney #kirk
September 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Inner peace creates peace in the world.

#peace #meditation #redwoods #Yosemite
September 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A band of 9 Cal Scrub-Jays stopped by (Western Washington) on their migration south
#PNW #birdfeeders #corvids
September 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Spock: “Fascinating”
Vulcan half of Spock restrains his human half from the human habit of ready, fire, aim upon the alien sentient energy cloud.

Star Trek #TOS S2E9 “Metamorphosis”
September 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Embrace imperfect allies. The opposite is failure.

Try to embrace a few people a day, starting today 🤗 💙 🖖🏻
July 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Does this count? (they were on our bed in Thailand couple weeks ago)
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Official travesty, now remediated…
July 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Was amazing. I took way too many photos there! Here’s one…
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Democratic Party will be so much stronger when we each realize that strength and resilience comes from diverse opinions, perspectives, lived experiences.
…and if we each can resist the temptations of virtue signaling and purity testing.
June 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
June 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Take a moment for simple quiet contemplation—sunset on the Salish Sea.
#pnw #meditation #perspective
June 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
June 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Memorial Day
My own father, rest in peace, volunteered risking life and limb fighting fascism and nazism by flying a P-51 Mustang fighter over enemy territory from a base in Allied England. He never bragged about it.
Heroism 💪🏻✌🏻💙
May 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sword Fern (polystichum munitum) new fronds unfolding after spring rains.
Gratitude moment in the #pnw #garden.
May 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The last time US Federal income tax rates were cut for high earners and then the economy and retirement accounts did better was…


never.
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Rhododendron and Iris—in full bloom. Gratitude moment.
#pnw spring flowers
May 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Native iris
#PNW spring rains
May 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
From my travels: Málaga, Spain traffic control signage.
Meaning, yield to people dancing on piano keys. Always.
May 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sec. Homeland Security Kristi Noem created US-DHS task force scouring social media feeds for foreign students. They won’t stop there. We’re all next, …and we won’t stop resisting 💪🏻💙🦋
May 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
…if you’re not used to fighting losing battles, don’t become a lawyer. Our job is to stand up for people who can’t do it themselves. Justice Sotomayor

Democracy is worth saving! Follow, boost, support these fighters…
@democracyforward.org
@democracydocket.com
@marcelias.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone else in America.“ Senator Chris Van Hollen
May 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM