From this morning’s walk…

SUNOCO gas station canopy with pumps underneath. Early AM. Scene illuminated by canopy lights.

Globe lighting fixture on side of white brick building. Shot looking up. Windows of the building disappear into the shadows at the top of the frame.

Courtyard of a bar/restaurant with illuminated sign showing graphic of flying saucer above the door, giant human skeleton in the shadows to the left.

… this sign amuses me… it reads to me like an invitation to having your car keyed…

Illuminated sign with a house key and car key, the former left to right, the latter right to left. “KeyMe” is written above the two keys.

A few from this morning’s walk…

Uranium glass goblet illuminated by black light. Other green glass dishes and glasses in background.

Car illuminated by street light. Tree and mountain in the background. Dawn sky at the top of the frame.

Book store front, early in the morning, illuminated by lights in the store.

Succulent plant in a window casting shadow on the folds of a curtain. Dim illumination from street lights.

An entry light beneath roofed entry to building on the left illuminates the pavement in front of it and a van parked on the right side.

We went to meet our new niece’s new daughter yesterday…

Portrait of four caucasian people, three adults, one baby, two adult women, one adult man.

Portrait of four caucasian people, two adults, one toddler child, on baby. One man, one woman.

How is it that so many good minds diagnose capitalism as the central problem, for women in particular, but everyone really, and nothing can be done about it?

There is no way—none—for anyone in this society to make a great deal of money without exploiting other people. (bell hooks, Feminist Theory)

What has to be faced now by women and men together are the life-threatening excesses of the culture of greed, of brutal, unbridled corporate power. (Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique)

Are greed and lust for power baked into the Patriarchy? Are Patriarchy and capitalism synonymous? Co-dependent?

There is a curious lack of political signs in the places we go. NY, CN, NJ… liberal states because of urban areas, but deeply conservative in rural areas. We are seeing very little overt expression of political preferences. Fear, exhaustion? What do you think?

From this morning…

Food delivery truck in front of Key Food supermarket in the early morning.

How interesting nature is sometimes… put your web in front of a security light that will attract flying insects?

Intelligent placement of spiders web in front of insect attractive security light.

I’m from this morning…

Moon, branches and foreboding sky.

Fascist to the core…

October 27, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

But the biggest sign of the damage the rally did was the frantic backpedaling from Republicans in tight elections, who distanced themselves as fast as they could from the insults against Puerto Ricans, especially. The Trump campaign itself tried to distance itself from the “floating island of garbage” quotation, only to be met with comments pointing out that Hinchcliffe’s set had been vetted and uploaded to the teleprompters.

October 25, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

Musk’s SpaceX, which operates the Starlink satellite system, won a $1.8 billion contract with U.S. military and intelligence agencies in 2021. It is the major rocket launcher for NASA and the Pentagon, and Musk has a security clearance; he says it is a top-secret clearance.

… something doesn’t seem right here… not that Musk isn’t a disturbing human being… isn’t this something our own intelligence services would have known about?… or certainly should have?… why is NASA all of a sudden saying it is concerning that Musk talks to Putin?…

A commitment to spiritual life necessarily means we embrace the eternal principle that love is all, everything, our true destiny. (bell hooks, All About Love)

…I have begun to doubt the “love is all” proposition, much as I love bell hooks…

Niels Bohr: ‘it is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.’ (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

… it’s not possible to know all the ways we impact those around us… we can only know if we behaved with honesty, integrity, and compassion… if we have done that most of the time, then our impact will be significant, even if we don’t know it…

Last night around rhe Todd Rundgren Concert there was a man from Amsterdam, or was it Copenhagen?… we chatted before concert began… he said Europeans are astonished our election is so close… i told him 50% of Americans are too…

Hoping the rumors dems are slipping in blue wall states are intended to energize the dem base…

October 21, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024)

… the line between democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age, or nationality. “Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote… “But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis,” she wrote. “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”

Night Of The Living Dead checked off our horror film watch list…

Just finished watching The Mist… wow!… that was thought provoking apocalyptic horror… Marcia Gay Harden brilliant in role of religious zealot.

I like your dress,

… says the trans woman behind the vegetables at the farmers market. I have had this knee length sweater dress for almost a year now and this is the first time anyone read it as a dress. Most people take the less discordant view that it is a tunic. It’s the small things that can make us happiest.

Awesome lunchbox for Halloween!…

Metal lunch boxes in a store window. White box with “Human Organ For Transplant” in red letters stands out in the lower left.

From this morning…

Key food supermarket sign in background, white car bathed in yellow security lighting in foreground, compacted cardboard recycling in mid ground. Vintage photo effects applied.

A good time was had by all…

Overflowing street garbage can with vintage photo effects applied.

Cue Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

The new diggs of my favorite coffee shop… i understand we will be moving in before end of year.

Interior of a coffee shop space nearing completion. Blond wood strip flooring and cabinetry.

Selfie from this morning…

Selfie in a tv screen in a shop window.

From this morning…

Political banner for Kirsten Gillibrand on a chain link fence illuminated by a streetlight.