how long those sculptures will last underwater. I picture an alien visitor far in the future, long after we are extinct, stumbling upon them. Especially the banker.
I also share your thoughts on Hecate. Unique writing style.
Even though I lived nearby to Costa Mesa, I regret to this day missing out on that festival.
I had a major crush on Cher in that day. Had just graduated La Puente High School (yay).
I'm becoming optimistic the future is looking brighter and a new world order is about to begin, brought about by Putin, Xi, and other sane world leaders.
A return to a U.N. based "international rules based order" that ends the millennium long rule of the European born oligarchy and the brutal western hegemony.
We only need to curb the "scorched earth" whackjobs living among us. If they are in a hurry to get to heaven, let them go on ahead of the rest of us.
We'll be along in our own time, thank you very much.
Thanks for the OT.

That picture reminds me of a dream I had once but I can’t remember it…but it touches something in my psyche.

Thanks!

I’m heading up the canyon to Heber city and then back up it tomorrow to go camping again. Looks like we’ll have some more thunderstorms over the weekend. It’s monsoon season, but not like I used to remember it. Not as much moisture but we will take what we can get.

I’d rather be in the backseat of EL's car going to the coast.

about Kansas and preserving their constitution on abortion rights. Massive turnout, esp for August, with a resounding 59-41 victory for the anti-authoritarian side. As this was KS and not VT, there is still hope for sanity to prevail. Although I suspect the Rs running the state legislature will now try to undo this vote by other means.

Troubling news from AZ, as the Rs have nominated a real piece of RW-libertarian whack-job, MAGAist and Trump-endorsed, election and climate denier in one Blake Masters, protegé of RW Libertarian Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal. Masters in a recent interview stated that "Black people, frankly" are the cause of gun violence in America. He has already been mocking opponent Sen Mark Kelly's past as a Nasa astronaut. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/blake-masters-peter-thiel-d...

This will be a back-alley gunfight, with Masters bringing an AR-15, his preferred weapon, with the usual far-right issues on tap. The soft-spoken moderate Kelly will need to fight back accordingly, and not pull a Mike Dukakis. I am pulling for despite his too-centrist positions and for the spouse sympathy (husband of Gabby Giffords), and to keep a dangerous nut job authoritarian out of the senate.

as snoopydawg says.
I had a visit with a pal I have known since I was 4 or 5 years old. He was one of my older brother's close friends, and our parents were friends.
Now, he is farm, ranch, Viet Nam Vet, a bit of oil patch, then back to the farm and ranch. Neither he nor his wife have more than high school education. He remembers coming to our home to spend the night, and Mom would force him to get a bath. She scrubbed him down. He wasn't taught to bathe in his home. We even kept a toothbrush for him. He wasn't taught to brush. His son, like some bolt of lightning from the sky, got a college degree in art. He has been the curator of huge art museums around Houston, and is now in Savannah, Georgia. And that cowboy dad sat there and marveled at what he himself had learned about art, and how it had enriched his life.
My friend regrets our kids are taught all things tech, not pushed toward what they love, what they excel at doing. That is one proud cowboy right there. He had to apologize that his boots were not shined.