Some of my best memories of the outdoors were simply lying on a blanket and looking at the night sky. Peaceful and quiet, I always found imagining myself so small in an immense universe comforting somehow. For millions of years people have stargazed and imagined the wonder of our universe. I wish we, as a people, treated it better.

Thanks for the picture and the poetry.

And everyone

Mind blowing poem. Who wrote it?

Thank you for that. Off for a walk in the pogonip to hug a redwood. Overcast now. No doubt to clear later to hot and dry.

Have a good one, all..,

This should be an essay by itself, maybe someone wiser than I
might go for it

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dr-seuss-satirized-america...

Dr. Seuss
has long stood as a beloved figure of the American experience: Cat in the Hat (1957) and Green Eggs and Ham (1960) remain two of the best-selling English children’s books of all time. His fantastical characters and sing-song rhyming have stoked childhood imaginations for decades. But before he became an acclaimed author, Dr. Seuss was also a political cartoonist, creating images that commented on isolationism in the lead-up to World War II—and which are also deeply resonant with our current moment.
Beginning just after the start of World War II, Dr. Seuss (whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel) created more than 400 political cartoons for the liberal-leaning New York tabloid PM. But due to the newspaper’s relatively small readership (at five cents a copy it was many times more expensive than other papers of the day) and that Dr. Seuss sometimes downplayed his political leanings, these works remained little known.
Even the artist’s widow, Audrey Geisel, was unaware of her late husband’s political cartoons until the publication of historian Richard H. Minear’s 1999 book Dr. Seuss Goes to War. Minear says that Geisel came up to him after a lecture on the book, which resurfaced some 200 of Dr. Seuss’s political cartoons, and expressed her surprise.
A number of those cartoons, which have resurfaced in recent weeks, focus on the 1940s isolationist movement known as “America First.” The phrase has more recently been marshalled by the Trump administration as a slogan for its populist foreign policy agenda, which puts the interest of American people before all others.

the beautiful and haunting photo.

Didn't get back in last week, but, thanks for the White Coat Update. (fingers crossed that all will proceed well)

Back to the Excel Spreadsheets! (I can't stand dealing with them more than 15 minutes at a time, which is why I haven't gotten the project done. Not my forte! )

Storms, off and on, here. But, at least, it's cooling off a tad.

Take care. Everyone have a nice weekend.

Mollie

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”
~~Roger Caras