The picture is of a plant named lyreleaf sage. This plant is all over my backyard and I have, in the past, tried to transplant it. I must be doing something wrong! I do believe it died in all the places I’ve transplanted it. Every year, it spreads and spreads. This year, I have learned how to use Google Lens, so I googled it. Seems to be hardy; it grows back after being mowed; it spreads and spreads; the flowers are what caught my attention years ago when I first noticed it in the yard. I shall try transplanting it into the barren spot in my lily bed. So far, I have transplanted two types of wild daisies and another flowering weed that I will google when it blooms. Maybe one of these flowering “weeds” will like that spot.
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My irises are doing well! My mother had two beds of irises, but they were blue…the color of the iris that is Tennessee’s State flower. None of my irises are that particulr shade of blue.
The flowering weed I mentioned has bloomed and I googled it. 
This is Ornithogalum umbellatum, commonly known as the garden star-of-Bethlehem, grass lily, nap-at-noon, or eleven-o’clock lady. This flower was originally cultivated, but it has become naturalized across North America. Fun lore–the flower was created from fragments of the star of Bethlehem. Different cultures have connected the flower to their beliefs regarding purity, hope, atonement, and reconciliation. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
I saw a video of Hungarians standing in line to vote. Want to know what I noticed? Most of them were looking at their cell phones. Maybe this should be known as the Age of the Cellphone. The same behavior worldwide. That cannot be good for us as a species. Good news…the Hungarian fascist dictator was voted out. I have some concerns as the opposition party that won is led by one of the dictator’s former(?) minions. Power corrupts….not just absolute power. Time will tell what reforms the incoming party will put into place. With these males, any power corrupts and, nowadays, there are many, many wolves who bleat as sheep.
I’ve finished my Star Trek binge. Picard, Discovery, and Strange New Worlds…I’m current on the Star Trek that I’m interested in. Really not into the cartoon or the show about Starfleet Academy. I wonder if any of these shows will ever have the understanding and then the gumption to tell white people that they will not populate the universe. Their environmental adaptation of lack of melanin will preclude them being able to be successful long term space travelers. They will be the first to succumb to the different and unknown forms of radiation that will be encountered in space. Really just another cosplay for them that boosts their fragile and tenuous hold on reality. We have to see through the cosplay for what it is.
If only white males are to be hired, then only white males should be on the front lines of any war. The poor white males do not know history and don’t know what’s coming for them. When will the poor whites learn…the rich whites don’t fight. They don’t send their children to fight. But…poor whites…the rich always sucker them in to fight their wars. They think they’ll be one of them one day…there has been no war where that thought has been realized. Body bag for them and a drunken party for the rich men’s children.
I wonder what the six Catholic Supreme Court Justices think about the monster they created threatening the Pope. Also, threatening them by showing up at the oral argument in the 14th amendment birthright case. In the movies and the television shows, don’t the monsters first feed on their creators? That’s one thing one can learn…monsters have no loyalty…only the urge to feed.
I have to talk about the columbine I planted years ago. It has spread all over the front yard. This year it showed up in a pot. If it wasn’t so pleasing to look at, I’d call it an invasive weed. For now, I sigh and let it spread wherever it pleases.
Patriotic Millionaires is a group of business leaders and investors who are deeply concerned about historic levels of inequality and the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America. The mission of the organization is to build a rich, stable nation by promoting public policies based on the “first principles” of equal political representation, a guaranteed living wage for all working citizens, and a fair tax system. https://greateconomyproject.com/ The Equal Tax Act and the Working Americans Tax Cut Act which are backed by this organization are being considered by Congress. I think this is a realization by these millionaires that in order to make money and retain money, there needs to be a stable economy. But they are fighting against a group of oligarchs who are making money from a regime that is funneling money from the citizens into their bloated pockets. The more chaos, the more the oligarchs are enriched. The oligarchs own the representatives (federal, state, local) who do not represent the citizens who voted for them. They represent the “donors” who fund their campaigns and who enrich them for doing the “donors” bidding. These oligarchs will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo, i.e., pay no taxes and their continued enrichment at the expense of the taxpayer.
Seems like there are some Tennesseans who have some moral fiber and backbone. The Regime wanted to build one of its “prisons” in Lebanon and the residents made it clear it was not wanted. For now, those plans have been shelved.
Why is an incompetent, ignorant, emotionally immature white male better than anyone else on the planet? How can one’s brain twist logic and lack of beneficial outcomes into top of the pyramid aspiration for others?
Seeing a Black woman working for ICE was jarring. I know that a number of Black people agree that immigration is a problem. They’ve drank the Kool-Aid of misinformation. Immigration, whether through legal or other channels, helps the economy, helps the government maintain safety-net benefits because they pay taxes, And, guess what…they receive no benefit for those taxes. They are an example of persons who are taxed and have no representation. If those who drank the Kool-Aid of misinformation were honest with themselves–they would admit that they do not want the labor intensive, back-breaking jobs of picking fruits and vegetables, of working in the meat processing plants, of working in hotels and motels as maids…the jobs, we citizens do not want to perform.
The persons who have named themselves “white” want a country where they are not reminded of their vicious cruelty, the monetization of needs, their failure as human beings–why would any of us help them create that country? But we do. Because there will always be those of us who prize their acceptance over our own humanity. They are the ones who believe that they can only exist in that bubble of approval…otherwise they are nothing. Those are the ones we must shun, let go… We must see them as they see themselves in the mirror every morning…white with blond hair and blue eyes.
I wonder if the Black males who seek public office with their blonde wives by their sides—do they ever realize that Barack Obama who was elected twice as President…his wife is Black. I don’t see any of those with their blonde wives…as President. Like I said before…I applaud the 80% plus of Black males who continue to choose the Black woman as their partner.
Two ripe strawberries–I saw, I picked, I ate. So no picture of the first strawberries of the season!
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April Showers…Bring May Flowers; Except–climate change…No April Rain! (Me)
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