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I was incredibly lucky to take the above photo. I don’t have a fancy camera and the bee was still enough for the picture not to be fuzzy. As I’ve said before, usually the bees are feasting on the ornamental sage. Maybe this bee wanted another taste treat! Make it make sense. The government is…

I don’t understand Black people, especially Black males. I saw a blurb where a Black male who happens to be a preacher, said all the tactful things, then said he hoped a white misogynist racist was with Jesus. Really…Jesus would welcome the evil male who would piss on the “Other” lying on the side of…

A Luddite is a person who does not readily adopt new technology. At least that’s my definition because I am not opposed to all new technology. However, I am slow to adopt new technology. Anyway, a long, long time ago, at a crafts fair, I bought a broom from a person who made brooms and…

The butterflies like the zinnias. I saw three different kinds of butterflies, including the one pictured, in the zinnias. The bumblebees like the ornamental sage. Mind doodle–The oligarchs, the corporations have decided there are too many people on this planet. What happens when people in power decide there are too many people. Why? People need…

The Northern Lights, Sprites, Lightning–all so beautiful, so awe inspiring, so captivating. These phenomena can also be bellwethers of maladies that affect our Earth. Questions remain unasked when the populace is ignorant. With many, these phenomena may as well be caused by magic or a disgruntled god holding a scepter. This Earth speaks to us,…

Appliances have a shelf life. Nothing lasts forever. However, do they all have to fail in the same short period of time? They weren’t bought at the same time. I admit most of my appliances are decades old. So far, the quality of the replacements is iffy. I bought a new oven and, out of…

I live next to what I call a swamp. It’s not. It’s a man made gully where water stagnates and mosquitoes breed. The mosquitoes are large and voracious. The City will not treat the area because of the depth of the gully and the steepness of its banks. The city’s equipment was not made for…

Last year, could have been the spring of this year, there were a number of tiny bumblebees that had just hatched (Do bees hatch?) buzzing around my monkey grass. I thought that was a sign that there would be plenty of bees for pollination. Maybe not! On this hot August Monday, there were reports of…

At every family reunion, we have some pithy words for our tee shirts. At one of the family reunions, in the 1990s, I think, the saying was–Because they were, we are. I wonder did they think about their lack of power, how they were targeted by laws that criminalized normal human activities, how life could…

On Sunday, I was inside and lamenting that it had not rained as forecasted. The sun was shining, it was late afternoon, time to water my plants. I opened the door, and, behold, it was raining–the devil was beating his wife–that’s what we say when it is raining and the sun is shining. It was…