i ❤️ 🎵 hiking 📚 ⚾ & an aussie dog. lifelong liberal tom petty radio addict uwyo grad. 🔵, east of laradise ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• here i stand at the edge of my embattled illusions, looking into you. ~jackson browne
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😞 RIP Graham Greene ♥️
my clock radio in h.s. it was so very cool.
The world when it finally happens.
Fucking Petty and Harrison. Dig it. #Musicsky youtu.be/1o4s1KVJaVA?...
hope they put on a show for you. if not, it's still a lovely place. i've encountered grouse there and wolves just down the road. of course, every place in yellowstone is wonderful.
go to trout lake and watch the otters.
#parkchat
he's a fascist.
i was fortunate to see him perform live. gone way too soon. 💔
just like the lavish digs jesus and his apostles shared. 🙄
#parkchat
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
peace to snickers. comfort to you. 💙
Guns may also be contributing to gun violence.
i remember the morning after the uvalde shootings, i was working at a school. 3 2nd graders who regularly came to my office for a break, chose to sit under my desk while they played a game. they'd never done that before. it moved me to tears. i feel for all those in school this morning #minneapolis
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Demetre Daskalakis was a key figure in the Covid, mpox, and bird flu responses. This is a huge loss.
excellent #parkchat tonight @pamportland.org . many thanks!!!
tom mangelsen and i grew up on the same street in the 60's. #parkchat
a11 i'd take my granddaughter to yellowstone. we took our kids ( including her dad) there many times. he has yet to take her and i'd just love to be with her on her first trip there. #parkchat
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a10 we couldn't go to mt. st. helens monument last summer (road closed due to fire). but we compensated by going to the visitor center that the state operates just off the interstate. #parkchat
the jams they sell there are also delicious. #parkchat
a9 it's happened. not usually a good thing, but once took the wrong trail and saw a huge elk. #parkchat
a8 the ranger at zion who told us to drive 30 miles to the kolob canyons area of the park. spectacular views and no people! #parkchat
yes!
a6 hiking the bottom of the canyon in mesa verde. no ruins there, but beautiful forest that was surely appreciated by the ancient folks who lived there. #parkchat
a4 north cascades. we just showed up and wandered. in a less-visited park, this works. #parkchat
my daughter in oregon said the same. she stopped there on the way to meet us in yellowstone a few years ago. #parkchat
that's a warren zevon song. 😀#parkchat
a3 i have a couple, but if i share them, they aren't a secret anymore.😉 #parkchat
a2 i share whatever i can, depending on the park. it's usually about the best hikes, since that's my thing. #parkchat
you were an expert guide re: barbed wire when we met up. #parkchat
hello from my front porch with deafeningly loud cicadas. i just spent a week in wyoming. i'm an expert at where to drink the best beer in laradise. #parkchat
it can be very helpful for people, including children, to talk about trauma as soon as they are willing to. if parents gave consent, i don't see the problem. the shooting is what's ghoulish, not the victim talking about it or others hearing about it.
why not hire "4 seasons total landscaping" instead ?
she was wonderful (and still gorgeous) many years later in 2004's "finding neverland."
tom courtenay's memoir looks interesting. #tcmparty www.f-b-a.com/product/dear...
watching any early 60's british film, it's easy to understand why the "angry young men" actors became a thing. #tcmparty
best opening credits ever #DrZhivago #tcmparty
fun fact: despite all the wonderful performances in #Dr.Zhivago, tom courtenay's was the film's only oscar nomination for acting. (he lost to martin balsam). #tcmparty #SummerUnderTheStars
if i cared any less, i would cease to exist.
pet peeve of mine: most all the women in wwll movies made in the 60's have 60's hair/makeup/clothes. #tcmparty
peter o'toole giving a certain panache to o.c.d.-ness. #tcmparty
true. "lawrence of arabia" + "dr. zhivago" would take up over half the day. 😉
swoon!
no shit?
Not a single Republican who will defend our country or its constitution from this fat piece of shit.
as a kid, i saw the wonderful hammer films with cushing and lee at a neighborhood theatre that featured them for sunday matinees. i'm getting a craving for the sour cherry candies from the concession stand. #svengoolie
💙✊🏼 support local farmers markets
yep. trump will bill the taxpayers and then keep the $ for himself.
Guess Bolton should have testified in Trumps first impeachment? Cowardice has consequences.
their grisly remains are almost as terrifying.
the californians are going to save our democracy. 💕
yes. left us way too soon.😥
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Consider it twisted, yes, but I cannot help but finding sick, nostalgic comfort in a 4-3 Yankees-Red Sox game taking almost 4 hours in the pitch clock era. Life has few constants remaining. This game taking ungodly long is one of them.
re-grassing? 🙄
NEW: Gov. Gavin Newsom comments on California's new maps moving through the California legislature
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on social media(X) that federal border agents will be assigned to NPS sites as part of the broader federal law enforcement push in DC. He said the Interior Department had authorized a “service-wide deputization” of Customs and Border Protection
I don't like to celebrate the death of people, but if you lead a life where you make claims of being a "godly" person and then make it your mission to hurt as many as you can through hate, we are ALL glad you're gone. apnews.com/article/jame...
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." - Carl Sagan
Count me in as an “elderly white hippie” who knows a right not exercised is one more easily taken away. Keep protesting brothers and sisters. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
GAVIN NEWSOM
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Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
Here’s a way to help preserve American history before they try to re-write that, too. If you can read cursive, you can join me in becoming a Citizen Archivist for the National Archives. Check it out: www.archives.gov/citizen-arch...
What it looks like when a Hobby flies straight at you! 😲👀😍 #birds 🪶 Taken at Shapwick Heath in Somerset. 🐦
he's subhuman
F*ck all this. F*ck concentration camps. F*ck making cute nicknames for concentration camps. Not in my name, not with my tax dollars. I have a lot of health problems but I *will* live long enough to see Pillen and his puppetmaster Ricketts stand at the American Nuremberg trials & receive sentences.
the cicadas are so loud tonight, i can't hear myself think.
since texas now treats their state representatives as political prisoners, we have abandoned future plans to visit #NationalParks there. we don't care to vacation in a fascist hell hole.
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Political Hostages held by MAGA terrorists!!! www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...
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or maybe it's just a terrible state.
PBS Passport for $60 a year and well worth it. As they say, defunded but not defeated. Please consider donating to your local PBS station. They need you!
229360Titan- getting no chances- will probably be killed fast if we don’t find him an East coast foster! Precious boy has 1pic/no vids/no hope unless we step up! He will be your best friend/protest partner- but not if he’s dead-he says Big Balls attack-staged- REPOST! 🚨‼️Urgent
Sweet baby Judge233476-who thinks the Big Balls attack was staged- was told if there’s not an East Coast foster is found- he will be murdered @nycacc.bsky.social he’s so stressed in this place he’s not acting himself- I need 2save him! Pls repost him! #dogsofbluesky
i remember. we thought we'd hit bottom in this country. who knew, those were the good old days. 🥺
Fifty-one years ago today.
#parkchat
words of thomas jefferson:
all the best!
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