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rickehling.bsky.social
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@rickehling.bsky.social
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physician, walker, poet. 🩺🚶✍️ 📷 🌿🌱🍽️ San Francisco 🌅 #poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe. ©, or credited. outrage (when I must).
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 5h
if any democrat politician or their partner dressed like that to a funeral or while grieving, right wing trolls would try to crucify her
all i’ll say is…that’s one choice
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 5h
this is an experiment I could have saved you
…from my past prepping for infusions, an bone marrow transplant, and chemo side effects
the juiciest and most flavorful chicken was always poached (I did the simmer and sit method)

i cut it in pieces so i can’t discuss shredding
rickehling.bsky.social
rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 19h
but what did it taste like?
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 19h
#SFSidewalkHaiku #235
six feet of - not
your mother’s impatiens -
staring down my shears
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/13/2025, 📷 02/02/2025

#Haiku #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California 🌱 #impatiens #gardening
#alphabetchallenge #weekPforPink
Impatiens side ii, poor man’s rhododendron, an African native very common in SF, where it has naturalized. My neighbors’ plants sent volunteers most years.
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 1d
if i were to guess (which i do sometimes), i’d say it has something to do with the president’s country of origin and US government hostility to international students speaking up

he’s from Bangladesh per his Linkedin profile (I’m not even that good at internet stalking).
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rickehling.bsky.social
rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 1d
none of us can
humans can no longer remember ten digit phone numbers
(and that’s before AI, imagine what we’re losing now)
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
costco any day the week before ANY national holiday
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rickehling.bsky.social
rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
i do laugh at Bloomberg calling it an “identity crisis” as if having an opinion is a problem
and honestly either is better than Collins
….i’m personally all for generational change
i don’t vote for many candidates my age anymore (and i’m still pre-Medicare if now AARP)
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
this in the gallery, the de Menil/Rothco chapel, and water lilies room at the Orangerie are really religious experiences
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
i met DD at Dartmouth, his brain was utterly broken before he got there…still i love the thread and it rings true for others
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
so many of us save the worst for an afterthought
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
🙏🏼. this was written years ago, we’re both in better places
but it is a reminder with every new care i take on.
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
i’ve known since we “upgraded” to EPIC (a billing system disguised as a chart)…and the cuts in the horrible reconciliation bill, (many of my patients with lose coverage) 🩺
but i really wasn’t raised to leave a fight
so it’s taken me time to sort and process

the paperwork is finally going in
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
…before the infusion center
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #caregiving 🍜
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Caregiving. Another pot of soup flavored with my tears
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
“just one more thing”
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
© Rick Ehling 📷 09/30/2025
#silentsunday #SkySunday #lookingnorth #theGoldenGate #SanFrancisco #California
autumn comes to the Golden Gate
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
i am shopping for my inflatable NO KINGS costume

…and carving a political jack-o-lantern (and i never decorate for halloween)
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
not sure i want to “recombinate” with that, but it does explain a subset of the people i see on the news (like a certain media tycoon)
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
this phrase was my first profile on Post (but i wasn’t sure how many read the irony)
it only lasted a weekend
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
such stupid times? frontal lobe dementia? both?
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
during college i learned of the Bread and Puppet Theater (a hour or so up the road from Hanover and a summer visitor)

i get strength from the inflatable costumes 🎈🐸
the dolls 🏳️‍⚧️ who continue to dance and sway against so much
the bread, the puppets, the signs

joy or laughter feed courage
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 2d
I.
can an ant
sing like a cricket
retirement

II.
nest stocked
time to learn if
ants can sing

III.
ready to take off
his ant suit
a cricket retires

© Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/12/2025 🐜 🦗🪞 🪩
3 versions on a theme, soon to be tested
#senryusunday #senryu #poetry
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 3d
…the Portland Peep Party
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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 3d
…and yet she voted for the bill that does just that only a few months ago.
she gets a little credit for responding AFTER BEING CALLED OUT….but i want a political class of thinkers, not reactors
rickehling.bsky.social
rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 3d
i’m assuming your invitees loaned you slow cookers/crockpots

i own two (my other half thinks that’s one too many so i saved your table spread photo)
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