Doc Hubbard
@jeffhubbard.bsky.social
Dad, Quixotic Wanderer, dharma bum, Environmentalist, Democracy Lover. Ed Abbey, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Trains, the Big Easy, Baseball (SABR) & living an examined life.
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
There is no sincere path a human being can take without having their heart broken.
- David Whyte
- David Whyte
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
There is no sincere path a human being can take without having their heart broken.
- David Whyte
- David Whyte
there isn't enough of
anything
as long as we live. But
at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails
-Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems
anything
as long as we live. But
at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails
-Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
there isn't enough of
anything
as long as we live. But
at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails
-Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems
anything
as long as we live. But
at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails
-Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems
Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough, it ain't no good to pine
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
youtu.be/2xDdME7c3Gk?...
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough, it ain't no good to pine
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
youtu.be/2xDdME7c3Gk?...
Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter
YouTube video by Herman's Hermits - Topic
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December 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough, it ain't no good to pine
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
youtu.be/2xDdME7c3Gk?...
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough, it ain't no good to pine
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
youtu.be/2xDdME7c3Gk?...
So raise your window baby, I can ease out soft and slow
And Lord, your neighbors, no they won't be
Talking that stuff that they don't know
Lord, I'm foolish to be here in the first place
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
youtu.be/d0En8iD2uVI?...
And Lord, your neighbors, no they won't be
Talking that stuff that they don't know
Lord, I'm foolish to be here in the first place
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
youtu.be/d0En8iD2uVI?...
One Way Out (Live At Fillmore East, June 27, 1971)
YouTube video by Allman Brothers Band - Topic
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So raise your window baby, I can ease out soft and slow
And Lord, your neighbors, no they won't be
Talking that stuff that they don't know
Lord, I'm foolish to be here in the first place
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
youtu.be/d0En8iD2uVI?...
And Lord, your neighbors, no they won't be
Talking that stuff that they don't know
Lord, I'm foolish to be here in the first place
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
youtu.be/d0En8iD2uVI?...
History of Native California
YouTube video by Cal Poly Humboldt PBLC
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.”
― St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
― St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.”
― St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
― St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
Trains and Oil | California History [ep.8]
YouTube video by The Cynical Historian
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
But, um, I was told everyone was leaving California because it's a liberal hell hole
“.. Only 1 in 9 people (11%) changed residences last year — a record low in data going back to 1948.”
@axios.com
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@axios.com
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November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
But, um, I was told everyone was leaving California because it's a liberal hell hole
Reposted by Doc Hubbard
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Landscape Scale Dreaming P. 2
Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Reposted by Doc Hubbard
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
It appears as if my friends in the Midwest are getting just a bit of weather…
Take ‘er easy!
Take ‘er easy!
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It appears as if my friends in the Midwest are getting just a bit of weather…
Take ‘er easy!
Take ‘er easy!
Reposted by Doc Hubbard
“The United States was definitely the leader in agricultural research in the entire world, and that’s slipping out of our grasp.”
Cash-strapped farmers, safety net gaps, and inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what for years to come.
Cash-strapped farmers, safety net gaps, and inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what for years to come.
How the federal shutdown broke America’s food chain
Cash-strapped farmers, safety net gaps, and inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what for years to come.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“The United States was definitely the leader in agricultural research in the entire world, and that’s slipping out of our grasp.”
Cash-strapped farmers, safety net gaps, and inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what for years to come.
Cash-strapped farmers, safety net gaps, and inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what for years to come.
Sometimes I ponder the marriage of Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange.
I’d have enjoyed being a dinner guest.
I’d have enjoyed being a dinner guest.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sometimes I ponder the marriage of Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange.
I’d have enjoyed being a dinner guest.
I’d have enjoyed being a dinner guest.
Next year - 2026 my travel dance card is already pretty full.
But... inspired by my amigo @beatgozon.bsky.social and Maynard Dixon's art I think 2027 may be my "Old California Year".
El Camino Real
Steinbeck Country
Lost Coast
Great Central Valley
Desert
High Sierra
Southern Cascades
But... inspired by my amigo @beatgozon.bsky.social and Maynard Dixon's art I think 2027 may be my "Old California Year".
El Camino Real
Steinbeck Country
Lost Coast
Great Central Valley
Desert
High Sierra
Southern Cascades
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Next year - 2026 my travel dance card is already pretty full.
But... inspired by my amigo @beatgozon.bsky.social and Maynard Dixon's art I think 2027 may be my "Old California Year".
El Camino Real
Steinbeck Country
Lost Coast
Great Central Valley
Desert
High Sierra
Southern Cascades
But... inspired by my amigo @beatgozon.bsky.social and Maynard Dixon's art I think 2027 may be my "Old California Year".
El Camino Real
Steinbeck Country
Lost Coast
Great Central Valley
Desert
High Sierra
Southern Cascades
Are you familiar with the great California artist Millard Sheets?
Here's his "San Dimas Train Station".
It doesn't just speak to me... it IS me...
Here's his "San Dimas Train Station".
It doesn't just speak to me... it IS me...
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Are you familiar with the great California artist Millard Sheets?
Here's his "San Dimas Train Station".
It doesn't just speak to me... it IS me...
Here's his "San Dimas Train Station".
It doesn't just speak to me... it IS me...
Reposted by Doc Hubbard
“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.”
— Sean Carroll
— Sean Carroll
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.”
— Sean Carroll
— Sean Carroll
Do you have artwork that portrays your life in a single work? Like this for me?
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Do you have artwork that portrays your life in a single work? Like this for me?
It's not too cold but I saved you a place by the fire anyway for Thanksgiving. Come on over...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's not too cold but I saved you a place by the fire anyway for Thanksgiving. Come on over...
Reposted by Doc Hubbard
It is wild that the LA jails are so dilapidated and dirty that the medical examiner bothers making note of it in autopsy reports.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It is wild that the LA jails are so dilapidated and dirty that the medical examiner bothers making note of it in autopsy reports.
Today under the heading of "I'm so old"
When I was a child, Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic potato -
you had to provide your own vegetable 🥔
When I was a child, Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic potato -
you had to provide your own vegetable 🥔
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today under the heading of "I'm so old"
When I was a child, Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic potato -
you had to provide your own vegetable 🥔
When I was a child, Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic potato -
you had to provide your own vegetable 🥔
My heart is a sad affair
There's much disillusion there
But I can dream, can't I?
Can't I adore you?
Although we are oceans apart
I can't make you open your heart
But I can dream, can't I?
I Can Dream, Can't I? - Chet Baker
youtu.be/qcX8NpokPGw?...
There's much disillusion there
But I can dream, can't I?
Can't I adore you?
Although we are oceans apart
I can't make you open your heart
But I can dream, can't I?
I Can Dream, Can't I? - Chet Baker
youtu.be/qcX8NpokPGw?...
I Can Dream, Can't I?
YouTube video by Chet Baker - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My heart is a sad affair
There's much disillusion there
But I can dream, can't I?
Can't I adore you?
Although we are oceans apart
I can't make you open your heart
But I can dream, can't I?
I Can Dream, Can't I? - Chet Baker
youtu.be/qcX8NpokPGw?...
There's much disillusion there
But I can dream, can't I?
Can't I adore you?
Although we are oceans apart
I can't make you open your heart
But I can dream, can't I?
I Can Dream, Can't I? - Chet Baker
youtu.be/qcX8NpokPGw?...
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Simple Gifts - Yo Yo Ma and Allison Krauss
youtu.be/6aQXvbjfAGE?...
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Simple Gifts - Yo Yo Ma and Allison Krauss
youtu.be/6aQXvbjfAGE?...
Simple Gifts
YouTube video by Yo-Yo Ma - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Simple Gifts - Yo Yo Ma and Allison Krauss
youtu.be/6aQXvbjfAGE?...
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Simple Gifts - Yo Yo Ma and Allison Krauss
youtu.be/6aQXvbjfAGE?...
Happy Thanksgiving
Gratitude from Interlude, Vol. 3 (Gratitude) by Karen LeFrak
youtu.be/h_ItkIXyJ7Y?...
Gratitude from Interlude, Vol. 3 (Gratitude) by Karen LeFrak
youtu.be/h_ItkIXyJ7Y?...
Video: Gratitude from Interlude, Vol. 3 (Gratitude) by Karen LeFrak
YouTube video by Karen LeFrak Music
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
Gratitude from Interlude, Vol. 3 (Gratitude) by Karen LeFrak
youtu.be/h_ItkIXyJ7Y?...
Gratitude from Interlude, Vol. 3 (Gratitude) by Karen LeFrak
youtu.be/h_ItkIXyJ7Y?...
Some strikingly positive Amtrak news:
$2.7 billion in ticket revenue: Amtrak set a new record for ticket sales, increasing by 10.4% from last year. More riders, higher demand, and growing interest all contributed.
$2.7 billion in ticket revenue: Amtrak set a new record for ticket sales, increasing by 10.4% from last year. More riders, higher demand, and growing interest all contributed.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Some strikingly positive Amtrak news:
$2.7 billion in ticket revenue: Amtrak set a new record for ticket sales, increasing by 10.4% from last year. More riders, higher demand, and growing interest all contributed.
$2.7 billion in ticket revenue: Amtrak set a new record for ticket sales, increasing by 10.4% from last year. More riders, higher demand, and growing interest all contributed.