We were sailing on that boat two year ago in French Polynesia, the island is Bora Bora. It’s hard to believe how much has changed since then. We may sail away again.

Happy thought for the day: The saguaro cacti are budding and blooming in the Sonoran Desert springtime.

Today 70 years ago a group of school children would be vaccinated with the new Salk polio vaccine by Dr. Charles Hawkins, a country doctor in the small town of Spring Grove, PA. It was a great day, a liberation day, because there had been so much

This was a favorite time when I lived in PA, with snow and ice still on the ground the snowdrops pushed through. Right now I could use some spiritual snowdrops pushing through the dystopian darkness.

look at how badly the measles outbreak is being handled. But never fear they have cod liver oil for you. Resist, complain to your senators and Reps.

An ominous sunrise in Tucson today, sort of hemorrhagic.

This is the SS United States, after thirty years of rusting in Philadelphia it is being towed away to Alabama where it will be prepared to be sunk as an artificial reef, a feeding ground for fish. It was once the way to cross the Atlantic, it still hold the title for

2-20-25 Sunrise over the Rincon Mountains, Tucson, AZ. No matter how bad it gets a good sunrise offers renewal.

It has been dry in the Sonoran desert this winter, the usual winter rains have not materialized. The ocotillos are not covered with the tiny green leaves they get when it rains…yet they have bloomed. They will get their seeds made and their DNA to the next generation. Life goes on.

Tucson sunrise 1-25-24

A sigh that we will need mean even more after January 20th.

The picture shows the strangling angel, which is what diphthria was called before there was a safe and effective vaccine. As we move into the 18th century with the Trump adminiatration the strangling angel may return thanks to RFK Jr.