Myra, No Longer in Hawaii

I heard it is #superbowl Sunday This visitor came to our house and sat on a post and let us film. Superb!

The hamburger buns at the health food store are too dense and wheaty, even for me.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Picture taken from a plane, high up. Flying over the Golden Gate Bridge.

On my way home.

So pretty! I also find quilting highly therapeutic.

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

A Hawaiian Monk Seal is sound asleep on a beach, with ocean in the background.

What Myra does in Hawaii.

We planned this trip last summer when it seemed like a good idea. Now, elder issues have come up and it might not be a good idea but the trip is paid for and non-refundable. Perhaps it was a very good idea.

Traveling today to a tropical island. Maui, then Molokai, our favorite. Feeling lucky, hoping to put thousands of miles of ocean between ourselves and the grief. So much heaviness.

Handsome bird!

In Northern California, where we normally get sporadic freezes beginning in October, I just picked a perfect green pepper out of last year’s garden.

Oh dear.

😳 OMG

I live in the West so I’m just catching up. My health insurance premium is $2,000/month, and we’re running Venezuela?

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

It’s Christmas Eve, the day we Americans await our president’s social media screed where he calls us haters and losers. Merry Christmas!

He is such a good human. Why are almost all* of the billionaires such terrible ones?

(*invoking the Mackenzie Scott exception)

MAHA Wins

Wordle very tricky today. Tricky, indeed.

Screenshot from NYT: Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him. The performing arts center is by law designated the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and it has been generally understood that the power to change the center's name lies with Congress.

Can no one stop this vile man? “It is not clear if he participated in the vote, and he claimed soon after that the whole thing was a surprise.”

Does it look to anyone besides me, that there is a hidden pay-for-pardons scheme?

Many will not be able to afford their health insurance premiums, will have no choice but to go without. This will end badly for some and result in medical debt and bankruptcy. From first-hand experience, ovarian cancer costs about $180,000 the first year.

Health insurance is unaffordable. We are going to pay $2,000/month beginning next year. This takes a big bite and will displace so many other things we need to do, like putting a new roof on our house. This is an economic drag on many sectors, will have ripple effect. It’s English major economics.

A Christmas ornament, Santa-like, but a bird, with sparkly wings and a beak, hangs on a Christmas tree.

Proof that drugs are not new.

Bah humbug!

Handsome, speckled bird!

I looked at cute baby things online because I am going to be a grandma and now the internet thinks I’m pregnant.

The color for this year was a kind of shit brown so they are continuing to get it right

So comforting to know Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are ON IT!

That is just amazing! I haven’t
conquered FPP yet.