KRIS JENSEN

This week's tulips...

If you're in the South Bay, please stop by the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles tonight between 6-9pm for the First Friday Art Walk! It's free and a lot of fun. Be sure to say hi!

Small purplish-blue flowers with a yellow center growing from green and white variegated leaves.

From my walk earlier...

My doc had me do a blood test to check for the antibodies. Thankfully I was good.

Well, that's new. I'm working remotely from a cafe today and in the course of about 10 minutes I had a photography student ask to take my photo and a professional artist ask me to model for a portrait class. I never expected that.

A bouquet of light pink tulips in a clear glass vase. In the foreground is a bowl of pears and kiwi fruit. In the background in a blue and white woven wall hanging in the mid-century modern style with various other art, an easy chair, and a reading lamp.

Flowers for the week (and kiwis too)...

I get the joke but it’s really not all that funny. ALT text is a way for folks with visual impairments to experience the internet. When you post something like this you’re encouraging others to do the same and making the internet much less accessible to people who need it as much, as you.

A red camellia blossom at the forefront with green camellia leaves smaller red camellia buds.

From my walk...

A bouquet of red tulips in a clear glass vase next to a white ceramic bowl decorated with blue and yellow circles and other shapes filled with pears of different varieties. In the background is a blue and white woven carpet wallhanging and other art.

Tulips and pears for the win!A

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings):
Life Expectancy: 46th
FreePress: 42nd
Healthcare: 30th
Education: 26th
Happiness: 23rd
Freedom: 17th
What the USA is #1 in:
Military Spending
Number of Billionaires
Incarceration
Bankruptcy filings
Medical debt
Gun deaths
Funding israel

A prickly pear cactus with very small pinkish fruits with a white fence in the background.

I've not seen prickly pears so small...

I took beginning Russian at 7:30am. That clearly wasn’t one of my smartest decisions. Ugh.

A California fuchsia in full bloom with red flowers with white tips.

From my walk...

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.

It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

Two dark pink protea flowers with the green protea leaves in the background.

From my morning walk...

Please share. 💔

From my morning walk...

A red camellia with glossy green leaves in the background.

From my morning walk...

ICE and Border Patrol agents must be reined in. Here is one thing we can do right now. Please read and share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-gestapo

Glad to have you here.

This week's flowers...

ICE must be abolished and their employees prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There must be NO pardons for the "healing" of the nation.

10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026 Your activism will be even more important this year

robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...

Happy New Year!

A clear glass vase of white hydrangeas centered, with a bowl of kiwi and tangerines in the foreground and a blue and white mid-century modern textile wall hanging and a Christmas tree in the background.

Flowers for the week...

Happy Festivus to all who celebrate!

A photograph of a pink camellia blossom with a small bud to the right. The background includes glossy, dark green, camellia leaves.

From my walk last night. Isn't it too soon for camellias?

A photo of the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris that has been closed for renovations. This is an exterior photo showing light blue and green pipes running vertically, with three much larger white pipes curved at the top as if they were for ventilation. There also appears to be some scaffolding.

From my morning walk...(unfortunately this is closed for renovations)

A photo of Rodin's sculpture, the Thinker, at the Rodin Museum in Paris.

From my morning walk...