@theeflowerchild.bsky.social
I write about #cleanenergy by day, everything else on evenings & weekends. Semicolon lover; will fight for the Oxford comma. A real Flower Child, my name for the generation some call Jones. More at flowerchild.substack.com. NO CRYPTO OR RANDOM DMs.
This one will go fast โ you may already be too late.
But if not, this beauty in Palo Alto, California could be yours โ for just $3,200,000. A bargain at a mere $2,195 per square foot!
For more, see this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/have-i-got...
What do the stories of the Epstein files and Gisรจle Pelicot tell us about our society? And what can we do to keep these stories from repeating?
For my thoughts, see this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/facing-the...
True. Heโs just tired of switching platforms all the time โฆ
14.02.2026 20:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I asked Cory Doctorow about it a while back, and he figures Bluesky will eventually become enshittified even though good people are running it who don't want to enshittify it.
10.02.2026 19:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
It started innocently enough. Like so many others, in early 2022 I was introduced to Wordle and started playing it every day.
But it turns out Wordle is a gateway drug.
For more, check out this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/hello-my-n...
In our neighborhood, to report a pothole we use an app available in many cities across the nation, SeeClickFix.
When SeeClickFix works, itโs great.
But I found there's a dark side to it.
For more, see this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/wtf-seecli...
I get information there I havenโt been getting elsewhere, and there are some people there Iโve become attached to who are only there. I know, that must sound lame. Iโm trying to come over here more and need to build a better list of people Iโm following here.
01.02.2026 07:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
And call NOW to urge your representatives to defund ICE! Very easy and quick using instructions at this link: 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
29.01.2026 02:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
You know times are crazy when I agree with the NRA.
Read this week's Flower Child to learn why: flowerchild.substack.com/p/wait-i-agr...
While I felt weird this week writing about anything other than fascists taking over our country, Iโm told writing is an act of resistance. And fascism tends to be rigid, ceremonial, and highly structured โ what you could call formal.
flowerchild.substack.com/p/lets-get-c...
We all want to be happy, donโt we? Of course we do.
Yet pursuing happiness can be counterproductive. Maybe instead of pursuing happiness, we should pursue the feeling of being alive.
More in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/feeling-al...
Definitely talk to the Clean Coalition โ but I haven't been with them for a few years now! Well, four years. ;-) Also could be interesting to talk to people working on EcoBlock in the East Bay.
07.01.2026 00:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Everything in our culture tells us we should specialize. Avoid being a generalist, a dilettante, a jack of all trades and master of none. But the world is so full of a number of things!
More in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/a-number-o...
2025 gave us a lot to talk about. Rather than recap all the important stuff as the year draws to a close, today Iโd like to turn your attention to something you might not consider so important: fonts.
But they're more important than you might think! flowerchild.substack.com/p/whats-in-a...
Hera has always been depicted as the jealous wife of Zeus.
It wasnโt till I arrived on the Greek island of Samos, birthplace of Hera according to local tradition, that I heard a different story.
More in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
When we write about our parents, weโre writing about ourselves. The more I think about my father, who died a year ago, the more I excavate about myself.
More in this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/my-father-...
These days, I donโt work 40-hour weeks โ although Iโm not retired! Yet the recent four-day Thanksgiving weekend was still such a welcome break.
Will it still feel this way when I'm retired? I don't know.
More in my latest Flower Child post: flowerchild.substack.com/p/holiday-time
Last week, I wrote about how much harder life feels in the U.S. than when I was growing up in the 1960s and โ70s. The same week, Michael W. Green wrote a viral article challenging the poverty line. My take in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/modern-hom...
02.12.2025 17:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Life is easy and convenient in the U.S. compared to many other countries. Yet people are living with much greater unease.
As the ease keeps getting easier, the unease keeps getting uneasier.
More in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/ease-and-u...
โIf you are a person of influence in this country, maybe itโs time to pick a fucking side.โ
Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This cannot stand.
IMPEACH this psycho NOW!
Fifty-five years ago (!), when I was nine, fourth grade was getting off to an amazing start.
My eyes were being opened and my brain was shaken up. It was the first time I remember having an awakening in my life.
More in this week's Flower Child: flowerchild.substack.com/p/when-i-was...
Nothing can make you feel old faster than not understanding kids today. Take six-seven. Or 6-7. Or 67 โ but always pronounced six-seven, never sixty-seven.
No one knows what it means โ even the kids
But does that matter? flowerchild.substack.com/p/six-seven-...
On this Election Day, policy is on my mind.
It may not be the sexiest subject, but it deeply affects our lives at every level.
That's true, of course, for #cleanenergy, the area I work in.
More in this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/policy-is-...
Love it!! Especially the reaction of the moms and the neighborhood.
03.11.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Death transforms the way we see people, bringing a new poignancy to everything about them.
How can we learn to appreciate what we have with the same intensity that we value whatโs lost?
More in this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
Because Iโm traveling, Iโve been taking a ton of photos, which has got me thinking about โ you guessed it, photos!
Storing all those photos in the cloud uses up a lot of energy.
More in this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/taking-pho...
Rafael & I have been needing light entertainment. So weโve been watching the old TV show Lovejoy, just what the TV doctor ordered. With so much to escape from these days, anything heavier feels like too much to take.
More in this week's Flower Child:
flowerchild.substack.com/p/a-longing-...
This week, I took my body from San Francisco to Paris. That got me thinking about bodies once more, so I thought Iโd repost this piece from a while back.
I keep coming back to the feelings I expressed here.
Three years ago on September 27, I started writing Flower Child, which examines lifeโs persistent questions from the perspective of the hidden generation between the Boomers and Gen X: flowerchild.substack.com/p/happy-birt....
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When I was young, the age of 64 meant nothing to me โ other than some vague idea about extreme old age from a Beatles song.
What can I expect as I continue aging? Who knows, who knows. But so far, so good. I hope we can shift our cultureโs view of aging.
