I believe in this.....

“DON’T LET WHAT YOU CANNOT DO INTERFERE WITH WHAT YOU CAN DO.” – JOHN WOODEN

     Denver tied our all-time record high temperature at 105 degrees!  I was supposed to mow my lawn........didn't.

Full text of "The Children's Story...but not just for children" by James Clavell

https://archive.org/stream/TheChildrensStory-ButNotJustForChildren/tcs_djvu.txt




“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” 
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

And now a happy share. I love this video of Paul McCartney doing Carpool Karaoki.

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ

NY Times book review, on how the Nazis gained power in Germany

THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY 
Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic 
By Benjamin Carter Hett
Illustrated. 280 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/books/review/benjamin-carter-hett-death-of-democracy.html

As Goebbels put it, “We want to build a wall, a protective wall.”


BTW, over 10,000 migrant children are now in the custody of the US govt.
http://www.businessinsider.com/children-in-custody-trump-administration-immigration-zero-tolerance-policy-2018-5


I care. Do U?

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

(PS  Announced on PBS News Hour, the 2300 children currently being held in cages are not being grandfathered in by trump's executive order.)

Find your tribe!

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure.  There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
                                       Jawaharlal Nehru

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there, especially to mine!

     I'm trying to get back to running again, and it is not coming easily....but I will get there. Today's run was at Waterton Canyon.  There were so many big family groups out celebrating the day by hiking or biking. It was beautiful. I'm sharing this picture from BRC run group.

Home

Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.

your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.

no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.

it's not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did -
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.

you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.

who would choose to spend days
and nights in the stomach of a truck
unless the miles travelled
meant something more than journey.

no one would choose to crawl under fences,
be beaten until your shadow leaves you,
raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of
the boat because you are darker, be sold,
starved, shot at the border like a sick animal,
be pitied, lose your name, lose your family,
make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten,
stripped and searched, find prison everywhere
and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side
with go home blacks, refugees
dirty immigrants, asylum seekers
sucking our country dry of milk,
dark, with their hands out
smell strange, savage -
look what they've done to their own countries,
what will they do to ours?

the dirty looks in the street
softer than a limb torn off,
the indignity of everyday life
more tender than fourteen men who
look like your father, between
your legs, insults easier to swallow
than rubble, than your child's body
in pieces - for now, forget about pride
your survival is more important.

i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home tells you to
leave what you could not behind,
even if it was human.

no one leaves home until home
is a damp voice in your ear saying
leave, run now, i don't know what
i've become.

2000 kids stolen from their parents at the border in less than 2 months in America.

ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody

When does a joke become a dad joke?

When it becomes apparent!

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     (I won't be posting for a while, just an FYI.  Hope you are enjoying summer heat)

Wildlife sighting of the day

     Here is a great horned owl's nest.  The first picture is cropped, enlarged, and fuzzy, but you can make out the three owls. The second picture is the original.  So cool. The owlets are pretty safe up there from all but other raptors, of which there are many in this area, which explains an adult being on guard.