Remember with Trump, it's always projection, although making the connection in this case is slightly harder than most.

When he whines about the smell of cities (lord knows what he's talking about -- the food trucks in Portland? the flower market in LA?), he is mistaking the distinctively fecal smell of his own body for the streets of NY, Chicago, and all the great cities.

#USPol

💯 Why every media person isn't camping out outside the doors of McConnell's home is beyond me. And yes, on the scare quotes for "public servant."

Or, as #Dickinson said, who has been on my mind a lot these days:

Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/

#USPol
#Poetry

Affluent is the key word. Access to these third spaces has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for many, many people struggling to pay for food, healthcare, rent, the necessities of daily life.

On the loss of third spaces, the detrimental effects on health, and the "science of small encounters." I know how fortunate I am to have a garden. Add to the list, the small encounters I get to have with flowers and passersby.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/bars-bowling-alleys-movie-theaters-090000273.html

#USPol
#Economy
#Gardening

Mood: "A lane of Yellow led the eye"

A lane of Yellow led the eye
Unto a Purple Wood
Whose soft inhabitants to be
Surpasses solitude
If Bird the silence contradict
Or flower presume to show
In that low summer of the West
Impossible to know -

#Dickinson
#Poetry

For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's that Sound and the Fury)

#RockAndRollSongsABook
#HashTagGames

Play it as it lays lady lay

#RockAndRollSongsABook
#HashTagGames
#DidionandDylan

Hard Times they are a-changin'

#RockAndRollSongsABook
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