Notices by ginger🫰... 🎶🌻 (tc_morekindness@c.im)

@jeridansky I meant that, in the sculpture, it looks to me kind of like a stream of water behind each figure -- maybe coming from the thing in the middle. I guess maybe they're riveting the iron of the bridge, i.e., they're building the bridge.

@jeridansky Very cool. But what are they doing? Are those streams of water behind them on either side? The one on the right seems to be holding a pole, no, maybe a handle, maybe an ax handle? His pose looks like he's about to chop something. And the one on the left seems to be holding the handle of a tool also. Digging? And what's the thing in the middle with the R? I've been studying this pic; it's v intriguing.

@jeridansky Can't go wrong with Dolly either! I don't think I've heard this one. Is that a thing, a known phrase -- a hard candy Christmas?

Living for the City / Stevie Wonder

A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty

#WhenTimesAreTough
 #JukeboxFridayNight

https://song.link/vr6n2wvjr9rzp

@jeridansky Thanks. I mean, 80F isn't that hot, and I wondered if I was being kind of a princess. (I'm sure it was hotter in the house during the day, but I wasn't looking at the thermostat.) Normally, though, the A/C would kick in before it gets to that point, at the times of year when it's needed -- spring and summer. But I refuse to put on the A/C before it's even spring. I'm standing on some sort of principle, I suppose, but climate change doesn't care about my principles lol. I may need to rethink them...

It's so bloody hot. I have a ceiling fan going, but it's 80F inside the house. It's 75F outside, at 12:38 am. The high today was 86F, which broke the record of 83F.

I guess that explains why I have found it difficult to move. 😮💨

That's all. I wish I had something interesting to report. But...no.

@jeridansky I was thinking about tulips yesterday (?) when making my book list. I was considering a book I really liked, "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" by Susan Vreeland, and I started thinking that there was some other book I liked that touched on the Dutch Tulip Mania in the 17th c. I don't think it's "The Goldfinch" (Tartt) or "Amsterdam" (McEwan). Do you happen to know of such a book?

#AskAQuestion 

#JukeboxFridayNight

I'm gonna pose some deeper questions as I sign off and go to sleep.

--One of Us / Joan Osborne
"What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryna make his way home?"
https://song.link/27jtgw567crbm

--What If / Prince & 3rdEyeGirl (Nichole Nordeman cover)
"But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope
You never dreamed of hoping for?
What if you jump?
Just close your eyes
What if the arms that catch you
Catch you by surprise?"
https://song.link/sqhpbhtnpstx0

--Anyone / Demi Lovato
"I feel stupid when I pray
Why the fuck am I praying anyway?
If nobody's listening...

Oh, Lord, is there anyone?"
https://song.link/0xrxmsvsdxwww

@jeridansky Yeah. Some of the books on there I've literally memorized large portions of, cuz I've read them over and over.

@kimlockhartga

I can't resist making a list. But I cheated and used some of my non-fiction allotment for fiction. I didn't go over 20 total, though. My criterion was mostly what we used in my old book club, where we voted on each book: "pure pleasure." Though the significance of a book may have factored in to a greater or lesser extent.

(unranked)
Fiction:

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving

2. Sometimes a Great Notion / Ken Kesey (I had to put this book down and walk around once when it got too intense.)

3. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee

4. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte

5. Hamnet: a novel of the plague / Maggie O’Farrell

6. A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles

7. Mrs. Caliban / Rachel Ingalls

8. The Professor's House / Willa Cather (mainly the middle section "Tom Outland's Story")

9. The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro

10. The Magus / John Fowles

11. Atonement / Ian McEwan

12. Evening / Susan Minot

13. Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier

Non-fiction:

14. Solito / Javier Zamora

15. Confederates in the Attic / Tony Horwitz

16. The World in A Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization / Vince Beiser

17. How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence / Michael Pollan

18. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey / Jill Bolte Taylor

19. The latest book by Michael Gazzaniga, cognitive neuroscientist (The one that blew my mind I read in the 90s, and I feel sure there have been new amazing developments since then.)

20. Metaphors We Live By / George Lakoff (linguist) & Mark Johnson

@jeridansky I'm not a photographer, and I wasn't sure what he meant by this:

"That particular spot, or this area of the wine region, is known for that same thing -- the rolling hills. I have been photographing them for a long time, with film. And yet colours never quite came out the same on Kodachrome 64, the best film you could possibly have. They were never quite green enough."

So it was the Mamiya camera or a certain type of film that made the colors greener than with the Kodachrome?

Anyway, that was interesting to learn the story of the Windows XP photo.

And hope the rest of your dental work is unproblematic. It is certainly a weird time we're in.

@jeridansky What a gorgeous picture. The composition and the colors.

@jeridansky

> I have 18,534 photos in Apple Photos

😮

Wow. That’s rather mind boggling. And you’re right, I don’t notice the skips because I’m not following the prompts. I just see your photos and how they seem amazingly well matched to the prompts.. Actually, with that many photos, it’s surprising that you don’t have something for everything.

@jeridansky How is it possible that you always seem to have the perfect photo for whatever the prompt is? (I have had this thought many times.)

@jeridansky This map was very confusing to me until I realized that the water wasn't blue. 🤦♀️ I had seen elsewhere that Bahrain was between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Bahrain, so I kept looking for those bodies of water without reading the text that was more easily seen, e.g., Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Mediterranean...

#ThursdayFiveList #ColorfulPictures #ColourfulPictures

This is a second list, very impressionistic, of songs that bring up colorful mental images for me -- often based on personal associations.

1. Chelsea Morning / Joni Mitchell
[I think of those bead curtains that were big in the 60s.]
"Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crimson crystal beads to beckon"
https://song.link/krvb5dcmrjnwr

2. Good Vibrations / The Beach Boys
"I-I-I I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair"
https://song.link/ctkrnnswdwhpz

3. Paisley Park / Prince
[I remember a dress I had with a paisley pattern -- I loved that dress.]
"The girl on the seesaw is laughing
For love is the color this place imparts (Paisley Park)"
https://song.link/w0xtkrfwbvnwh

4. Coat of Many Colors / Dolly Parton
[When I was a child, I had a book of Bible stories. Each story had on the facing page a full-page, color plate illustration. When I hear this song, I think of the image in the book for the story of Joseph.]
"There were rags of many colors...
Momma sewed the rags together...
As she sewed, she told a story
From The Bible, she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph wore and then she said"
https://song.link/6rbgppbwdmbwp

5. Firework / Katy Perry
[I really like this song.]
"Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst"
https://song.link/g7zzwcrg6df8v

@jeridansky Same thing ... scrolling up from the theme post, I was intrigued by Tommy James and even more by Melissa Manchester (such a nice song that I haven't heard in some time). And then I saw whose list it was. Of course. :)

(I should have known from Buffy Sainte-Marie.)

@jeridansky You're killing it! Three great songs!

@jeridansky @chefraven Right. But... isn't SCOTUS supposed to interpret the law, as set by Congress? The legislative branch is first, and that's, at least theoretically, where change should begin. As long as the laws don't conflict with the Constitution. But that may be where the problem lies.

@jeridansky @chefraven

"Senator Kelly also introduced the Ban Corporate PACs Act to reduce corporate influence in Washington by prohibiting for-profit corporations from influencing political campaigns and federal elections."

Accomplishing this would be one of the more important things that anyone could do, in terms of America's future as a democracy. IMO.