Hosta [really?!] 🌱
If Trump ever used words to render reality, I never heard it.*
Heather Cox Richardson:
- Trump said that some Democratic states allow people to execute babies after they’re born and that every legal scholar wanted Roe v. Wade overturned — both fantastical lies.
- Trump said that the deficit is at its highest level ever and that the U.S. trade deficit is at its highest ever: both of those things happened during his administration.
- Trump lied that there were no terrorist attacks during his presidency; there were many.
- Trump said that Biden wants to quadruple people’s taxes — “pure fiction,” according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale
*Mark Edmonson, Harpers, January 2023
ducks – elegant and effortless … are eyeing … boatloads of … Dream … swaps
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles: Masterful and enthralling. Vanderbilt in a nutshell, by a contemporary: “The Commodore’s word is as good as his bond when it is fairly given. He is equally exact in fulfilling his threats.”
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“Ya' comin?”
The little ones that don’t look quite red are ‘Sungolds,’ which aren’t supposed to be red, but yellow. (Just sayin'.)
Annie Dillard: “We’ve been on earth all these years and we still don’t know for certain why birds sing… We have been as usual asking the wrong question… The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?”
Around here, pre-July 4th is prime homegrown tomato time. (Beat the heat and the squirrels.) Open-faced toasted sourdough rubbed with garlic and topped with tomatoes, sardines, red onion, basil, a squeeze of lemon, salt & pepper: Boy, oh boy!