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Milestone It’s a big day in a boy’s life when he gets his very own Medicare card.
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Texas Harvest It never seems like it in August, but there are upsides to gardening in a hot state.
Sun Gold cherry tomatoes
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Urgh Possible book plate for ““Ex Libris Jim Rain”; I like it, but I’m creeped out that it’s AI generated from a prompt I gave. (Esp. because my daughter is an illustrator. What does this bode for her?)
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Ya’ Got Me I’ve become convinced that this election isn’t really about Harris and Trump. But I haven’t figured out what, exactly, it is about. (I mean, I know what it’s about for Trump, but I don’t know about Trump voters. Or the country.)
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What Makes a Good Citizen? Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts creator):
Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call “American Virtues” who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.
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What’s the Problem? … you might conclude that this country has a leadership problem. But it doesn’t. This country has a citizenship problem.
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I Love Astertide 
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Morning Has Broken 
(That’s Jupiter, I think.)
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