Maybe you have to be a newspaper person to understand why it’s sad to see people like this go, but this morning I’m thinking about Jack Germond. I didn’t know him but I read his stuff, saw him on TV and always liked his style. I suspect he was like some of the others — …
It’s hard to write anything approaching an essay on a workday morning. I can bang out a column for work — during the Legislature, for instance — but that’s with a newspaper deadline looming. Nearing 64, though, I am still sharp on other scores and against some of them I measure my races with age. …
Plus, an Arizona ash joined the desert olives at my place in leafing out in August after recent rain.
Desert olive had no leaves until a few days ago. Drought shut it down. Protectively. Rains revived it. Same with several others around the house. Buffalo grass also returned.
Cool, clear morning after night-long rain. White blossoms on Apache Plume, drought-dormant desert olive showing new, green leaves. Co-pilot happy, encouraged that he can live in his heavy coat. He knows it’s the weekend, too. And I know the days are easing – light and temperature – downhill toward fall.
Aug. 2, 2013 By Journal Staff | 16 hours ago http://www.abqjournal.com/240673/news/july-is-ninthwettest-on-record-for-abq.html July proved to be one of the wettest on record after a pair of storms last week dumped more than 1.3 inches of rain at the Albuquerque airport. Exactly 2.77 inches fell at the Albuquerque International Sunport in July, tying it for the ninth-wettest July since the …
Presidential message: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-income-gap-is-fraying-us-social-fabric.html?pagewanted=all GALESBURG, Ill. — In a week when he tried to focus attention on the struggles of the middle class, President Obama said in an interview that he was worried that years of widening income inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the country’s social fabric and undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity….Upward mobility, Mr. …
Waited for 16 feral horses to come down the hill and pass the house this morning before heading out. Look before crossing:
Launching dreamranch: entering the cloud at sub-warp speed.
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