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[Jules @julesb1865]

@RepMeuser I had no idea of the controversy involved. I went today and Pennsylvania’s pavilion was packed with people, who stayed to look at the exhibits and take pictures with their children. It was an exemplary exhibit.

[Jules @julesb1865]

And after you’ve shot and shot and shot, you need to take time to compare, curate, and label. Or you can dump all 4,000 pics from your weekend trip to Baltimore in a file labeled Baltimore (review)…for when you have weeks of free time.
That said, the ability to capture unexpected moments in every day life is something I am grateful for.

The truck loaded with pollen, half done with its task, its operator hauled home for dinner, made my day.

[Jules @julesb1865]

I think I am disqualified from this conversation on a number of fronts. I have actually become allergic to oats; I didn’t know what an oatmeal cookie was until college; and my spouse believes there are only three types of cookies: small chocolate chip, medium chocolate chip and large chocolate chip.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@gregcello We would love it!

[Jules @julesb1865]

@icreatelife

[Jules @julesb1865]

Thank you for sharing this.

To teach your children not just the meaning of love but to instill in them a “knowing” that they are worthy of consistent love is as close to a guarantee for a happy life as any parent will ever create for their child. The knowledge of unconditional parental love creates self worth, strength derived from that self worth, and openness to love others. There have been so many times I was in a bad situation but I knew my feet stood upon the foundation of my parents love and so would find my way.

[Greg Cello @gregcello]

https://t.co/rTGNoSu6Ek

[Jules @julesb1865]

It really was. It is carefully displayed indoors. We were not prepared for the size as its is housed in a building. I do not know if the man to the lower left succeeds in adequately showing how large this ship is. There are several viewing levels so that you can get a marvelous view of the many carved figures and intact details of the ship.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@JamesLucasIT We went to the museum, bought a ticket, but without a clear understanding of what was behind the entrance doors. It literally took my breath away.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@acambridgediary As always masterful capture of light.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@japan_nobunaga It depends on what the bill is for - $100 dinner with a $400 bottle of wine poured by the sommelier would not automatically warrant $120 tip.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@japan_nobunaga B, Washington DC - often 20 percent is the starting option, and not infrequently there is no service involved.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@gregcello My father-in-law used to say, half jokingly, that the invention of air conditioning ended the Republic because it allowed Congress to stay in DC all year.

[Jules @julesb1865]

If you haven’t read Jay Winter’s “Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Great War in European Cultural History” it is short and might be useful in fighting this exclusionary art that primarily affirms the taste of a few.

Winter’s very carefully charts that the need for collective solace and meaning after the Great War required reviving and adapting traditional frames of reference and could not be met by new modernist sensibilities. He remains correct.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@Gentleman_Ways Always, all year round, even when we are not traveling. During COVID, we became aggressive about it. People began writing back. Now we regularly get postcards from many people whenever they travel.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@gregcello There are so many different every day things I would like to turn back the clock for, sometimes even just 25 years. May you have a a cool and breezy day even in July!

[Jules @julesb1865]

@gregcello I really do understand the desire, but the impression I gained from earlier posts is that you are not living in an older home? That makes turning the clock back harder - you will be burdened by architectural features you would not have had a century ago.

[Jules @julesb1865]

@FreddyLA7 If you have the time, Tulsa has a startling number of beautiful Art Deco buildings.

[Jules @julesb1865]

There is a place in South Carolina on Palweys Island that has changed little in a century - the Sea View Inn. We sleep with windows open to the sea and blinds up to let the dawn in, if we have not risen to wait for it on the cool sand. It’s the first place I experienced the shift change between night and morning, the moment the night becomes silent and the days chorus has not yet begun.

[Jules @julesb1865]

What a marvelous find!!! I now want to know what kinds of patterns are inherent in these papers. Do they show particular trends in research topics? (Each generation has its own). What did the scientists end up doing? Did their work progress through their own or someone else’s research. Are there abandoned topics that would serve someone today as a spring board? 😁

[Jules @julesb1865]

I think across the country, people adapt to their space. If you live in New York City, you walk quickly everywhere you can. It would be reasonable for some to question your sanity if you announced you were going to drive, as it could take an hour to go 4 blocks.

In Las Vegas, you have the other extreme. Enough of the year it is extremely hot. There is little shade. On a business trip, feeling trapped in overly air-conditioned air, I decided to walk around the hotel. The weather was perfect and there was a sidewalk, but I was stopped four times - twice by security and twice by drivers asking if I needed help. The following day, I drove to a park to walk, err, hike.