Hero Holocaust

 

Sir Nicholas Winton,

rescuer of 669 Jewish children

during the Holocaust died today at 106.

(BBC)

He did his bit.

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flag

"This flag is coming down today!"

South Carolina Statehouse Confederate flag taken down by Brdee Newsome

today .June 27th 2015.

Good job.


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Groundhog Day

Here is a quotation from an essay by Austin Kleon concerning the artist or creative person:

Pretend you are Phil Conners in Groundhog Day

"...There's no tomorrow, there's no chance of success

there's no chance of failure, there's just the day

and what you can do with it."

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Dalai Lama 80

The Dalai Lama celebrates his 80th Birthday today

in Dharamsala, India.

You have done well, Tenzin Gyatso.

Thank you for everything.

I hope I am around to wish you a happy 90th!

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Black people murdered

President Obama, June 19, 2015.

Nine black people were murdered

in a church in Charlotte, NC by a young white man

who wanted to start a "some kind of civil war".

All of us are sad.

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Pope Francis letter

Pope Francis, CNN news June 19, 2015.

 

 

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology,

has made a clear statement that he believes the current global warming

and the ecological degradation of the earth, "our home", 

is caused by us--humanity.

I am glad he has made this bold and unprecedented statement 

since he speaks

to motivate his millions of religious followers 

to become better stewards of the earth.

persistent jet contrail early morning June 19 2015 Paso Robles, CA.

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conspiracy?

My photo June 17, 2015, Paso Robles, CA about 0900.

After five days without persistent jet contrails,

yesterday was  back to pollution as usual.

All day the high-flying jets were spreading their stuff over the sky

and by evening the sky was gray with whatever it is

they are spraying.

I am an older person--I remember the first jet airplane my 

schoolmates and I had ever seen from  a school yard in Los Angeles--

we called it a "flying stovepipe" since it had no propeller.

I am very familiar with contrails since they were made by

many high-flying jet airplanes over the years, but these smudgy clouds

are not contrails.

Why do responsible people deny that something is being done to the air

we all must breathe?

When something is so obviously being done in the sky

can noticing it be called a conspiracy?

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