Light/Breezes

Light/Breezes
SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun

Friday, June 27, 2025

Diversions from the bitter....

    As the administration's clowns and marionettes speak their superlatives, we see affirmed an absence of character, allergy to honor and a stunted ignorance. 

    But, we divert to a collection of moments captured around here. I hope they are sweet and relaxing.



Hemingway at 14


Solstice moment


breakfast geometry


Happy cactus


"Sunny" blending the shadows and light
Sunny is Hemingway's apprentice.


Lana's workbench


Henry taking beach time


Bluff trail late spring


sit a while


Sun salute


old pauses for new


ready for tea



Hemingway splitting the shadow


Eleanor's rose finds a home.

 
    A story question of this existential quiz is who will turn out the largest vote and most qualified candidates in next years mid-term elections.
    
    The chaos, amateur governance, inept grasp of consequence and the malignant personality cult is providing a stumbling, bumbling hulk of ruin that appears to be arranging it's own failure. They don't want people to see the inner secrets of the "big beautiful bill," as it further harms and undermines his very own base. 

    But even some of the idiot king's supporters are starting to notice nothing about their lives has gotten better. People are still waiting for federal help that may never come. Some who voted for the "macho" doughboy are now watching family be jerked off the street by unidentified agents and then sent away. The economy is worst than it was when this gang took control. The world is unstable. He remains a moron. He has been easily played by foreign leaders. People are tiring of hearing his winy inarticulate self adulation. All of this is building a rumbling, tumbling upheaval of failure, moral malfeasance, international embarrassment that certainly must motivate. It should bring an ice age style shearing to the present political topography when US citizens can "avalanche" MAGA out of Washington and then get back to the business of being the United States, "One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all."  Or not. 

    Who's going to come with the pragmatism and solutions? Who's going to show up?

     See you down the trail. 



Saturday, June 14, 2025

Peace-Love-Dirt No Kings


        No rain on this parade. No kings either. 



In the upside down world of the new Heliogabalus
this is the land of the enemy. The land of peace, love, dirt.
Public Radio station KCBX.
This year our return to the Live Oak nation carries a heavier purpose of 
fund raising, as some stunted brain idiot king wants funding back so he
can gild with more gold and watch more tanks roll by.


So this year folks do what they have for decades
enjoy. Music, friends and the spectacle of a glorious day on the California Central coast all for the good of public radio and great music.








Long time emcee, Joe Craven, known to model new fashion between acts spoke to how this was a protest of its own, people supporting each other and standing together for public radio and television, for freedom and liberty of thought and expression.


This gent sports a solar powered had. Notice the mini panels activating dancing flowers?


So regardless of what ever else has been on your screen today, take a moment for a tour of people of all sorts and ages being together, having a good time
supporting public radio. And we like color.



Most of the folks camp for 3 days.









There's a sizable contingent of day trippers too. 
These are the T Sisters from Oakland.






These gentlemen touch legend.
Bassist Jim Kern and percussionist/fiddler/mandolin player, said Joe Craven played with Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Joined her by mandolin player Andrew Collins and Stu Allen on acoustic guitar and vocals doing a Garcia/Grisman tribute set. 












So, do you think we look like a threat to national security?
It's all about peace, love and dirt.
Rock on Live Oak Nation.


See you down the trail.