Writer, traveler, and cancer survivor. Traveling the world, sharing stories, photos, & food. Get out there and live life! #TheResistance #NATJA
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I drove into the most frightening electrical storm I've ever experienced -- a Shakespearean reflection of the anguish over injustice in our country.
Crossing Bessie's Creek: bit.ly/2U3bJRs #HumanRights #protests2020
I mourn the loss of this great man.
John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opini…
Coq au Vin in a Slow Cooker: We all need a little comfort food these days 😊
Find the recipe here: bit.ly/2V8aMHJ
#food #recipes #slowcooker #crockpot
Because we could all do with a little more kindness in our world . . .
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Just -- wonderful 😊
“There is peace even in the storm” 💨
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
🎼 “The Storm“ from “Summer/ 4 Seasons” by #AntonioVivadi
played by The Divertissiment Chamber Orchestra
youtu.be/ECZQUg6-TlU
🎨 #VincentVanGogh
#Art #ClassicalMusic #Impressionism
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Call your representatives & ask them to support the Great American Outdoors Act!
The bill will create thousands of jobs, help our national parks, and won't cost taxpayers a dime.
Pauline Frommer's interview with the Director of Restore America's Parks bit.ly/2zoa9T2
New York lawmakers vote to repeal 50a -- which keeps the disciplinary and personnel records of officers secret.
It's PAST about damned time.
Good Riddance to One of America’s Strongest Police Secrecy Laws nytimes.com/2020/06/09/opini…
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#ArmchairTravel will have to replace real travel for now; so on our imaginary journey we have ambled to Genoa with this light, atmospheric picture by Henry Scott Tuke, painted in 1915. This is the birthplace of the navigator and explorer John Cabot, or rather Giovanni Caboto...
A thoughtful set of observations on why this time, a majority of the country has turned out to support #BlackLivesMatter :
A ‘Glorious Poetic Rage’ nytimes.com/2020/06/05/sunda…
I began reading Ida Wells last fall, when I made a trip to Elaine and West Helena Arkansas to see the Elaine Massacre Memorial.
In granting a posthumous citation to Ida B. Wells, the Pulitzer Prizes honors one of America’s earliest and most intrepid investigative reporters.
poynter.org/reporting-editin…
Good Op-ed from the Washington Post.
Opinion | How Amy Cooper and George Floyd represent two versions of racism that black Americans face every day washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Horrendous. The police officer who did this should head to death row. And sit there for a lifetime before he dies.
Four Minneapolis officers are fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
Very good read.
African-Americans Are Highly Visible in the Military, but Almost Invisible at the Top nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/po…
Out of the morgue and back in the paper: the NYT shares golden, early photographs of Rita Moreno, Quincy Jones, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Meryl Streep, & Barack Obama (and more) with links the original articles.
First Inklings of Fame nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/fi…
