No Kings #3

It was a cold, windy day, but even more folks showed up at our local, third No Kings protest. Sylvia picked me up, and we brought our seating along with our signs. 

A  friend took our picture. 
JM and Sylvia.

The following is just a snippet of the gathering. People occupied both sides of a quarter mile of roadway. Lots and lots of enthusiastic honking...

Our friend Susan was helping out, leading the chants up and down the roadway...

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Advice that Abigail Adams gave to her 11-year-old son, John Quincy, in the midst of the Revolution:

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

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Answers from Space

The world we have known is rapidly changing. Some changes generate awe, others wreck harm, some to the point of evil. It's time to measure ourselves by that which we are made--then reach for our "better angels." 

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From Artemis II Mission around the moon this past week: “You know, homo sapiens is all of us, no matter where you are or what you look like, we’re all one people...This brought us together and showed what we can do, not just putting our differences aside but putting our differences together to build on the strengths and accomplish something great.”

                                                              --Astronaut Victor Glover

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And, a good time to reach back and remember a former posting...

Earth spins a full rotation.
We have a day
and a night.

Earth travels 'round the sun.
We have a year
of 365 spins.

In the back of beyond
are masses and gases
light and not light

infinity becomes finite
everything swirls...
everything.

Elements and forces come together
then come apart
again, and again.

Never-ending stories
of creation and death
again, yet again.

Stardust and debris
gravitated and became
a beautiful planet—Earth.

When water, air, and elements
were just right
we appeared

and live in bountiful
planetary richness 

we strive to comprehend.

This took 4,500,000,000
orbits around
the sun...

and 265 industrial-age orbits
to hurt the gift
we were given.

Our short chapter also holds
the answers to heal
our beautiful friend.

We are stardust made of her elements.
We know what to do.
We know how to do it.
                          --JM

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