(mis·sive /ˈmisiv/ -often humorous, a letter, especially a long or official one.”he hastily banged out electronic missives”
”Happy Memorial Day Gang, er, maybe not. Memorial Day can be a sad occasion… and none of us are getting any younger and will be the subject of memorials ourselves one day (except maybe for me, eternally 39). But, I like to say ‘Getting Old IS A Laughing Matter’ – heck of a lot better than crying. So, try to embrace some of the below tips. I can vouch for many of them.’ – JB
MUSTARD and SNOW(Y) – 30-year-old Snowy seems to thrive in the yellowness of the wild mustard that has had an unusually strong presence this spring in Northern California, if not other places. Don’t know if wild mustard flowers have had such an impact on the rest of America but they certainly have in Northern California and the Napa- Bay Area in particular. Not many years ago Napa celebrated the bright yellowness , that has become a Napa tourist attraction in Spring, with the Mustard Festival where folks could taste different mustards paired with wines at various wineries and stores of Napa.. Though that tradition was disrupted even before covid, there was a bumper crop of mustard in 2022 which had one of the most spectacular viewings ever. And, in 2023 mustard can still be seen in places like Briones, below. But don’t wait much longer as the heat’s about to lay waste to what remains. MORE
Bay Area Backroads spring WILDFLOWERs in waning days
Zippy in earlier days as indoor-outdoor cat in Red Bluff
From four to éŕ t in a year- I treasure these ‘guys’ , relative newcomer Pinky, 16, and Zack, 17, my lomg time buddy of some 12 years aka the Corona King, now best buddies- and my best buddies. Oh, so special. Read more
CLICK HERE to Lengthen Your Telemeres- Live Longer- Your (Bad) Heredity is not a death sentence: Lifestyle Changes May Lengthen Telomeres, A Measure of Cell Aging
Talk show host and Ex-police officer says he’s never had a single Racist action against him and calls what is being perpetrated today is ‘the most racist concept’ mostly by Dems
REMEMBERING COVID and Beyond- thoughts for the day
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Put differently, Covid-10 survival rate is 98.4% or roughly ninty-nine out of every hundred people with Corona virus survives, which is only slightly (about 1%) behind the seasonal flu survival rate of nearly 100%, not the 90% originally modelled estimates. This is considerally better than the Ebola survival rate (during the Obama administration) of only 61% or 40 times better and even 10x better than the SARs survival rate of 90% (2002-3). The U.S. survival rates are even better than these worldwide average mortality rate
Lands End and MORI’S POINT feature different strains than Eastbay flowers
wildflowers in San Francisco?
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Tiki and Wildflowers Delight this Spring Explorer
TIKI TIMING – Who Says wildflowers and tiki don’t have something in common? In the midst of my Spring wildflower exploration obsession I came upon this beautiful original tiki garden of sorts. Succulents and bamboo seem to dominate this 1965 home yard in Pinole,CA where folks gathered to perfume music of that era. Original owner recently sold home ‘as is’ in sll its original tiki glory
FIRE IN THE SKY – Christmas Eve in Lafayette, CA 12-24-22
An Inspirational Christmas Message Based on an entry in Franz Kafka’s diary:
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Embrace the change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.
Stanford’s New War on English: Words You Can’t Say, like ‘American’
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Marcus AureliusHere are SOME of the words that Stanford University has decided are “bad” and should be replaced. They even provide those replacement words to “swap” for the offending ones.Does anyone else remember what U.S.A. stands for? Think about that when you get to the BAD WORD, “American”.
Some of the words considered ‘harmful’ from grandfather to brave to American
Original: walk-in Swap: drop-in, open office Reason: ‘Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with disabilities’ Original: grandfather Swap: legacy Reason: ‘This term has its roots in the “grandfather clause” adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks’ Original: guru Swap: expert, subject matter expert (SME), primary, leader, teacher, guide Reason: ‘In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect. Using it casually negates its original value’
Original: brave Swap: none/do not use Reason: ‘This term perpetuates the stereotype of the “noble courageous savage,” equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man’ Original: man hours Swap: person hours, effort hours, labor time Reason: ‘This term reinforces male-dominated language’ Original: American Swap: US Citizen Reason: ‘This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)’ continued here
Christmas Year Round – Never to Late to Buy These Great Gifts – or for yourself….
‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck… How to live in a world that’s politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”, “Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves. And labor conditions at the North Pole, were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety, released to the wilds, by the Humane Society. And equal employment had made it quite clear, that Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid, were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid! The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh, because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA, And millions of people were calling the Cops, when they heard sled noises upon their rooftops. Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened, and his fur trimmed red suit was called “unenlightened”. To show you the strangeness of today’s ebbs and flows, Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose. He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation, demanding millions in over-due workers compensation. continued here
Christmas 2022 – JB’s ‘A’ List
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FIRE IN THE SKY – Christmas Eve in Lafayette, CA 12-24-22
An Inspirational Christmas Message Based on an entry in Franz Kafka’s diary:
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Embrace the change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.
=Cortesy Sam Van Zandt
Family TV Like It Used To Be – Specials,Comics, Home Movies, Ads – Bing, Hope, Sinatra, Carson, Jean Sheppard
Now that Andy Williams has left us , Johnny Mathis has to be the King of Christmas music, with literally dozens of Christmas songs. Click here to get a sampling. Mathis, now in his late 80s, continues to perform his Christmas shows as he just did in Modesto, CA
**click here for full site** Stanford’s New War on English: Words You Can’t Say, like ‘American’
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius
Here are SOME of the words that Stanford University has decided are “bad” and should be replaced. They even provide those replacement words to “swap” for the offending ones. Does anyone else remember what U.S.A. stands for? Think about that when you get to the BAD WORD, “American”.
Some of the words considered ‘harmful’ from grandfather to brave to American Original: walk-in Swap: drop-in, open office Reason: ‘Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with disabilities’ Original: grandfather Swap: legacy Reason: ‘This term has its roots in the “grandfather clause” adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks’ Original: guru Swap: expert, subject matter expert (SME), primary, leader, teacher, guide Reason: ‘In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect. Using it casually negates its original value’
Original: brave Swap: none/do not use Reason: ‘This term perpetuates the stereotype of the “noble courageous savage,” equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man’ Original: man hours Swap: person hours, effort hours, labor time Reason: ‘This term reinforces male-dominated language’ Original: American Swap: US Citizen Reason: ‘This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)’
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SPOTLIGHT Local Businesses: ALWAYS YOURS BAKERY CAFE, Castro Valley
In exactly One Year -Always Yours just had its first anniversary – the owner, a young first-time business woman has built a thriving niche bakery business in Castro Valley. (And they said it couldn’t be done. Ha!) Always Yours is not your typical bakery. From only serving the French delicacy, macrons, It has expanded into everything from fruit tarts, eclairs, specialty cakes and cookies, etc. to a drink menu including popular bubble/boba tea- and does them all well. We know. We’ve tried nearly everything on the menu. Check them out. Worth a drive even if you’re not local as you won’t likely see this type of bakery elsewhere. There’s seating both inside and outside in a relaxed environment and parking in the Castro Village should lighten up now that Christmas is nearly over. .
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We are your source for making every day this Spring special. Read on and learn how we like to celebrate the Springtime – MOSTLY BY SAVING BIG ON THINGS WE LOVE. It’s fun to shop – especially when you get DEALS! (Like the LG French Door Frig we just got for nearly HALF OFF!
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Oaks Card Room with Original Hofbrau still going nearly 100 years later across from former site of Oakland Oaks ballpark in Emeryville, CA Nice to see some towns that still treasure their icons and history as much or more than gentrification.
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powerful elected US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, who scolds President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask, has been pictured without a face covering in a San Francisco hair salon.’
Footage obtained by Fox News showed the 80-year-old House of Representatives speaker inside the premiseson Monday, breaking two of the city’s coronavirus-prevention
rules.
San Francisco’s pandemic orders do not allow hair salons to open indoors plus masks
are required outdoors. On Monday, even outdoors was not allowed, let alone indoors…
except for Nancy(?) You’ll remember Pelosi also invited ‘all’ to come to Chinatown in San Francisco to spend their money, late February, early in the Corona Virus lockdown. While the salon owner was furious with Pelosi taking advantage of one of her independent
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PARTING MESSAGE FROM JB
To quote a FF ,
‘Back when people found time for each other… a time of kindness and courtesy… back when we would sit in the shade and find faces in the clouds… back when we were more innocent…and free.
Oh, I know life wasn’t perfect back then… and memory has a way of highlighting the good while forgetting the bad and calling it all the ‘good old days’.
Still, there’s a reason we hold on to those good memories…’
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