Liz Cheney says House GOP leaders have ‘enabled’ white supremacy, antisemitism: “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them,” Cheney said in a tweet. Part of me is like 🙌 finally a Republican with some sense and part of me is like 🤨 but you know which side you vote with most of the time, don’t ya?

time 📸 I need a new battery for my watch. Right now it doesn’t tell time so it’ll go back in the sock drawer for a little while longer.

I’m not sure I could ever pick one song as the best song of the 1980s, but Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears would be right up there.

clouds 📸 Yesterday I took a pic of the house but I was facing the sun and it wasn’t turning out well. I almost deleted it then wondered what it’d look like if I cropped out the house part and just left the sun and clouds. Turns out it’d look a bit like this.

But, also, why aren’t we all suing politicians who vote down climate change bills? Wildfires, floods, tornadoes. NPR reported it’s so hot in India, birds are dehydrating, dying, and falling from the sky. How are we letting this all just happen?

fence 📸 This guy hangs on our fence all year long. At first I thought he was kinda spooky, but he’s grown on me.

Conservative parents take aim at library apps meant to expand access to books www.nbcnews.com Your intellectual freedom, what’s left of it anyway, is actively under attack, Americans. It’s all just burning books without fire 📚

community 📸 Cheating a little because I didn’t take this picture, Evan did. We were at an American Library Association conference in San Francisco in June (pride weekend). The marriage equality ruling had just come down. The community was electric, we were so free and alive.🏳️‍🌈

This was almost my photo challenge submission for today, but I decided to go with Prince lyrics instead. Still, doesn’t this look tranquil and soothing?

tranquility 📸 Prince’s Batman Soundtrack has a duet with Sheena Easton called The Arms of Orion. It has a lyric about searching for a lover in the Sea of Tranquility in it. Here’s a photo of the liner notes with that lyric from my 1989 limited edition Batman Soundtrack tin.

Have you heard of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library? It’s her program that gives away a book a month to kids ages 0-5. See if you’re eligible in your neck of the woods: imaginationlibrary.com 📚

maroon 📸 Almost forgot. I couldn’t think of anything very creative for today’s maroon theme, so here’s a boring picture of a boring tie in my boring closet. I like to wear it with a light blue shirt, charcoal grey sweater vest, jeans, and jacket.

American Library Association Poster

pot 📸 Since passing the first year of his transplant anniversary, husband is allowed to have potted plants again as long as he doesn’t go too crazy. Here’s one in the kitchen.

Ron DeSantis' math textbook hoax - by Judd Legum: There was one problem with DeSantis' claim: It was completely and unequivocally false. No reviewer of Florida math textbooks for elementary school students found any instances of CRT. The truth is that each of the reviewers explicitly stated that they did not find any instances of CRT. DeSantis embodies today’s Republican Party. Burning books without fire.

Bonsai wouldn’t eat her food or her meds tonight. I cried a little. I’m not good at this. I just hate that it hurts so much. I hate that she’s not always going to be here.

bloom 📸 common name bridal veil; botanical name: spirea vanhouttii (thank you Michael) in bloom at the parklet across the street from the Catholic church across the street from the house where we live.

“I THINK IT’S JUST IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE REALIZE WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC.”

Here’s what the White House' grim coronavirus warning means for you | CNN Politics: At the same time, I think it’s just important that people realize we are still in a pandemic. As much as we don’t want to be in one, that is the reality. And it’s not just shaped by what’s happening here in the United States. It’s also shaped by what is happening around the world. And we’re seeing more and more of these subvariants pop up both here in the US as well as around the world.

PHOTOS CRASHES WHEN I TRY TO SHARE CERTAIN PHOTOS

So lately, ever since I started downloading Shortcuts on my iPhone, trying to share certain pictures crashes the photos app. It’s not completely random, but it kind of is. I pick a photo, hit share, and immediately Photos crashes. It happens every time I try to share that photo. Then I’ll go to a different photo and have no problem at all when I share it. It’s only certain (and many) photos that are doing this.

A recent photo from Michael’s garden. I like this one. I played a little bit with it-bumped up the saturation and darkened it. I don’t really know what I’m doing when I do that stuff. I just adjust the bars until I like what I see. I used an app called Macro for this. 📸🌸

These didn’t make the photo challenge but I still like them. The theme today was “union”.

union 📸 Michael and I just had our 6 year anniversary. When I think of union I think of us being married. These are our engagement/marriage rings, made of rosewood, sitting on the bedroom dresser in front of a jewelry box.

SHOULD PERFORMANCE VENUES HONOR PRIOR COVID-19 PRECAUTION RELATED PROMISES OR JUST GO BACK TO NORMAL FOR-PROFIT MENTALITY?

Most of Broadway Ends Vaccine Checks as Cases Rise in New York - The New York Times: “Our patrons have purchased tickets, and in the case of subscribers, been assigned performances through May, with the understanding that they would be entering a fully vaccinated and masked environment,” Steve Dow, the Roundabout Theater Company’s chief administrative officer, said in a statement about its Broadway run of “Birthday Candles.” This article is about Broadway (nonprofit theaters are keeping proof of vaccination policies in place, for-profit theaters aren’t), but I have this exact same concern in Ohio.

park 📸 Here’s a photo of Bonsai in better times at a state park in Ohio. Good vibes for Bonsai are appreciated. Her arthritis and heart murmur are progressing quickly. She’s my special ol’ gal and I’m so grateful that she’s been with me so long. 🐕

silhouette 📸 This is one of my favorite photos of Michael. It’s more of a somewhat silhouette than an actual silhouette and he’ll probably hate that I shared it since it was taken back when he was wearing his oxygen…but I really adore this man and this is but one reason why. 🐈‍⬛ 👤