These lovely creatures are all over my flower gardens at the moment!  I think if I’ve done one good thing this year, it was giving them a place to call home. :-)

This time, he intervened with the pipeline that corporate America plans to cut across sacred Native American lands in North Dakota.  Right move, POTUS. Thank you.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dakota-access-pipeline-explained-latest-judge-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-a7235106.html

 

 

Please read this paragraph from Mrs. Dalloway and tell me if you’ve ever read a better, more animated, or longer description of the passage of time anywhere! A one sentence paragraph, devoted to telling the time.  What a writer!

“Shredding and slicing, dividing and subdividing, the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day, counseled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion, until the mound of time was so far diminished that a commercial clock, suspended above a shop in Oxford Street, announced, genially and fraternally, as if it were a pleasure to Messrs. Rigby and Lowndes to give the information gratis, that it was half-past one.”

 

 

The garden is in full bloom right now!

 

 

Mettā.  What yoga is to me.

 

An earthquake destroying Amatrice is one thing.  No one can do anything about an act of nature.

But Venice dying because of tourism can be stopped!  I only hope it happens before it is too late.  And, my 2 Cents?: Florence is also being destroyed by the 10,000,000 (true number) of visitors per year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/opinion/can-we-save-venice-before-its-too-late.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

 

 

And so easy to grow from seeds!  One of the easiest.

The embedded video of a girl being rescued makes me cry tears of gratitude:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/world/europe/amatrice-italy-earthquake.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&src=recg&mabReward=CTM&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Recommended&pgtype=article

 

 

 

So many books, so little time!