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Interesting things since the last post:
I broke my right clavicle riding my bike; so far so good. This was a first broken bone.
World Cup Fifa was seen on a large screen outside with a couple thousand people on Puget Sound. Pretty cool!
Fat lady 7/11
Shows: PBS Ken Burns biography of Mark Twain
Peacock: Correction--the future is here crime drama with a great cast.
Interesting Facts: mean age of a senator: 65 years
Half of all money donated to politics comes from 66 and up
in 1983, households with age over 75 had net worth sl above national average; in 2022 it was 55% higher
Across all Gov programs, $2 on seniors and 1$ on children.
To increase zoning for more housing, the projects go through review at zoning and planning board meetings—meetings overwhelmingly atended by long term homeowners often aged who say no—their environment is undisturbed and their homes becomee more valuable.
Articles:
https://open.substack.com/pub/donaldjeffries/p/remembering-the-uss-liberty?
Music:
Gonna Live Till I Die: Frank Sinatra
The Austrian Meadow: Mozart
Cuba: Tim Buckley: (no, not Jeff’s father)
Stopped my Horse: Pieta Brown, Carrie Rodrigues
Shore Leave: John Hammond
Books: Jacksonland by Inskeep—dry history but reminds us that the country had a sort of Trump early in our history.
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