in goddess we trust

There is wisdom in feeling deeply. 
Let it bubble up to the surface as it is. 

Honor it by giving it a place. 

Let it be and you may see

There is beauty even in the wreckage. 

~ Maasa Craig, 2022

It's National Roller Coaster Day, which feels totally appropriate. This whole year has been a bad ride for us with Trump at the helm, even if he is clearly out of control. 

Twister III at Elitch Gardens

It is time for Americans to wake up to what Donald Joker Trump is doing. Wake up to the Trump administration assault on institutions, on knowledge, and on history. Wake up to their war on science, public health, and the American people. 

Niagara Falls | summer fun

Water is definitely our element. wonder |wonder | women grew up on our little tropical island. Happy clams in our beautiful beaches, bountiful oceans, and warm seas.

In June we took a family vacation to Toronto, Canada where we had to visit the wonder that is Niagara Falls. This time last year Mahala and I were there to visit friends and family as well.

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Niagara Falls. This name is Mohawk. It means, the neck - the term being first applied to the portage or neck of land, between lakes Erie and Ontario. Red Jacket pronounced the word Niagara to me, in the spring of 1820, as if written O-ne-au-ga-rah. ~ Henry Schoolcraft 

primary vote

Across the United States of America, Tuesday’s primaries highlighted tensions in the Democratic Party between progressive and establishment camps.

While in many Republican primaries, the leading candidates competed to be the most Trump-like as they wooed conservatives.

Happy 4th! to all our immigrants & First Nations

Let America be America - now and forever more - let freedom ring!

Even when truth is a lot messier than the idealized version eventually presented in our history, the Declaration of Independence was a good start for this nation and remains our strong foundation.

In June 1776, a little over a year after the start of the American Revolutionary War, the US Continental Congress huddled together in a hot room in Philadelphia to talk independence.

East Coast blizzard : 23 Jan 2016

After almost three months of the mildest winter in ages residents from the south to the northeast hunkered down indoors while a mammoth storm barreled across a large swath of the United States.

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New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, issued a travel ban for New York City and Long Island, including all travel from New Jersey bridges and tunnels into and out of the city. 

celebrating women's equality day : 26 August 2015

Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), a leader in the women’s rights movement, introduced a Congressional Resolution in 1971 designating August 26 as Women’s Equality Day. 

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The day celebrates women’s on-going pursuit of equality. The date was symbolically selected as the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.