Nothing but blue skies from now on…
Last Week
My goal is to have this newsletter published by EOD on Sunday, but in reality it gets done when it gets done. I’ve been getting familiar with Bluesky as a replacement for my Facebook and Instagram postings. I was pleased to see that it provides a mechanism for embedding posts as HTML code. I’ve started to post a random daily picture. There is no theme, just whatever catches my fancy for the day.
#POTD – Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, tallhook down coming in for a landing on the USS Bon Homme Richard at Yankee Station, 1970.
— John Poltrack (@poltrack.net) January 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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It was a rather uneventful week, no major storms, no drama. I like it that way. On Saturday we had our monthly jam at Dunn State Park in Gardner, MA. I put down the guitar to take a few photos
Photo Gallery – Week 3 (2025)
Daily Picture Themes
I’ve been keeping up with the Daily Picture Themes posted on the social media site Spoutible and posting them on my Improves with Age substack. Here is the summary from the first week of 2025.
“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”
— Mark Twain
Practice self care
“[Try to] accept with [grace] the things that cannot be changed, [maintain the drive] to change the things that [might and] should be changed, and [gain] the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” – Doug Waitt edit of the Serenity Prayer
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