War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Image: ‘Election Day Brawl,’ by Woody Guthrie, and found here.) Overcast and cool this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. In this new back to the old standard time of darkness coming too quickly in the PM is depressing enough. Finally, that day has come — Election Day 2024! And so far, with all…
Gray skies with a hint of blue now and then this late afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley—an environment that supplies an occasional burst of bright sunshine that quickly fades—make for a snap, shadow-dark flicker to the light, fluttering like an old black-and-white movie. The overcast might be our first seasonal encounter with our…
Awaiting the sound of fireworks this late-afternoon Thursday, July 4th, Independence Day, here in California’s Central Valley — explosions in stifling heat are wondrous. We’re sitting at 105 degrees right now with darkness and the fireworks still a couple/three hours away. In the wake of the SCOTUS immunity decision and subsequent shitstorm this week, and…
Clear skies and super-bright sunshine this Tuesday late afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — despite the chilled-airish breezes all day (temps in the usually-warmish mid-70s), summer-like shit will supposedly take hold at the end of this week. We’re forecast to be in the 90s by Friday; unless the wind keeps its cool-down effect going,…
Big, fluffy clouds floating in bright, shiny sunshine this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — another gorgeous spring day, though, today is a holiday and, too, seemingly slow on the horror-news. End of another month, again, which gut-clutching displays how our current calendar/clock-time seems to be accelerating the shit past as a full…
(Image found here). Clear-blue skies and tons of sunshine (albeit now fading sunshine) this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — a glorious day, yesterday was, too, and maybe, hopefully, more of the same tomorrow. Although forecasts differ, the weather is mostly a toss-up sometimes. However, this past week’s American political life took a…
(Addendums are supposed to be at the end of documents and other shit, but in this case, it’s being formulated at the beginning. In the lede below it has been pointed out to me, that although it’s noted as ‘early-evening Sunday,’ but here {Thursday morning} it’s obviously was supposed to be ‘early-evening Wednesday,’ and I…
Clear and cold this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — big winter weather punching most of the country right now and maybe into next week. Snow and freezing temps as the season blows across the US. Here in the valley, outside this afternoon cold-ass wind off a way-cold front from the Gulf of…
Sunshine in some spots still this late afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley. Another end to seemingly another week yet this one is special — not only the finish to holiday episodes but also the first few days in perhaps the most important, meaningful, consequential year since maybe in forever. Life as we’ve known…
Another Eve is in the works, and this one awaits the hot rock possibility of a horrid immediate future. Foggy and correspondingly damp this early evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — hours away from a new year already acting almost like a fevered cartoon. After a most-wonderful visit last week with family up…
