04/29/2024 1:29:10 PM PDT
· 5 of 22 jimfree
to Eleutheria5
Last year I was in Poland for an athletic competition and touristing. A must visit is the Warsaw Rising Museum. So many stories of real heroism put modern “heroes” in perspective.
From time to time I work with a woman who built her own at 17 and has played professionally for decades. As I square dance caller I am asked to work with live music once or twice a year and for many of those events we have built a band around Karen and her hammered dulcimer.
04/17/2024 5:05:03 PM PDT
· 5 of 7 jimfree
to DallasBiff
Mrs. jimfree and I had the pleasure of entertaining a small HS junior class for their prom equivalent, a soiree. They were dressed very nicely, but not expensively. All drove in groups or were shuttled by parents. They had dinner and other activities before joining us in their cafeteria for dancing.
We had done a school hours dance workshop for them two weeks earlier so they did okay swing dancing with a simple jitterbug step and some elementary maneuvers as well as some other dance forms (I come from a square dance calling background.)
We had a great time and the 30 or so kids seemed to as well.
Very nicely done. More and more of these analogies are needed. People don’t get complex systems and are too willing to listen to the witch doctor’s explanation of natural phenomena.
03/30/2024 3:12:31 AM PDT
· 12 of 12 jimfree
to ridesthemiles
Mrs. jimfree drives a 2005 retro design Mustang convertible 5-speed. I’ve referred to it as My Pretty Pony for the 70-year-old woman. Actually she’s 72 and bought it when she was 61. Fun car.
03/29/2024 4:22:27 PM PDT
· 30 of 40 jimfree
to airdalecheif
I directed a social activity for a father who lost an adult son. I went to the memorial service and Dad was shocked and surprised and treated me like a person of great import. I directed a social activity he was involved in - that’s all. When people you respect a little bit show up for such things it’s important. When PDJT shows up it must be seven kinds of awesome.
See Oakland California bridge collapse in 1989. Republicans GHWB and Deukmejian got the ball rolling on the rebuilding project slowed by new safety reinforcement standards. Various bridges and other freeway structures not in the immediate collapse were closed and demolished/rebuilt.