Why is this even an issue? It should be a baseline. A given. What have we become as a nation. I don't recognize US anymore.

That’s one heavy seagull!

You mean that with 16,000 gun homicides (2000 of whom were juveniles), and 31,000 gun injuries, and 500 mass shootings this year (2024) alone...that we might have a problem with guns?

www.gunviolencearchive.org

Yes, but...you've read about the hibakusha?

If you are thinking turkey leftovers, the next morning it's hard to beat turkey hash.

In New Mexico we also make turkey enchiladas (red or green whichever is hotter at that season).

Luminarias/Farolitos
Biscochitos/Bizcochitos
Pinto Beans/Black Beans

it's a Santa Fe thing.

Put more concisely by Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Just before reading this tonight, I was reading a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, observing that everything is political.

The ground you walk on has a political history. The air we breathe. Our genes.

littlestarjournal.com/children-of-...

Thanks! I was just thinking of what new recipe I should try for Christmas Dinner, and now I've bookmarked it and am all set! :)

This happened to me as well. I used to work at a convenience store in a rough part of town in New Mexico. Graveyard shift. At the end of my shift I had to throw out a substantial amount of food. Instead of that, I shared it with local homeless folks.

I was fired.

Yup. A fuller backstory for those interested.

www.history.com/news/atomic-...

We are living through a kakistocracy. Something to tell your grandkids if we have any.

Yes! We did this for dinner tonight. With a green chile sauce from our garden. Something to be thankful for. :)

Thinking of my MO/TN/NM relatives who names begin with spiral curves...explains a lot.

Cephus
Chester
Clara Sue
Clyde
Cody Ray
Colt
Ora Joy
Orin
Orville

Laura Helmuth you are my new hero!