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I think we all needed this tonight! Thank you!

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Yes!

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Yes, perfect.

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That photo is exquisite. Thank you. The view of a clear sky is priceless here on the west coast.

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Indeed. A beautiful view in contrast to our hazy sunset happening now. Thank you Buddy.

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The word “exquisite” came into my mind too as I saw this fabulous photo. Very inspirational!

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After today’s Hurricane Hilary activities, then our 5.1 earthquake, followed by a flash flood warning that will last until 3 a.m. PST your photo was a pleasure to view!

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Only in Los Angeles will it happen that we're waiting for a tropical storm (so far, not living up to the hype here in the western SFV - I can live with that), and we get an earthquake. I was watching TV and they were interviewing Mayor Bass just as it happened and she got this look on her face and then said something you can't say on broadcast TV. It was enough to make my office chair roll back and forth, but 5.1 is nothing here.

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Ha! Keep those shocks on the chair rollers there, TC. I'm near downtown, and it's wet and wooly here, with a fish-out-of-water humidity jacket so tight I can almost see Lauren Bacall sashaying towards me.

Key Largo in Our City of the Angels. Hope Ventura Blvd is still smooth.

Overall, you're right, we're standing steady!😀

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Started raining hard in Irvine at 7:30am. Off and on all day in varying degrees. Some breeze earlier and downright windy about an hour ago. Almost 10pm and it’s still raining here. I’m hoping this is all we get.

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It's almost dead calm here now, Evelyn. I suspect it will pick up in the wee hours. Hoping it gets better for you down in the OC as well

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It's supposed to be out of the area by midnight according to KCAL-9 news just now.

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Glad it wasn't too bad. I have PTSD from watching hurricane tracks while living in Florida. (We had 25 inches of rain from Ian last year).

By the way, are you Chaffey High's Evelyn Spiess?

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Right after I posted last night the wind and rain really went crazy. But it didn’t last long. Living in Florida would give me PTSD too. My family was in the car trying to get home during a hurricane when we lived in NC. It was really scary. I will never forget the image of the above ground swimming pool flying in the sky that is seared in my memory. We made it into the storm cellar!

Indeed, one and the same. CHS’70!!

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Flying swimming pools?! Eeek! We had a transformer blow during Ian, creating a beautiful but frightening blue light show at 5 a.m.

I don't think I knew you at Chaffey, but I guess I knew of you. Hell, I didn't know anyone most of my time there, being one of those painfully shy ones.

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Here it is, 10:43pm, and the only problem I had was a little interference with the satellite signal while I was watching Part 1 of a great documentary on MGM, "San Francisco Sound," about all my old friends up there back in the day, when SF was a city you wanted to live in (unlike today). Now it's just real light rain outside, no wind, the whole shebang is over.

Definitely glad I stopped being a "determined east sider" 20 years ago. :-)

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Same here, weather wise. So I guess you really don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

I think SF is still a magnificent City to live in, save for the cost of living and that sad sack, Halloween colors clad excuse of a baseball ⚾️ team🤣

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Nah, I'm talking about the 60s, when you could live in Berkeley and be in the Haight in 30 minutes, hitch-hiking. YOu can't get anywhere there now in under an hour, the place is worse than LA for traffic. And then you have all the Silly Con Valley scum.

All the interesting people got chased out 30 years ago when the techies came to town and ruined the place.

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Yeah, you're probably right. I was born in 1960 so don't have the same lived memories, but definitely feel an incense and patchouli waft of the zeitgeist.

As for the techies, who could have predicted that they would make the yuppies of the '80s look like Thomas Paine in hindsight?!?

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In the '60s the population of California was never more than 15 million. Now it's 40 million. That's the dif. When I was at Berkeley, in the first half of the '70s, sometimes I'd ride my bicycle to the Richmond bridge, hitch across that, then ride to the coast and down to the Golden Gate, hitch across that, and ride to where-ever it was in SF that I hitched back to Berkeley.

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Didn't feel it in the OC. I do have to say Mayor Bass seems to be on top of things in LA. Good for her.

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Yeah, she definitely was on top of things today. There's a rumor I believe, that she had more than a little bit to do with the AMPTP and the WGA meeting 4 times this past week.

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I believe that! She also seems to be working on getting homeless people off the streets. Maybe LA just needed to elect a woman to get stuff done!

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so true

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And I received a Shake app alert just before I felt the jolt! 😎

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Huh. I got the notification afterwards.

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You are right 5.1 in the bay area is no big deal. But 7.1 from Loma Prieta released the amount of energy equivalent to the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. From the different perspective, the Turkey quake was 7.8 that released the amount of energy from 500 atomic bombs. The Richter Scale is logarithmic.

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Be safe

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Thank you!

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Cloud drones. Black clouds always remind me of li’l Abner’s Joe Bflstk.

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You are being tried. Stay strong. Let us all know how you are doing. 💖

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True that, Gailee. And I thank you for your kind "likes" to my stream of consciousness musings as well

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I hope you are OK and safe. We have family in Burbank. And I knew about the hurricane and then i saw notice of the earthquake.

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☮️💟

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Keeping you all in my meditations!

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Stay safe!

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stay safe!!

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Heather and Buddy, thank you for a new sunrise on a world made better by you and by all your readers. It is so wonderful to be part of this substack. Sending love from India, where it ahas been monsoon since June. The sun rose here this morning. Have a great week. I am also raring to go!!!

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Elizabeth, you put it so beautifully—thank you.

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Beautiful! Professor, thank you. You’re the best! The GOAT, even... trust me... it took awhile for me to embrace that word ... and here’s where Meryl Streep learned what it meant... that’s when I, reluctantly, embraced it. https://youtube.com/shorts/vOkzHJrJumA?feature=share

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Real goats are the most enjoyable, funniest, and mischievous of all animals too! I used to be called the goat lady for different reasons my two daughters and I had a small herd. I love goats and don't mind at all being called a goat lady. But I think GOAT as in greatest of all time is an honor both to Meryl Streep and the sweet,mischievous, furry animals too.

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Most definitely!

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Love this. Thank You. I hope I'm an old goat, too.

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Greatest of All Time. I love it.....thank you dear Carla.

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Thanks for that video . I learned from my grandchildren as I didn’t get it either 🤷‍♀️. Love Meryl Streep

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Goats eat garbage, keep things tidy and hop around, what’s not to love.

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Thank you, Buddy, for the beautiful photos. You give us beauty in difficult times.

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Sleep well! We all so appreciate your daily letters, and understand that you need to take the occasional break from this Herculeam task of collating information and delivering it to us! Thank you so much!

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Spectacular sunrise. Looks like a pic I have from Portugal. And in a week that’s where I will be. Away. Wherever we live we share sunrises and sunsets. And recognize the magic of beginnings and endings. Thank you, Heather and Buddy, for a short break. Away from the politics and craziness that has distracted us from the reality that humans have a limited time on this planet, even those who believe they’ll live forever, but nature, if we care for her, could be forever.

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As the Buddha said, “The trouble is, You think you have time… “

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With your words, Irenie, I took flight into the life of life. Thank you.

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Thank you, Fern. It’s the words and pictures we all share, yours, mine, each of us, that have the potential to bring us together.

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Connection is vital.

Morning hug, Irenie.

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Such powerful words. Thank you.

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What part of Portugal? I have friends who live in the Algarve.

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Hi Ally. I’ll start in Lisbon, then hope to see friends in Setubal, outside of Lisbon. The Algarve is farther south. Beautiful. Your friends are lucky. And smart. Lots of Americans moving to Portugal. I’ll then travel to Porto and work with a Habitat for Humanity type group in a build. The rest is solo, finding my way to Barcelona. Hoping to travel in the North, History. Guernica and San Sebastián. A long journey. Trains and buses and on foot. No driving. I’ve walked different Camino routes, so hope to see new places.

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Sounds wonderful. Our friends there are a couple; one is (now) a dual US / Portugal citizen (her wife is native Portuguese, and is a professor at the University of Faro). We've been to Lisbon a couple times, and gone on vacation trips with them. We are hoping to go spend a month there next year, partially to see if we'd like to live there for a while.

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Sounds wonderful to be even considering a move. I hope you share more of your journey. My friend and her wife are very happy there and seem settled into the community. I didn’t think about the possibilities of bias or prejudice. Less judgment, more acceptance. It’s Portugal.

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Lucky you.

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That’s a photo that will take your breath away – so beautiful. Thank you for it.

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Beautiful! We’re having crazy winds and rain right now in Orange County. Been raining steadily all day and now the gusting winds are upon us. Still have lights. All is good in Lake Forest CA.

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I’m saying a prayer for all you folks out there on the West Coast. I know a lot of you have never experienced this type of weather, even though this has decreased from a Category 4 to a Tropical Storm. You still have the rain, for a couple days, strong winds and high possibility of tornadoes .

Good luck! 👍

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Be safe🤞

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Swoon…a sunset view worth waiting for: thanks Buddy! Thanks Heather every day!

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... A SunRise worth the anticipation!!

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That is lovely!

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What is this thing called rain that you speak of?

Asking from the depths of hell AKA Texas. It was 111° today in Waco and no precipitation since early June.

Thank you for sharing the beautiful photo, and your wonderful Letters.

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50+ continuous days of 100s…plus a few more! Hydrate, eat & drink cool things, get wet if possible!

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Oooh. Stay inside. Hydrate.

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Beautiful… I’m not a morning person so I so appreciate this so very much.

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It will be a new day! Sweet dreams.

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Love you Heather❣️Sweet dreams !

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