Some days one should just drink in the azalea energy

The picture is from the last day of Folklife and the custom of the Seattle Peace Chorus doing a Mozart Requiem sing-along which seems actually a fitting thing for Memorial day and definitely more congenial than other ways to observe.

Magnificent pink azalea tree or is it a rhodie???
Never mind the trash on the metal table.

 5.4 hours of sleep.in bed plus nap after a snack.

The Force with rants is especially strong today. Terrible because my phone is DEAD, so DEAD that it won'd even hold a charge long enough to receive verification codes.

The words "named plaintiff" are on my mind. I can't be the only one.

In the meantime I sat through 2.5 hours of a city council hearing today to make progress closer to home.


PS Happy Birthday Alexei Navalny

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