Within Reason
@celesteregal
Hermit reader and artist from immigrant families. Three years in India because I always wanted to go there.
Currently we lack reporters with backbones. Our country has turned into Goobledegoopland.
I love elephants. Ganesha is my favorite god of the Hindu line up. I spent 3 years living in India and although I was ripped off by women landlords a few times, my loss was returned in some way.
I want everyone over 65 and definitely over 70 to watch out for scammers. They must have a list of birthdays and think we're all vulnerable. I suggest watching The Beekeeper on this subject. Great movie. Jason Stratham is the actor you want to take care of business.
Hang on to them. You never know when they'll decide to bloom. I had one that did nothing for a year and blooms on Halloween. Go figure.
International tourism to the United States suffered a steep 5.5% drop in 2025—totaling roughly 4 million fewer visitors—with early 2026 data showing continued declines despite record-breaking global travel trends. (From Google search)
A mural in Tehran. Making friends as usual. When will someone stop the destructive DT?
My father in his prime. I'd love to have him back at this age and me at mine. We could talk reasonably. I miss him so. He died a proud soldier but his sickness sucked the life out of him as did my mother's family. He was very funny and likable.
Despite the current fiasco, Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato 428-348 BC
Today I feel very sad about all my friends and all those who died in Vietnam. What a senseless war. With 58,000 service members dying and a failed objective I can't happily celebrate as some do. Many of my friends who came back were dead inside because of the war's brutality. They died early deaths.
Don't we miss MLK? I surely do. Are there no reliable men/women we can believe in? Dedicated advocates who can answer a question directly? Or are we stuck with self centered fools? I miss Shirley Chisholm, too, "Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society because that talent wears a skirt".
#PeteHegseth should be kicked out of office for not knowing anything about what his job is along with the rest of the idiotic, belligerent #government we are enduring currently. Shame on him for wearing tatooed Christian symbols for show. It's all so revolting. Is this really the best we could do?
Trickle down my tuchas! It's getting to be like Dicken's scene with Oliver (in the novel Oliver Twist) saying "Please, sir, I want some more." The American people are begging with an empty bowl.
Most of us know DT is a moron but comments from Congress make them sound weak. How much more of this ignorance must we endure? Our nation is suffering & now our soldiers are in a pointless war w 13 killed & 300 wounded. Iran has suffered 1700+ civilians killed, 300 being children, says HRANA.
First ICE gets $140 billion. Now they get $70 billion. What do we get?
This is wilfully destroying our environment. But them billionaires don't care. They are insatiable.
Must we litter everywhere? I remember reading about this last year. Makes sense Musk would be the key figure in this. I think it's grounds to revoke his citizenship. (Remember this 1973 album?)
I saw footage of the cages the undocumented children are held in. It is grotesque, unAmerican, heartless and wrong. America is the land of immigrants. Twenty-seven percent have immigrant grandparents. The number gets higher further back in time. My grandparents came from other countries. Shameful.
Since when have reporters turned into such useless hacks? Is there no one with any guts to ask the important questions? Sure wish Jimmy Breslin was still around. Any shoe leather reporter worth their salt would be on this sneak thief mess like white on rice. But then rice has changed too.
Hegseth is going to deny those who served, grants to attend upscale colleges because they're "biased against military". Yhis makes no sense. He went to Princeton & Harvard. Now he wants to deny others? He already cut Harvard. Take your hands out of our lives! www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
This is a must read to understand how this administration wants to pepper the land with concentration camps. It is heartless, disastrous and will destroy cities and towns while making misery for the detainees and more $ for our wretched regime. Do not let the hard rain of greed grow.
Required reading for all of us. Particularly now with all these violent actions by ICE. (Incompetent Corps of Excrement)
I decided to do a Robert Duvall marathon, starting tonight, in honor of a great actor who peppered my life with the excitement of great acting. Of course, I started w the first, To Kill a Mockingbird (plus everything in between) & will finish w The Pale Blue Eye, both fabulous films. What a legend!
Robert Duval died early this year. Sometimes u expect actors to live forever. He had his first powerful few minute debut as Boo Radley at the end of To Kill a Mockingbird. It was extraordinary as the door closes to reveal his presence. Then there's the rest of his remarkable work. Goodbye great man.