Is it time for a renewed age of enlightenment anticipating cultural, intellectual, and technological renaissance, as well as resistance to the oligarchs and those who hold power thanks to campaigns of misinformation?

In 2025 I published “Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota, Glacial Age Forward” First place, Historical Non-Fiction category: Next Generation Indie Book Awards. josfland.com for more info! 2 editions nearly sold out.

From Minnesota. Despite Repubs dysfunction The forsythia are in bloom.

It. was. amazing. I didn't expect to have an emotional response to Springsteen's "Minneapolis", but did. Baez' was beautiful. Bernie was "long winded" and a bit of a bore (buzzkill?).

MN Senator Paul Wellstone tragically died 2002. I carry his poster in his memory, for Gene McCarthy who opposed war in Vietnam; for the fascist assassination of Melissa and Mark Hortman. In my heart I carry Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis executed by the US government. NO KINGS

I’m working at the “lost and found” kiosk 1 - 4 p.m. at the Minnesota State Capital at NO KINGS rally Saturday. An honor to serve.

Falcon in York, 2012; Some guys just know how to have fun.

No Kings, Minnesota State Capital will feature a great lineup (Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, Kaohly Her, Liz Shuler et al). Three marches will converge on big screens for us old duffers, hearing aids in place, canes supporting replaced knees, with the kindness and support of younger neighborlings. NO ICE!

Tonight at 7pm, join all Minnesotans of conscience and goodwill in block-by-block vigils. Go outside; be together with your neighbors. Bring candles. Honor Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Say his name. Shine a light for him, and for all of us across Minnesota. We must be the lighthouse. Faith in Minnesota

Just saw that you "liked" my posting on my book published this year "Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward", also in the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection (gay author) and at Saturday's Book Fair!

Yep, all do better. For the initiated "Paul David Wellstone was an American academic, author, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002." He's MN hero and his mantra was Texas Paul's cup...

NO KINGS

Remember Senator Paul Wellstone Mr. Emmer?

My liatris/gayfeather on my boulevard garden (planted last year) hosts up to 30 monarchs daily, inner city, Saint Paul, MN. Wow! (Its a composite photo)

#monarch #butterfly Monarch mayhem on my boulevard garden's Liatris spicata/Blazing Star. As many as a dozen at a time, 8/17/2025. (A composite photo.)

#bookhistory 2nd printing 2025 “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward” 1,083 images (85% vintage & commissioned, 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Free talks, serialized. Josfland.com

In memory of the first responders and families of Gaza indiscriminately/intentionally assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

#Christmas #Jesus #Christianity #Bible Christmas: a multi-cultural version but the Anglos were yet to arrive.

My traditional gabled-roofed garden gate or munamon /棟門 was installed in 2014 and frames the moon viewing pavilion.

Holiday cheer: Christmas cactus has bloomed but ready to begin again; Jade Plant now in full bloom, picking up annually when cactus leaves off.

adding my Aging Gardens Website, Zone 4 and 5 inventory of trees, perennials, ground covers, and the like. www.aginggardens.com