Riverboats roil the waters Oh, not the riverboats you Are envisioning, just the Ordinary summer Sunday Traffic that a river in the American northeast sees. Our riverboats are the ones With sails furled while a Motor runs them up or Down or they are ferrying Sightseers and citizens Alike or on patrol passing Slow-moving transport Ships or just slightly gaudy Fishing boats not trawling For fish but amusing a crew Of revellers in a holiday spirit. After all, it is Sunday and we Have our day off and it is the Last days of summer we want To enjoy and celebrate here On a Sunday on the river
It's a continent, Those groups Of clouds, at Rest in a gray Sky. Hunched Together as if To form a map. Directions to Climbing this Mountain run, This Everest, This widest of Rivers, forded And travelled, These trails, These byways, These prairies, Are purely in The imagination Of this traveller.
A continent un- Folded, drawn And redrawn in A demarcation That has no firm Boundaries, as It floats across A clear pale sky. If I were to climb Or wander the Pillowing mounds Or if I could row Over the billows Would my feet Fall softly or find Their footing lost?
Once upon a time, two boys from Brooklyn chose the egg roll as their traveling feast. They picked them up on King’s Highway, Avenue M or Avenue J and strolled home eating.
Foods that are easy to carry are a part of many cuisines. Some would argue that these are the best of any bill of fare.
You can’t walk chomping on a salad but wrap it in a pita and it’s easily portable. Israelis throw in some falafel to round out the meal.
In fact, the sandwich was designed as a finger food.
What with Dagwood’s innovations, it has become less manageable as street ests but pare it down to its basics and you can eat it on your way home, too.
It’s both refreshing and unexpected to do a search in which the engine isn’t reading my mind.
To be sure, having it surmise the answers to my quest gave us a kind of short-hand familiarity that was almost intimate.
On the other hand, I felt the intrusion deeply when the search engine posted ads related to a recent forage as if it were unwilling to let go of what we had going.
So I have found DuckDuckGo which never finishes my sentences and sometimes gives me options far from my narrowest exploration.
Watch that duck go.
I am obliged to hunt through the links they provide to bring me closer to my objective. Too often there’s a Reddit thread as part of their answer to my query.
As their ads promise, however, they won’t be “watching me.”
They also will not be building algorithms based on what I asked for yesterday.
Finally, a browser that doesn’t stare at me or stalk!
Commenting, a friend wrote: Good to know about the DuckDuckGo. My response: It’s not as helpful as Google cause it doesn’t track who I am.
The last dozen years or so the national legislators have failed to legislate. Somehow, miraculously, the Senate managed to pass a BIG bill.
It will help mitigate climate change, impose taxes on large corporations, and help reduce inflation. It will improve health care pricing and access. It goes to the House and then can be signed by Joe Biden.
This is today’s good news.
More along the good things path? Turns out murder rates are down. That’s a statistical fact – despite the dire news of mass shootings which alarm us. This would be better news if noone had access to AR-15 rifles.
All The Best 