mistaken identity

Joan Sebastian Guerrero

when this picture showed up on my phone, my first thought was that NoJo had shaved his beard and cut his hair...

brown eyes ... dark brown hair ... tattoos ... little  daughter ... mid twenties... 

yes, at first glance

i mistook this young man for my grandson...

he is not NoJo 

 he is Joan Sebastian Guerrero 

and he is dead 

he was a documented, legal immigrant from Columbia, a taxpaying father and husband who had not committed anydamncrime other than driving while brown ... and he was murdered in cold blood by United States government agents because of the color of his skin - shot through the window of his car - his limp, bullet-riddled body dragged out of the car, thrown face down and handcuffed...

an eye witness said that his last words were, "I tried to stop."

his blood is still staining the pavement where he died.

he isn't the man they were looking for ... a case of mistaken identity ... public safety ... if you comply you will not die ... a full investigation will be conducted ... worst of the worst ... blah blah blah ... lie lie lie ... if you believe anydamnthing the current regime says, knowing that they are lying liars who lie, then you are a moron.

his wife and his little daughter are grieving and i grieve with them

he could be my grandson...

berry harvest

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

little rebel

 on or about july 4, my country's independence declaration will be 250 years old 

there are a LOT of new cross stitch charts commemorating the semiquincentennial - i chose this one...

to celebrate the WOMEN rebels

who never seem to receive recognition for our struggle for freedom and for equal rights

dunno when there will be a start on this one - hopefully before the Constitution's semiquincentennial

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

deflecting pool

found a brand new recipe for a brand new drink invented to commemorate the recent "renovation" of the water mirror between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial...

bright green sludge and blue rubbery chunks - sounds like a concept of a plan

 let's have a party...

and, suddenly, no one is talking about Thing One's Epstein Fury (aka the war with Iran) surrender or his Kennedy Center vandalism or his destruction of the East Wing or his pardons for insurrectionists and his slush fund to pay them off or the affordability crisis or ICE's atrocities and murders or the genocides in the Middle East and Eastern Europe or the illegal bombings of small boats that may or may not be drug-running in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific or the Epstein files or the hundreds of thousands of people who have died from starvation or preventable diseases due to the current regime's destruction of USAID or the attacks on voting rights and due process or his blatant corruption or...

the deflecting is something to reflect on, innit?!?

the neighs have it

 so ... i fell for another panel

this particular one has a lotta personal meaning for me and i bought it with only a bitty bit of a plan - the phases of the moon, a lunar eclipse 

and two stars cuz you can't have a second star to the right without at least two stars...

even without two stars in the top border this layout is ... wrong

better ... but still not right

i'm thinking ... i'm thinking ... i'm thinking 

fireflies? yes, fireflies...

the phases are upside down, but it's getting there...

Adventure Is Out There by Liz Braswell