The sun has moved into Virgo.
By Jerre Imbarra, copied from Facebook on September 4.I'm not pro-murdering babies.
I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life-sustaining organs.
I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.
I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.
I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.
I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her.
I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.
I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.
I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child.
I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.
I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.
I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding.
You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is: I'm pro-life.
Their lives.
Women's lives.
You don't get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.
It's not about which stories you don't agree with. It's about fighting for the women in the stories that you do agree with and the CHOICE that was made.
Women's rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!
It's completely ironic that the anti-vaxers are using the personal choice issue yet they are the very Trumpish ones who would deny choice to women.
I saw this military gnome in camo with an AK on Facebook and it reminded me of son Robert because he sometimes sends me gnomes as gifts.
On Monday the 6th, Labor Day itself, Andrea went to help at Keawawa and took this photo while I stayed home and exercised and worked on
some growing boxes. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Later on Labor Day I built a second box and glued the feet on. The double spreader clamps the feet while gluing.
I saw this on Facebook posted by a friend and it reminds me of me.
Reading Utopia Monday evening. Written in the early 16th century by the Englishman Thomas More, in Latin. It was translated to English
after he died. Utopians, apparently, treat their slaves kindly.
Tuesday I finished painting the growing boxes, one green and one black.
Wednesday I photographed our little free library which has been going well for several years now.
After another light pruning, wiring, and planting in a growing box with black cinders and potting soil.
My bonsai elm is photographed in its Karenn Ohlinder pot.
It rained half an inch overnight and on Tuesday morning, the 14th, Andrea took this photo of the stream.
Also on Tuesday, Andrea took this picture of Napoleon.
My Air Force friend John Gardner sent me this photo of his cat Sentry watching the rain of storm Nicholas in Louisiana.
Friday morning, the 17th, I had the last of my eight week course of radiation treatments and I got this certificate signed by the staff.
From a Facebook friend, what LA will look like after 215 feet of sea level rise, which would require that all ice on land completely melt.
Mark took us on a tour of the condo and up the beach to the Kahala Hotel. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Feeding the dolphins at the hotel. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
There's a koi pond in one of the courtyards. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
I photographed the milo forest today. It's doing fine.
Autograph tree octopus root style bonsai.
Ironwood informal upright bonsai.
Walking over to the Ward Center.
Going into Na Mea Hawaii (Hawaiian things).
Completing the purchases in Na Mea Hawaii.
Currently the world model for the environment is exploitation. This is the URL of a referenced video presentation (over an hour):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BpFEoGK4jU
A Hajime Sorayama painting titled Sex Matter at the Nanzuka Tokyo Exhibition: example of the type of robot in my novel coming out next year.
Example of a flying car image (Dassault Systems).
Wednesday afternoon I photographed my bonsai-in-training mock orange.
The mock orange after unwiring, defoliating, rewiring, and repotting into a rectangular concrete growing pot, and I changed the front.
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