@emmettoconnell On what goes into genuine apologies, best thing I've ever read is On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.

A collection of poems about September to rest your mind from all the rest of the things. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-year-of-poems-september.html

#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #autumn #fall #September

One of my favorite things to do with the zucchini and summer squash abundance from my garden: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/zucchini-sweet-potato-fritters. I use orange yams, not the yellow sweet potatoes, for the added color and because that's what I usually buy. I add fresh shredded parmesan thanks to another recipe I read and I use the pancake plate in my waffle iron to make them nice and symmetrical and avoid the mess of frying.

#Recipes #RecipeOfTheDay #TodaysRecipe #Zucchini #Recipe #cooking #food #fritters #yams

@mattpedals Same! Paradise Built in Hell is also great, and of course her book on hope.

Rebecca Solnit is always so, so brilliant.
'And in the same way the diverse population left of center is supposed to make nice to the right or be responsible for when the right goes wrong. These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."' https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
#media #politics #Democrats #Republicans

A poem for Rosh Hashanah by Robert Rosenbloom: "Breakfront" https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/09/robert-rosenbloom-breakfront.html.

#poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #RoshHashana #tradition #prayer #family

Break your heart with "The Animals Are Leaving" by Charles Harper https://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/detail/203.

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #conservation #animals #extinction #Nature #biodiversity #BiodiversityDecline

@bikemonterey Now I'm curious about strawberry marmalade!

Vertigo attack sidelined my plans for the day, which made me think of a couple of my blog posts on biking, time, and being in the moment.
https://bikestylelife.com/2011/09/14/biking-as-downtime-and-other-musings-on-overproductivity/
https://bikestylelife.com/2011/09/24/its-all-in-the-attitude/

#BikeTooter #productivity #time #mindfulness #BikeTime #multitasking #overbooked #attitude #BicyclesChangeLives

Some of what I'm doing to turn apples into delicious preserved foods, and some lessons learned about overdoing on the food repurposing front https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-circular-economy-of-apples.html.

#FoodInJars #CanningSeason #PreservingFood #jam #jelly #preserves #RecipeOfTheDay #TodaysRecipe #recipe #recipes #cooking #canning #apples #AppleJam #AppleJelly #applesauce #compost #KeyholeGarden

We're entering the season for these recipes or others like them. What are your favorite ways to use or preserve apples and pears?
https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/apples-apples-apples.html
https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/09/pears-pears-pears.html

#FoodInJars #CanningSeason #PreservingFood #jam #jelly #preserves #RecipeOfTheDay #TodaysRecipe #recipe #recipes #cooking #food

I did a triathlon today! Well, my version of one anyway. https://bikestylelife.com/2023/06/11/choose-your-own-adventure-creating-your-version-of-an-athlon/

#triathlon #walking #cycling #yoga #BikeEverywhere #ChooseAdventure

"If you show up and do the work you might win – and part of winning is taking the attitude that, as Havel notes, what you can do is worth doing despite the fact that you can't know the outcome. At the very least you've won the battle of how to be the most heroic version of yourself."

Rebecca Solnit

(READ IT!)

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surrendering-in-advance-or-during-or-at-any-point-thereafter/

I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
https://mayastein.com/campaigns/view-email/8IlGTYKuxyvQy0hmK3OHEjfOMRdy2x2AQlLIiBWo_WjX5YT_wuZJSPssXttWWIV6xb73h-sYS44F_Np43GkGoPdNtqYuTr-RFcCSGIkjWLBaFmrbLZMO-R9wwYNgTaFXQpcIxhXV9tzTDSlPmDc2a1mWXx1z3hTkNndNFw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68aca675e2f0fd766918dc26&ss_email_id=68ae19d5d2547058f5c7222c&

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #transportation #TranspoPoems #ElectedOfficials #infrastructure #sidewalks #protest #bees #MayaStein #haibun #Basho #MatsuoBasho #haiku

This is a "Letter" to book mark. As usual, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson is at her best when she's explaining U.S. history and connecting it to issues we face today. This one is all about the struggle to become a more perfect union by extending the right to vote to all people regardless of race -- and how the successes in that struggle are still under threat today.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-5-2025-tuesday

A dream: We all, everyone in the whole world, read Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" every morning and live our days for it and from it.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/09/a-brave-and-startling-truth-maya-angelou/

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poems #MayaAngelou #peace

I just read that August 8 is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day.

This is the holiday we all need. Or is it just me? No, no, I'm sure it isn't.

#gardening #zucchini #neighbors #holidays

"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."

—Paul Bedford.

@NearerAndFarther I love it more every time I read it. (And it makes me tear up every time I read it too.)

As we leave July, my look back a year ago at some favorite posts from this month over the years https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/07/reruns-july-posts-worth-revisiting.html. Surprise! I write a lot about riding my bike.

#BikeTooter #cycling #BikeTour #BikeTouring #BikeTravel #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives