21-JUN

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Dedication

Ribbon Cutting for New Fire Station

Fire Station 37 is located near Lincoln & Curtner and serves the south area of the Willow Glen community and the north area of the Cambrian community.

The new building is an 8,100 square foot two-story, single-fire company station that contains 2 apparatus bays, separate crew and captain’s offices, an open kitchen, dining & living room, exercise room, and 5 two-bed capacity dormitories with private restrooms.

The City’s new standards of Zero Net Carbon totally eliminate the use of natural gas. There are 82 Photovoltaic Panels generating a total of 25kW in solar power.

The building was designed by IBI-Group Architects, and constructed by Gonsalves & Stronck Construction Company.

The project is said to have been completed on schedule and within the approved $8.8 million budget (after acquiring the city parkland it now stands on).

See the recording on SJFD’s Facebook page at: SanJose FD

18-JUN

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Consternation

One night, I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul.

I gave him my violin to see if he could play.

How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy.

I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke.

–Tartini’s Dream by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1824)

17-JUN

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Deliberate

Be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. They grin like a dog and run about through the city. But thou, O Lord, shalt have them in derision. Thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn.

–Psalm 59

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

–FrederickDouglass

16-JUN

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Going

As the bird flies a Great Circle

Non-stop flight from London to San Francisco shows up as a curve on a Mercator Projection map of the Northern Hemisphere. The trip takes 11 hours at 36,000 feet altitude in the cramped fuselage of the Boing 777 jet airliner traveling up to 590 mph.

Nowhere to Land

Return flight over Greenland across Hudson Bay into Manitoba, exposed scenes of boundless, deathly, frozen landscape.

15-JUN

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Questioning

The finale episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was May 21, 2026

We’re not changing the damn world. Have you seen the world? I promise you, if you think that I’m on some kind of agenda, then I’m really shitty at it because nothing has gone in the direction that I had hoped. I mean, nothing for 25 years. And if people think that there is some other agenda going on, all the more reason to stick to that first principle that we started with, which is: What’s funny about this?

Stephen Colbert

Civil and Political Rights:

  • Freedom of speech, assembly, and religion
  • Right to a fair trial and political participation
  • Protection from arbitrary detention or torture

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights:

  • Right to education, healthcare, and adequate standard of living
  • Right to work and fair wages
  • Cultural participation and intellectual property

Collective Rights:

  • Rights to self-determination and environmental protection

14-JUN

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Significant

What a Day!

This was a three hour dirt-ride into the Inyo National Forest off of Death Valley Road east of Big Pine.

Looking West, across Owens Valley, toward the Mountains of the High Sierra.

There was a moment when I felt there was no return.