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A Moroccan inspired Chickpea Barley Salad with Moroccan seasonings, pistachios, dried apricots, onions, parsley, and lemon. Click to read Hank Shaw's recipe.

It finally happened,
I will now relate;
some teen age girls, imitated
my stumbling gait.
As I have aged,
my fitness has waned
as these old bones,
now walk with pain.
My steps are choppy
and I struggle so,
as I wobble more,
wherever I go.
The girls meant me no harm,
it is their way
to have harmless fun.
Besides, I enjoyed the attention.

Sunglasses
A coffee cup
with straw hat,
amongst an empty patio
with umbrellas,
on a beautiful day.

Where goes the light
at the end of the day,
when the sunlight has faded
and gone it's own way?

When my wife and our Son
went to lunch with me
and there was much enjoyment;
it's how it should be.
Later the statement and question,
she makes to me.
"Joe is a nice man,
does he have any parents?"
I had expected this question
for many a long time,
so I told her the answer,
"He's your Son and mine."
She said, "Really?" back to me.
My wife wasn't teasing,
as I could plainly see.
A rush of emotion, overpowered
my feelings, bothered my stead,
like a sharp, pointy boot,
straight to my head.
There is pain every where
we now go.,
as more memory is lost
during this insidious show.

A dog with my hat,
clenched tight
in his jaw,
became a tug;
a playful game
and from that point on
I was never the same.

How do you spell ignorant,
selfish or dumb.
Please get vaccinated,
before you succumb
and pass the virus
on to your loved one.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured here, lasting only a few minutes, were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, just after a storm in 2012. Meteor Shower Tonight: Peak of the Perseids

Photo by Michael F Johnston

"Inspectors repeatedly found manufacturing and device quality problems with the HeartWare heart pump. But the FDA did not penalize the company, and patients had the device implanted on their hearts without knowing the facts." Read Article

Opinion:  A patient should have easy access to accurate and timely information relating to the risks associated with the major decision about to be made; instead of blindly relying on a  "regulatory system which generally serves patients well" and believing that “most companies are well intentioned.” If nothing else, intentions are not facts. 

“There is one book that I would rather have produced than all my novels,” Willa Cather rued in her most candid interview about creativity. That book was Rocky Mountain Flowers: An Illustrated Guide For Plant-Lovers and Plant-Users (public library| public domain by the pioneering plant ecologist and botanical artist Edith Clements (1874 –1971). Read more

When your head is spinning;
your brain is numb,
for the love, now lost,
tore a hole in my heart.

A tubeless tire.
A rusty chain,
piled atop
a bicycle frame.
What a story,
this must be,
with missing parts
in a weedy patch
of dried hanks of grass.