2:00PM Water Cooler July 4, 2004

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Chicken Track of the Day

Frequent Loon, Redstone Lake, Ontario, Canada. “A number of calls and a few splashes; quiet background of fine high quality alarm calls.”

Readers, I hadn’t deliberate on a Water Cooler immediately, however out of the blue my timeline was overwhelmed by the phrase “unburdened by what has been.” Left, proper, heart, all sides “unburdened by what has been.”

Right here is the origin, and I’d as properly take care of the matter now:

(I’ve made it my rule by no means to quote to DNC or RNC “analysis,” however I’m breaking it this one time. I assume they’re not faking it as a result of they don’t must.)

• However tonight I say, we should transfer ahead, not backward; upward, not ahead; and all the time twirling, twirling, twirling in direction of freedom.

• I, as chief, will use energy like a drum, and management like a violin. Take out any concept. Examine concepts, with the one concept left we’re left you don’t have any doubt and for sure we now have enthusiasm!

Time to throw one other shrimp on the barbie.

Contact data for vegetation: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a verify in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me photos of vegetation. Greens are high quality! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! If you’d like your deal with to look as a credit score, please place it in the beginning of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Upstater:

Upstater writes: “It’s that point of 12 months! These are Japanese irises, rhizomes from a neighbor lengthy since handed, however alway a reminder of friendship.”

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Right here is the display that may seem, which I’ve helpfully annotated:

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