DAILY PHOTO: Frankel Leo Street Synagogue

The small building dates to 1888, and the apartment block was built around it in the 1920’s by the local Jewish community both to shelter the synagogue and to support building the community.

PROMPT: Emotion

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

Contentment: the most sustainable of feelings.

DAILY PHOTO: Hungarian Parliament w/ Blue Sky

Taken in August of 2023 in Budapest

Retrograde [Haiku]

once stately mansion,
weedy & paint peeling:
entropy incarnate.

Summer Sunset [Haiku]

a shaft of sunlight
sneaks past a blocking cloud:
summer sunset.

DAILY PHOTO: Postapalota, Budapest

DAILY PHOTO: Széll Kálmán tér [formerly Moscow Square]

Sky Above [Haiku]

bounded by city:
look up to boundless sky,
& the mind soars.

DAILY PHOTO: Liberty Bridge, Budapest

PROMPT: Emergency Plan

Create an emergency preparedness plan.

For Zombies: walk briskly.

For Global Thermonuclear War: Find a nice place near a likely ground zero for instantaneous demolecularization — so as to avoid slow death by radiation sickness & nuclear winter starvation.

For Climate Change: carry a Nomex suit, a rubber raft, and an umbrella.

For aliens: assume Roddenberry was right until proven otherwise. (If Hawking was right, we’re screwed anyway.)

For all else: maintain a peppy, can-do attitude.