"…I think the bottom-line message for us in this country is: We have to be prepared for what they are beginning to see in Europe."

Michael Osterholm, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in response to the upsurge in COVID-19 cases in Europe in the last month as a forewarning of the potential for the United States.

“I don’t wanna go home.”

Suzanne Olbricht, MD – wife of Kevin (the blogger) in a conversation on the tasks that need to be completed next week after completing our 2+month recreational vehicle sojourn throughout the Upper Midwest into the West and back to Maine again…

“Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge.”

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and Founder of “Analytic Psychology”, the life-long process for differentiating the self through conscious and unconscious self-exploration.

“It’s a new window into the history of our universe. And today we’re going to get a glimpse of the first light to shine through that window.”

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. – in announcing the release of the first photographs from the James Webb telescope aimed at the rest of the universe and located about 15 million miles from Planet Earth…

[It is] “painful for Republicans to accept,” [but] “we have to choose. Because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.”

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) – in a speech before the Time for Choosing series, a non-partisan group that receives candidates from both parties in presentations at the Reagan Library; and, my new-found, favorite Republican with a few caveats on some of her policy perspectives.[1] 😊 

[1] SOURCE: “The Courage of Cassidy Hutchinson” by Peggy Noonan in her regular Wall Street Journal article, Declarations, Saturday/Sunday, July 2-3, 2022.

"Today the Supreme Court of the United States expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized…This is a sad day for the country in my view. But it doesn't mean the fight's over. Let me be very clear and unambiguous: the only way we can secure a woman's right to choose a balance that exists is for Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade as federal law."

– President Joseph R. Biden, in a news conference on June 25th following the announcement of a reversal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.