Beatrix. Prom. 2025. Vintage 1930s Hand-BeadedGown. Giving me the look that indicates she’s kinda done with me and the whole taking pictures thing.

First wearing my sunglasses day of the year for me.

So, an American Pope. From Chicago no less… Hmmm.

One more… Here’s half of Beatrix’s static trapeze act. I accidentally hit the stop button in the middle of it. Also, this was filmed during dress rehearsal so she’s “marking” her choreography as opposed to going full out.

Core strength we should all aspire to.

I’m being careful with how widely I share this but…

If you’d like to see video of what I mean when I say Beatrix is a Circus Artist, here’s a video of one of her dozen acts this spring (This is called Double Trapeze).

Current Thought Pattern: All culture change begins with “fake it until you make it”.

Speaking of mixtapes and playlists, currently listening to one I recently built called Electric Goddess that is all female (or female led/voiced) electronica/chill/ethereal and I gotta say it’s pretty badass.

A screenshot of some of the list:

Finally upgraded the iPad and happened to be working on both it and my Mac. Lost the cursor for a second and realized I had moved it over to the iPad and could control both from the Mac trackpad and keyboard and forgot that feature was added and am now productively surprised.

My wife writes about the concussion our daughter sustained this weekend.

Never a dull moment in this house.

Personally, I feel like any news organization article, report, or investigation having to do with the ongoing coup and destruction of our democracy should not be behind a paywall. This is important. It matters. Free, accurate, reporting is essential to our survival.