IRL blue skys

· San Francisco

Today was a busy day, giving the first of my performance evaluations. I work with really great people, so it's easy to give, but it's just a lot of writing and talking. It was a gorgeous day in Oakland, and when I came home, there was blue sky for the first time in a long time in SF.

By way of good news, I recently read that this is a record year for Maine's Piping Plovers.

And two short things to read that come from work, and our "Politics of Health Session" coming up, which is focused on Midwifery.

First, just a few excerpted pages from the introduction and conclusion of Witches, Midwives and Nurses, which is a short book from the 1970s and a few years before Our Bodies Ourselves

Second, is just a few excerpted pages from Guardianas: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade. This is a book of first-person accounts of midwives in El Salvador living primarily in rural and marginalized communities.

These ribbony hills in the camera are beguiling. The first little hill is of average steepness. The second part is a much steeper grade but in the camera they look sort of equivalent.
Home sweet home
Shaft of light
Blue blue sky as seen outside my kitchen window
Quadruplets
Ginger (reminds me of the beach)

Have a wonderful day!

Sending oodles of love,

Tawnia

Bird List -

16 species today

Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Western Gull
Red-tailed Hawk
Black Phoebe
American Crow
Common Raven
Oak Titmouse
Bewick's Wren
European Starling
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
California Towhee