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"Flowers of Sophia.... Flax, chicory, scabious". Excerpt from Denise Levertov. Poetry, politics, puns, coffee.

Real Name: Cynthia White

Gender: Female

Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Occupation: Disabilified former professor

Groups: History for Kossacks, PWB Peeps, Sustainable Food and Agriculture, DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY, Mental Health Awareness, Street Prophets, Twin Cities Kossacks, DK Fans of 90 for 90, bluesophie saved diaries, my saved diaries, GMO Saved Diaries, The Village

Hobbies: bad puns and gardening

Twitter: @CynthiaMN5

Diaries published: 19 (64 days since last diary on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 09:18 AM PDT)

Comments posted: 2429 (5 days since last comment on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 02:53 PM PST)

Diary frequency: seldom

Comment frequency: frequent

Total Recommends: 10530

Total Comment Ratings: 1060

Most Recommended Diary: Steinbeck: I'll be there, 45 comments, 59 recommends

People Following bluesophie: 70

bluesophie's Most Recent Diaries:

The United States can export excess US Wheat to countries in Africa.This can solve crises of famine.
I have been reading the excellent diaries written by RO37 about Ukraines's successes in the Black Sea and Ukraine's ability to begin limited shipping of wheat to countries in the Horn of Africa (Somalia and Ethiopia). And I want to say that I deeply...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 27 comments on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 09:18 AM PDT with 50 Recommends
We must do what is necessary: convict and sentence war criminals.
I present the following entries from Wikipedia with very little comment or analysis. I did not include the section of Wikipedia where it was noted that the Nazis tested their efficient killing gas on residents of a mental institution before they went...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 3 comments on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 11:04 AM PST with 3 Recommends
Highway Health: The case for electric vehicles
I recently walked over several overpasses over busy highways in a suburban area of Minneapolis. As I walked towards and over one of the overpasses, I could hear how much noisier the highway was when I was within a block of the highway. As I stood on...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 53 comments on Tue May 10, 2022 at 06:19 AM PDT with 18 Recommends
Advice from Nana Sophie
So, kids, pull up a chair on the porch. Yeah,no, that chair is fine, I’m still repainting and varnishing it. You’ve been hearing about inflation, which we haven’t had to deal with for a while. At least since the last time a Republican president was...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 14 comments on Tue Mar 15, 2022 at 10:53 PM PDT with 24 Recommends
Personal update - Still here. Working on self-care.
I haven’t written many diaries in a quite a while, and I haven’t had the energy to visit the site that often — I try to visit the site and read and rec a few diaries, but even adding comments has been exhausting. It has been a tough couple of years for...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 13 comments on Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 11:10 AM PST with 17 Recommends
Wait For It
Four years ago at this time of night, I was commenting in the silence of the shock of Trump's win. He had won by this time tonight. I and other ancient people of politics pulled on our knowledge of living through eight years of Reagan and four years of...
by bluesophie
Comment Count 9 comments on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 09:05 PM PST with 10 Recommends

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