“In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After
In honor of 314 DAY, I decided to make 3 collages using some of the photos I took. I like incorporating nature with blackness, so that's why I added a lot of flowers.
You can visit IG @somewhereinstl or YouTube @ayaevolve for the version with music.
121.) My Gateway Arch sweater. The back features the courthouse, which is directly across the field from the arch and is featured together with the arch on some souvenirs. Made for my trip to St. Louis in June 2018. Hopefully will become a T-shirt someday. #sambarsky #sambarskysweaters #sambarskyknitter #knit #knitting #knitter #art #artist #sweater #intarsia #handknit #gatewayarch #arch #gatewayarchstlouis #gatewayarchstl #archstlouis #archstl #archsaintlouis #stlouis #saintlouis #stl #stlouiscourthouse #yourarch #courthouse (at Gateway Arch) https://www.instagram.com/p/CruQnMdtI0z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
ST. LOUIS — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a visit to Missouri on Tuesday would not commit to supporting bipartisan legislation meant to compensate people who have been exposed to radioactive material from U.S. weapons development and production.“I can’t speak for the administration on that particular piece because I just don’t know the answer,” Granholm told reporters, “but it certainly is something worth looking at for sure to bring justice to the families that have been affected.”
Granholm was in St. Louis to tout projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million battery materials manufacturing facility. Her visit comes as her agency faces calls from activists and elected officials to clean up sites contaminated decades ago with nuclear waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project.
In her remarks, Granholm didn’t mention the region’s struggle with radioactive waste. But she took questions on the subject. Later in the day, she visited a contaminated site in St. Charles County with U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis.“There is no doubt that we have to clean up these sites,” Granholm said, “and there’s no doubt that the testing and remediation is ongoing now…We’ve got to make sure that people feel safe.”
The St. Louis area was pivotal to the development of the first atomic bomb, and the Manhattan Project casts a long shadow over the region. Sites where uranium was processed or stored have been contaminated for decades, leading to higher cancer risks in some areas.
The issue has been covered extensively over the years, but a six-month investigation by The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press found that federal officials and private companies either downplayed or failed to fully investigate the extent of radioactive contamination in St. Louis and St. Charles counties, allowing generations of families to be exposed.
The findings prompted renewed calls for an end to the decades-long environmental disaster.
Ahhh! It’s painfully early! 🫠 I’m getting out of bed at a time I normally would be going to bed. Ha! But it’s time to get ready to head to my flight to #stlouis this morning to film the #xxxmasmovie!!! I’m excited to see some old & new friends on this set! I’m even getting a bodycast made of myself ON SET! I’ve never had that done before! 😳 To hear more behind the scenes info on my film projects & more: http://JessaDoesItAll.com 📸: @jennacitrus (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNG4p_OwLX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
One Minute Reflection – 25 August – ‘ … Let us be watchful to observe and to do the Lord’s precepts.’
One Minute Reflection – 25 August – St Louis IX (1214-1270) Confessor, King of France – Wisdom 10:10-14, Luke 19:12-26
“I say to you that to everyone who has, shall be given but from him, who does not have, even that which he has, shall be taken away.” – Luke 19;26
REFLECTION – “The Lord was looking to our days when He said, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8) We…