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Meow Wolf - Convergence Station
Denver, Colorado
Monday morning 17 June 2024

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) Corpsman 3rd Class Demieli Wright, from Greensburg, Ind., conducts physical therapy screening at a Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) People wait in line at the Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) A woman waits her turn at the Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)

Located on Narragansett Bay, the original Shore Dinner Hall (shown on the postcard) was destroyed in 1954 by Hurricane Carol. A new, even larger hall was built to replace it, hailed as the World’s Largest Shore Dinner Hall, feeding nearly a half-million people who visited Rocky Point’s eatery each summer. The menu featured clam chowder, steamed clams, clam cakes, lobster, fish, corn on the cob, French fries, and watermelon. The most popular meal consisted of all-you-can-eat clam cakes, chowder, and watermelon for $1.50. By the year 2000, the price had risen to $12.95. [Source: WBSM.com]

Rocky Point Park opened in 1847 and was a favorite haunt in my youth. It closed in 1996. The Shore Dinner Hall served its last clam cake in 2000. They’re gone but not forgotten.

You must be this tall: The story of Rocky Point Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG5djZBthuc

This captivating image captures the bustling atmosphere of a popular eatery in Nara, Japan. The composition showcases a diverse crowd of patrons eagerly waiting in line, highlighting the communal experience of enjoying local cuisine. The warm glow from the restaurant's interior contrasts beautifully with the cooler tones of the street, creating a dynamic visual narrative. The intricate details of the shop's signage and the surrounding architecture add depth, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the cultural richness of this vibrant locale.

Contrary to the initial expectations about having interminable waiting, bureaucratic stonewalling and sidestepping, and micro-aggressions from overworked staff trapped in thankless positions, the process of messaging people personally to their own mobile device seemed to work smoothly and without grumbling from citizens and permanent residents seeking information, entitlements, or other face-to-face ways to solve problems. Even so, the presence of an armed guard at a desk at the edge of the rows of waiting room chairs is a reminder that some people arrive (or leave) agitated.

Much as readers are reminded the USA is the "richest" country in the world's history, this collection of people above and below the 65-year-old time of enrolling in Medicare health insurance and the increasingly delayed FRA (full-retirement age) to begin collecting monthly, COLA (cost of living adjustments) checks presents a picture of not-the-richest country. The top 400 asset holders maybe skew the national average far from the actual condition of most people; if not those 400 moguls, then the "one-percenters" who own half the country's wealth.

Instead of "rich country" citizens, this morning's group of 50 or so people come from various countries, with various health problems and disabilities - visible and not visible. There are some present for matters of social security payments and others present for matters of medicare, since the same federal service handles both.

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Food cart season is all year long in Madison, but summer is definitely when it's prime.

Always a line at Lockeford Sausage!

People waiting in line to get on the 99 bus at the Commercial-Broadway skytrain station.

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Hundreds of new Sudanese refugees wait for food distribution at the Kufrun site in the Ouaddai region of Chad.

They fled attacks from militias who act with impunity as Sudan descends into chaos.

© UNHCR, 2023 (photographer: Colin Delfosse). All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Union under conditions.

My world is shrinking, whether I like it or not. The supermarket, the pharmacy drive-through, and the Ethiopian restaurant. I need more people in my life so that I go more places. At least somewhere more than four blocks away from home.

A UNHCR staff member assists displaced families waiting to receive winter cash assistance in Kabul. UNHCR and partners have distributed winter cash payments to 1,000 displaced families in the Afghan capital. ; Nearly 700,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2021, joining 2.9 million Afghans already internally displaced across the country at the end of 2020. On 15 August, the Taliban took control of the country. The withdrawal of foreign aid has crippled the economy and led to a humanitarian crisis, with some?22.8 million people?in the country facing food insecurity.

Vancouver, Canada - Feb 21 2024: A black and white picture of people getting on a bus at a stop on Granville Street. There are many people waiting in line to get on the bus.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I’m flying from #LUX ( #Luxor ) to #CAI , ( #Cairo ) #finaldestination #ATH
My vacation, #Egypt and #Athens, #Greece2022

Photographed at River Falls Days
River Falls Wisconsin
Saturday July 15th, 2023

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