Swede’s Photographs<p>Good morning. ⏰🫘☕</p><p>19 June 2025</p><p>Today is a day off—not just from appointments, but from anything particularly planned. My wife likes to say I have every day off, which, technically, isn’t wrong. Still, there are always those little obligations—doctor’s appointments, errands, the usual suspects—that chip away at your time. And then there are the self-imposed routines: walks, weight training, things I choose to do but still schedule like they're mandatory. Even those eat into the quiet. Time I could be spending doing absolutely nothing—or just sitting in the backyard watching birds.</p><p>This particular day off happens to line up with Juneteenth, the national holiday that marks June 19, 1865—the day Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and announced that slavery had ended.</p><p>Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. Instead, it's a celebration of progress.” — Barack Obama</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morning</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/beach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beach</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Juneteenth</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dayoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dayoff</span></a></p>