View looking south over Silver Lake Beach as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-12 03:06:35 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St Joseph: 49.26 F | 9.59 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 88%
Current* conditions near St Joseph, MI:
i still havent quite understood the difference between speciosa & rigidiuscula, not sure what I technically have
If you too want to join the goldenrod fanclub, please enjoy this handy-dandy little guide
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Author convo. w/ kindred spirit Kate Zambreno on parenting and teaching in the pandemic. Check out her new book. THE LIGHT ROOM, out today.
For your Juneteenth reading pleasure. Here’s why 2025 is the Summer of Marsha P. Johnson for me. time.com/7295713/how-...
Dr. Carla Hayden is hugged by a group of very, very excited library kids
“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
- Dr. Carla Hayden
We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚
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We also remember that slavery in its many forms continues to be waged on racialized bodies, Black & Brown, here on this land and world over. Trafficking and slavery driven by the machines of wannabe imperials & greedy industry. Slavers remain unapologetic. We seek a future free of all slavery!
Happy June 19! This Juneteenth, remember to send some green 💸 to our Black kin and comrades. Reparations to those who's ancestors lived and died at the hand of chattel slavery. Collectively, we refuse a repetition of this history. We are in solidarity with the struggle for liberation and autonomy.
Soon after Chonkosaurus, the city’s beloved celebrity snapping turtle, reemerged from the depths of the Chicago River last month, the giant reptile was seen snuggling with her long-term (and similarly proportioned) mate, Stagg.
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Antifascist actions you can take *right now*:
-wear a mask (any mask! three layer cloth, n-95, kn-94, hell even surgical is better than nothing), in the grocery store, mass transit, and medical settings, at least.
Kids should be in charge of naming everything. Gosh.
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3yo: "We are playing shop!"
Me: "Oh, are you the shopkeeper?"
3yo: "No, I am the shop *giver*. That's what I call it. Because I don't keep the things in my shop. I give them to people."
Video of the dust storm coming into Chicago this evening, as seen around Montrose Point — featuring birds, toad sounds, and people catching a fish.
Hundreds of millions of birds are flying through Chicago this week — here's how to protect them: blockclubchi.co/4mhuADs
Photo of a tiny Piping Plover bent over with her bill just an inch above the smooth wet sand of a dawn-lit beach as she picks at tiny red-orange things that turn out to be dozens of dead ladybugs littering the sand.
Lunch break bird photo! On Sunday at dawn, I was lying on the beach to get eye level with a Piping Plover. Picture me taking 100s of pics as Sea Rocket skittered closer & closer to where our group were all frozen in belly flops. Until this! You can see what she's eating! Sorry, ladybugs. #birds 🧵
Wild in the City, 2012, by Janis Goodman, Leeds-based printmaker. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Animated Indigenous series filled with friends of all kinds
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Welcome to the *stinky* side!
#wildonion #zhigaagoon #sikakoonki #wetlands #skunkcabbage #natureplay
Happy mothers day 💐 to all mommies out there, the bio moms, adoptive moms, rainbow moms, moms who are doing their best, soon to be moms, moms who are only mothers through acts of taking care of other peoples children. Thank you to the women who contribute to raising society with their best efforts 💟
A Dr from University College, Dublin, speaks of how children with Long Covid are more likely to be disbelieved and told to 'push through' than adults.
Read more: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/parenting/arid...
#LongCovid #PostCovid #PostViralFatigue
It is a great mistake to suppose, even tacitly, that the traditional schoolroom is not a place in which peoples had experiences. Yet this is tacitly assumed when progressive education as a plan of learning by experience is placed in sharp opposition to the old. The proper line of attack is that the experiences which were had, by pupils and teachers alike, were largely of a wrong kind. How many students, for example, were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them? How many acquired special skills by means of automatic drill so that their power of judgment and capacity to act intelligently in new situations is limited? How many came to associate the learning process with ennui and boredom? How many found what they did learn so foreign to the situations of life outside the school as to give them no power of control over the latter? How many came to associate books with dull drudgery, so that they were conditioned to all but flashy reading matter?
"How many students, for example, were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?...How many came to associate the learning process with ennui and boredom?... How many came to associate books with dull drudgery...?"
Named for the (non-brooding) male’s plumage, so not the name one might expect when seeing a female. This is a Red-winged Blackbird, her plumage beautifully camouflaged for brooding unseen on her nest. Still colorful undertones shine through her face. Could be named Sunset-faced Blackbird, Oankaree
Americans are in a new phase of grandparenthood, in which many seniors aren’t just disciplinarians or playmates but co-parents. Faith Hill on the new age of intensive grandparenting:
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
Share a teaching story about any of our reparations or climate change lessons, and we'll send you new edition of "Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice & Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery & Colonialism" via @haymarketbooks.org ⬇️
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Entrance to a Nature Play area at a forest preserve in the Wild Onion City. A living archway of willow boughs welcomes children and kinfolk down a flagstone path. Beyond the handcrafted fence a whimsical play-space can be made out through the bare trees surrounding the yard. A sign beside the entrance gives tips on mindful uses of the space with the word “Welcome” legible from this distance, and two people one tall and one small illustrated on said sign.
Another view from inside the Nature Play-space Stumps and things for climbing on, beams and boulders fill the space. One path is paved for wheelchair access and goes through another willow tunnel. The willows are budding out in golden green but otherwise the Forest in the background is bare, save for an oak holding on to last years brown leaves.
Looking forward to future activations in this space again! If you are in the area and interested in learning more feel free to reach out.
Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean children are breathing in viruses and pollution.
Parents trying to make the air safer often find it impossible to achieve the basic changes needed.
Solutions exist, but mean spending money to 'make the air safer'.
That's the bottom line, it's not science, it's money!
“The future of the field is hanging in the balance [and] it’s going to be important for us to be very wise in how we respond.”
— Shirin Vossoughi
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![A photo of a large lump of deer scat on the prairie floor; grass and oak leaves. A hand holds up a booklet beside it open to a page with an illustration closely resembling the scat that reads:
White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus
Winter [illustration of pellet scat]
D 08-1.3 cm
L 13-4 cm
Preferred browse
Acorns (espoilly white oak), cedar, Hemlock
Scat: Pellets soft, compressed: stick together in clumps or short, thick sections; found in forage areas.
Summer [illustration of lump scat similar to one shown above]
Preferred browse: tender young leaves and branches of hardwoods, saplings; non-woody plants.
Scat: smooth exicrior, saw dusty when broken apart; found in loose piles in forage areas or along trails.
Range: Throughout](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrc2sm3astz2b63v3ox7r4qp/bafkreiciqpj2ftzgxwwuebjbwbycj7k474raq6jz33hg7xgrruzt7dtr7y)
A photo of a large lump of deer scat on the prairie floor; grass and oak leaves. A hand holds up a booklet beside it open to a page with an illustration closely resembling the scat that reads: White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus Winter [illustration of pellet scat] D 08-1.3 cm L 13-4 cm Preferred browse Acorns (espoilly white oak), cedar, Hemlock Scat: Pellets soft, compressed: stick together in clumps or short, thick sections; found in forage areas. Summer [illustration of lump scat similar to one shown above] Preferred browse: tender young leaves and branches of hardwoods, saplings; non-woody plants. Scat: smooth exicrior, saw dusty when broken apart; found in loose piles in forage areas or along trails. Range: Throughout
Sometimes in the woods you run into weird s#*t. And sometimes it is right out of the textbook.
Eternally surprised every time a crocus uncreases
beauty refined
Consistently distraught every time a death is stolen
dignity strip-mined
Arrhythmically heart-dropped every time a missile
screams across the skyline
Tears keep pouring
rage keeps roiling
fuels stubborn joy divine:
we remain reminded
