Making Gone with the Wind in the 1930s would be like making a movie about the 1950/60s today. It was relatively recent history.

Meijer Garden today!

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

Fresh watercolor. Taking a peaceful walk in my mind’s eye …

I can’t remember my original CompuServe numeric i.d. from before we could pick our own alpha-numeric names. But I was there in the forums back then.

marypete@compuserv.com 🙋🏻‍♀️

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Same! It’s how they show they love us. 🙂

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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Thank you 😄

Thank you! Will do. 😊

Product of my very first ever watercolor class ☺️

Routinely said around our once two-dog house, “Stop humping your sister.”

❤️

Colorful bubbles ... er, circles ... from Andrea Nelson's 30-day watercolor challenge. www.instagram.com/p/DS-HvyeDjx...

The one that got away. 😂

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

What a difference six months makes

Beautiful alt text. ❤️

Transplanted one of the final bits left of a once glorious dracena that my father gave me. He passed 15 years ago and this beauty slowly followed suite afterwards. I’m still counting on a resurrection of sorts, or at least a clawing back from the brink.

And now we wait …

Chocolate chip sourdough loaf fresh from the oven

Dare I share some terrific news? Our federal #PromiseNeighborhood grant received funding for our fifth year! It’s been a stressful few months living with uncertainty, but we kept the faith. A huge win for the children, youth, and families in Southeast Grand Rapids! grsepn.org

We’ve got a whole village here in East Grand Rapids MI! 😂

Nothing Is Ever Really Lost: Life Lessons from Walt Whitman’s ‘Continuities’ Continuities by Walt Whitman is a quiet manifesto against despair, a reminder that beneath every ending lies a pattern of return, renewal, and secret persistence.

Reading, too, is an act of continuity. A book written years ago becomes fully alive only when your present self meets it on the page. Your current fears and hopes lean over that text and draw something different from it than any other reader will. In that encounter, time bends:..... #booksky #books

Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate 🙂

I have that bowl, that shaker of dill weed, and my name is Mary. 😂

So they are going to affirm climate change is real.