Just put up a new blog post about my new adventure with Grove Creative Collective! Come check it out at lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/new-beginn..., and let me know what you think!
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I'm super excited to announce a new venture today! Come check us out at www.thegrovecreativecollective.com
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One of the most astonishing things about being in this kind of terrain is the way that history and time are exposed. These pictures are from Dinosaur National Monument, a place where you can see time layered in the rocks and on the surface of the rocks and the land.
A small bird with shimmering purple and green feathers perched on a branch, its dark head and beak contrasting with the iridescent body against a softly blurred green background.
Velvet-purple Coronet, one of my favorite hummers at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read!
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#blog #womensrights
Word of the Week: Malagrugrous
What a shame that the Oxford English Dictionary lists this word as obsolete! Should we band together and bring it back? Because, who doesn't need another word that means 'dismal' and 'gloomy?'
#wordoftheday
Spring, springing. (Soon to be sprung?)
#spring
San Timoteo Canyon from my most recent trip. Beautiful sky/clouds on both days I was there. The pictures are beautiful, but the place is also a strange mix of native and invasive plants, agriculture, industry, and even (because why not) an ancient rusted out truck sunk halfway into the earth.
I've taken two trips over the last month through deserts in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. What astonishing landscapes. I took this pic from the Spotted Wolf Canyon View Area on I-70 in Utah. If you ever pass through this area, stop at ALL the view areas. It is both beautiful and stark.
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read.
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#resistance
Does it say something about my psychology that I never remember to type the closing parenthesis? Should I just end every piece with a bunch of spare end parentheses so readers can insert as needed. Like this:
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Is anyone else parenthetically impaired?
#writingcommunity
Lisa's Word of the Week: There is something shocking in the idea that a democracy can willfully produce a kakistocracy. Also, picture of prairie with mountains behind.
Another in my occasional Word of the Week series (which is only nominally weekly… )
This is a worthwhile word to have in your back pocket. Also, it’s fun to say at cocktail parties!
“Kakistocracy: government by the worst people” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...)
Sometimes, for me, this means I don't know yet what it's about, and I have to go forward and then come back later because, by then, I'll know more about where/how/why it is or isn't needed. Either way, it's HARD work.
BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
Also, when you say it ,it sounds like electricity. 3/3
Merriam Webster definition: "the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies...in a gravitational system" (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...). It has also been used to refer to, among other things, a union of opposites (en.wikipedia.org/wiki…). 2/3
Picture of moon rising.
This is a word-loving reminder that, tonight, North America and part of South America will bask in the blood-red glow of a lunar eclipse. See svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5473 (courtesy of Nasa, which recently lost its chief scientist to the ongoing purge). 1/2
Word of the week:
Prevaricate: "To deviate from the truth" (Merriam Webster, <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate> )
Sincerity matters. Enough said.
WE GOT THIS!
Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
I just published a new blog post over on Substack. I would love to have you stop by for a read!
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
📚 An Ottoman Document Showing that Isa Efendi, a Book Enthusiast, Mortgaged His House in Exchange for Books he Purchased from a Woman Named Âlem Hâtun, 17th Century #BookStore #BookLover #Library
I love this quote!
For me, it feels worth remembering that all our fragile and incomplete social and political gains (women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, increases in racial equality) have required persistence across decades and even centuries. Persistence matters.
#womensmarch #peoplesmarch
I love the tie here to standing and how we stand up for rights, for another person, against injustice, against oppression. But, right now, I think that "re" prefix and its implied repetition, persistence, a willingness to stand up again (and again and again and again) is so important. 2/3
The word "resist" comes from a Latin root that means to cause to stand "sistere" and the prefix "re" which implies repetition.
To resist, then, is to stand (to take a position of personal power) for--or against--something. 1/3 ⬇️
How different things looked four years ago (after an equally free and fair election). The rule of law and peaceful transitions of power are fragile ideals. The most fundamental expectation of our elected officials (and of citizens) must be to uphold these Constitutionally enshrined ideals.
Yesterday, a free and fair (but, for many of us, heartbreaking) election was certified under the leadership of the party that lost the election. There was neither bombast nor tantrums. No one stormed the Capitol. Our current elected officials did their jobs as defined by the Constitution. 1/2 ⬇️
