Beach sunrise with a flock of shore birds

Thanks for answering. I’m even more confused :) but I guess that means it’s time for me to read more to get a better understanding!

Why through embassies rather than Tehran? To preserve one business toned voice?

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

Kamala would have been a brief stopper before this moment inevitably came just as Biden was and just as Hillary would have been because the establishment did not recognize the existential threat. Enough with the fantasies—be clear-eyed about this. I say this with respect.

Please read this thread to see how the news media slandered people like Martin Luther King Jr. for acting, boycotting, organizing, and protesting. It’s important to remember that this is not new and reform to the status quo has long been derided, even if we retrospectively remember King as obvious.

Because, to much of America, the only appropriate place to hold a protest is in the past.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Student & staff protests against Boston University's coercive removal of Pride flags call attention to the "myth of institutional neutrality."

“They’re not neutral in where they invest money, they’re not neutral when taking down the pride flags when American flags are still up all over campus.”

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring

It is morning, and again
I am the lucky person to be in it

Mary Oliver

🎨 Kaoru Yamada

What’s the $5k about? What is he trying to say/who is saving it how?

Yes.

It’s all so disappointing.

But the truth is the votes are flabbergasting from Western Europe too. So disappointing.

A person is allowed to still feel shock.

The US voted against that?

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

Esa Riippa (Finnish, b.1947)
"Morning Song,"
Etching with aquatint
20 x 27 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Moonlit road in Ojai. 8”x6” oil

Make the thing you want to exist in the world or support someone already working on it.

Painting looking up at a section of tree with branches in pink blossom against a blue sky

'Blooming Boughs"
Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Their loss. You have your freedom and they are bartering with theirs.

Painting featuring a sunrise or sunset over a wide beach landscape

Contemporary landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown captures the dramatic beauty of her home on the Pembrokeshire Coast, West Wales #WomensArt

Karen Winslow, Self-Portrait with Daughter Annie, 1988 #WomensArt
#MothersDay UK

Silence (Black Sun)
#art by Odilon Redon

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025
Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February….

#flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

Delphi, Greece, 1894. Archaeologists and workers pose in front of the statue of Antinous, which was unearthed near the Temple of Apollo in the sanctuary at Delphi.