A Yellow Warbler sits in a flowering tree on a sunny spring morning. Photo and caption by Mark Olsen.
Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
- from "Wild Wild" by Mary Oliver 🌱
Everyone that ever called me a cat lady wanted to be one of my cats
& cannolis
So irresponsible to build these incredibly flammable warehouses.
“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Isn’t he played by John Ritter? Yeah I need a breathing exercise just remembering it
Whenever I'm daydreaming on an airplane, I'm just zooming around these islands
Screenshot from Riven
He is riven
Where follower count and existing engagement seem to act as gatekeepers
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to be the only human being on the court
Ripe red delicious apple in the palm of a person’s hand.
and the ripeness
of the apple
is its downfall.
- Mary Oliver, The Orchard 🌱
I'm still in this stage
Protesting private equity ✅
Wow, I didn't expect this to end with repeated insecurity about not being a doctor himself. Didn't guess that's where he was headed. Wouldn't want to be distracted by credentials when we could be talking about Epstein.
The degree to which I'm willing and able to embarrass myself cannot be overstated
Silhouette of trees. Photo by Oleh Mordach.
Your clarity shines light into systems that rely on staying in the shadows. 🌱
It's disgusting to hear that lady talk trash about the birth mom -- and other birth moms from her other two adoptions that fell through. Very eye opening.
She’s stronger than she looks
a photo of two cats near a window watching the snow fall. bottom left, there is a fluffy multi colored cat on a chair. towards the middle right, is a black cat in the window. you’ll also see two disco balls, white curtains and some twinkle lights.
blizzard of 26’ observers
You can hear it through my headphones while I'm gardening 🪴
What about the Gen X women UNDER 50? How did they grow up! I must know!@
Yellow and purple crocus blooming in the sunlight
Three purple crocus flowers. One pointed at the camera we can see it’s orange stamen
How many kinds of love
might there be in the world,
and how many formations might they make
and who am I ever
to imagine I could know
such a marvelous business?
- from On the Beach by Mary Oliver 🌱
At first, I thought this was about the Marathon gas station around the corner from me
Isn’t misogyny all about approval- seeking from men they perceive as better & stronger? It’s a loyalty display from a weak, infirm old man.
Image of the Milky Way, 650 million light years of dense pink and yellow clouds of cosmic gas. This is the largest image of the Milky Way's center, captured by the ESO's ALMA array. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Longmore et al./ESO/D. Minniti et al.(background)
He burned his house down for the fire insurance
And spent the proceeds on a telescope
To satisfy a lifelong curiosity
About our place among the infinities.
- from the Star-Splitter by Robert Frost 🔭 🧪
Wait I need her to do the “who did you vote for?” impression again. If I can just hear it three or four more times maybe I’ll finally give af
We can't even get rid of something as universally despised as Daylight Savings Time
A Baklava Balaclava
This is okay though www.etsy.com/listing/7308...
Men in Ohio call balaclavas “baklava.”