By green investiture,
anoint the waiting rock;
a gentle tongue
spending itself in moss, and

mortal noise grows hushed to hear a broken water pray

#vss365

Serra's Theme (after Couperin)

A friend's composition:

open.spotify.com/track/3nLpii...

More delights can be found on Spotify if you look for: Yelkouan

Jorge Luis Borges

"Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth"

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“Nothing is more beautiful than water.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky

“Everyone knows that time is water.”
—Susan Stewart

World’s Freshwater Fish in #Crisis, U.N. Report Finds. Over the last half century, populations of migratory freshwater #fish have dropped by 81 percent, according to a stark new U.N. report. #dknatur #dkpol

NASA's Blue Marble picture of Earth, from 1972

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

A view of the wetlands There are grasses all throughout the water and mountains in the background.

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.”
— Roald Dahl

till tomorrow🌾

Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper

Sinead O’Connor Was Right: It’s Time to Revisit Some of Pop Culture’s Most Maligned Women Sinead O’Connor was right: An excerpt from Allison T. Butler's The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture

"As a woman, to speak first, or even early, in the effort to push against injustice or to expose an ugly truth, is to risk scorn and, almost certainly, to undergo scathing attacks."

Happy Nowruz, New York City.
 
As Persian and other communities welcome the new year, I joined our team to learn about the Haft-seen table — a tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope.
 
Wishing you all a new year filled with peace, light, and understanding.

We are like the spider. We weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. This is true for the entire universe.

― The Upanishads

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Frustration is the sky
refusing to accept
that stillness is
its truest name,

yet here, the water holds
what heaven will not:
the world, inverted,
just the same.

#vss365

Dans “Surveiller et punir”, Michel Foucault décortique la naissance de la surveillance moderne, une forme de pouvoir invisible qui s’immisce jusque dans notre quotidien.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/F0W

Truth.

To quote Dr Martin Luther King "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that,"

Solidarity for the Jewish community today.

I can't help but wonder who and what this kind of action really serves?

Artwork Grace Yencer, a contemporary artist living and working in the US #womensart

#Treetops Emit #Ultraviolet Sparkles During #Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time

Link for more info and photos: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Allegations North Yorkshire Council showed "bias" in the approval process for gas extraction at Burniston, using a technique called a 'proppant squeeze' which many say is a form of fracking.

It's stated "formal technical submissions were either not uploaded or were lost".

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Václav Havel

A Wren stands on a wooden perch with its tailto the camera and head dramatically tilted upwards, giving the strong impression it’s purposefully looking away. The pose is exaggerated and comical, as if it’s turned away, pretending not to notice something right in front of it... such as the fact it's the start of another working week.

Me, choosing to ignore Monday.

#MondayMotivation

📷 @carlbovisnature.bsky.social

The sheer number of massive, completely avoidable, crises we are barreling towards in the name of short-term profit is astonishing.

We need to break with this Thatcherite, market knows best rubbish and plan for our future.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ‘The Little Prince’ (1943)

#Photography by Fabienne Cresens.

A wooden dock reaches out into the water at a lake at sunset.

"Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love."

-Jane Goodall

Elizabeth Fraser - She Moved Through the Fair YouTube video by Retro Hytta

🥀
youtu.be/eo4ovTPHfZM?...

#SpringArrivalSpotlights are back, and we’re kicking off with Chiffchaffs!

Flitting back from Southern Europe & North Africa through March-April, their sweet 'chiff-chaff' song is the sound of spring.

Listen for them in parks and hedgerows.

Have you heard one calling near you?

Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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Ieshia Evans and riot police during a protest against police brutality at the Baton Rouge police department in Louisiana on 9 July 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Bachman

Woman sits in front of riot police blocking the road to protect protesters during an anti-government march on 24 April 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun

Young girl faces down a riot policeman during a protest marking the country’s 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile on 11 September 2016. Photograph: Carlos Vera

Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham. Unsure of photo credit

#InternationalWomensDay

"I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights"
-Shirin Neshat
Iranian artist
#InternationalWomensDay

; river flows gently;
trickle of tranquility //
lulled softly to sleep.

#dailyhaikuprompt #tranquil #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #rive #water #photography #naturephotography #cornwall