They preempted regular programming for THIS rambling nonsense?? 🤦‍♀️

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die.” - John Steinbeck

Another Morning with Mary to start your day on a high note of possibility.💙📚She is correct here. ProTip: “Seeing is believing” is NOT the way of the universe; it’s actually the opposite: “Believing is seeing.” You must believe in order to See. Once you realize this, it changes EVERYTHING.😉🕊️
#poetry

Afternoon musings with Howard Zin. We the people have the infinite capacity to behave magnificently. It’s time to do so, every day in every little way. It all makes a difference.🕊️💙📚🕊️

Rather than doom-scrolling the news (STOP it already!) Start your mornings with Mary.💙📚Advice for moving forward: Do not give another second of your precious time & attention to an energy vampire who thrives on our tears & attention. Cut off the supply. Do not let them steal your Joy. Be like Mary.💙

Hello from the good world Just checking in feeling in a happy mood

pattismith.substack.com/p/hello-from...
THIS timely missive from Patti is so on target. We’re still alive & We have to do our work. It’s what we do in the face of grief. You claw back up & do your work. “We have to create our own Good World.” So Hello from the Good World. It’s ours to create.
#art

Good morning friends.🙋‍♀️Here’s a little morning musing from poet Jane Hirshfield to start your day on a reasonably affirmative foot. Joy still
stays Joy & sequins stay sequins …this is where our attention belongs. Art will save the world. This is a truth we can collectively get behind,eh?
💙📚
#poetry

Image of a quote from “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle

“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people." ~ Madeleine L'Engle
📚💙
#hope #courage #literature #GoodTrouble

Karen Armstrong is an excellent scholar & theologian- so accessible! I’ve read just about everything she’s written- which is a lot. Very prolific writer. Read it all!

Digital photo of a field in the fall in muted fall tones of brown, siena & gold with one bird flying overhead into blue-violet skies

Mornings w/ Mary💙📚

All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes..

It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life-just imagine that
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another. ~Mary Oliver
#poetry

Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance “Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle.”

Resistance takes many forms.

“Resist outrageous charts spelling doom.
However you can, rely on sun and wind.
Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle.”

~Louise Erdrich

#poetry #resistance #ArtWillSaveTheWorld

Color photograph of a wooded pathway trail on Cape Cod.

Good morning friends.🙋‍♀️We cannot let anyone steal our Joy. Stay on your path, the one that makes you feel alive to the precious privileges.

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius

#photography

The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said:

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."

The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!

Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. “Forever” by Judi Blume. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. All have been pulled from the shelves of some Florida schools, according to the latest list compiled...

This is what censorship looks like.

#education #censorship #libraries

apnews.com/article/book...

They cut it mid-season- damn! It seems especially relevant now though… the battle for humanity HAS begun. 🤖

Photograph of the forest on a misty, magical morning.

Mornings with Mary 💙📚

Sometimes
I need only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed
~ Mary Oliver

#poetry #photography

Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.

Yes, this. Exactly this. Enuff already with Dems abandoning the working class as a rationale & narrative. Not true, as evidenced by, you know, Facts & Reality. But this below, this is the key to understanding the results & outcomes. It’s information warfare.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Cannot bear to see his face or hear his voice. No thank you. Thus, no MSM news for me so long as they continue to allow his face & voice to appear on screen or in their audio feeds. Now I’m checking only Ground News for news updates.

A Lighthouse for Dark Times This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…

www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...
“…something was left standing, stirring — that same creative force that made of the chaos a new era of possibility never previously imagined: civil rights and women’s liberation, solar panels and antibiotics, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nina Simone.” #art

Morning Musings with Einstein: a few small acts goes a long way.💙📚💙

“ Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." -J.R.R. Tolkien

Text of a poem by Poet Mary Oliver on being kind.

Good morning friends. Please join me in beginning your day with an observational word from Poet Mary Oliver in a new daily practice bound to elevate your spirit, if even a wee bit. Rather than doom scrolling & news, try Morning Coffee with Mary.
💙📚💙

#poetry

So much for free speech & claims of censorship. So in this new timeline banning books and the use of regular English language in course descriptions is not censorship while allowing the spread of harmful & sometimes deadly misinformation & lies is? I see.

Yes, accurate observation of what’s happening.🤦‍♀️

Morning coffee with Mary.☕️💙📚 Take a moment to take it in on this fresh morning in our broken world.
#poetry

Morning coffee with Mary rather than the news. So refreshing! Take yourself out into the morning & find something- anything- that makes you smile. 💙📚
#poetry

Photo of a cat on a table in the sun.

What she’s doing.

ProTip for Today from MissUnderFoot: Go outside, get some Sun on yer belly & put your feet in the grass or yer butt on the ground. Get grounded & let some sun shine on you.
🐈☀️🐈 #cats #caturday #catpics

4 picture collage of headshots of Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter & the proposed chief of staff.

By my calculations, we’re at the 5th Harry Potter book when Dolores Umbridge takes over as Head Mistress & He-who-shall-not-be-named is trying to take over Hogwarts & the Ministry of Magic. Epic battle btwn the forces of Good & evil, Love & fear. Love wins in the end tho. So say we all.) #LoveWins

👇🏼👀👇🏼Books Unbanned
Freedom to Read

#bannedbooks
#libraries

“Little Miss Sunshine” with Steve Carnell, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin. Hysterical & heart warming. 🍿❣️🍿