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Evening lights 😊
Baltic Sea
Latvia 🇱🇻

#Latvia #Sea #BalticSea #Sunset

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Michael Beggs
Swimcart Beach East Coast Tasmania

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Evening lights 😊
Baltic Sea
Latvia 🇱🇻

#Latvia #Sea #BalticSea #Sunset

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Colour-coded bracelets. Yes. How very Nazi.

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L.U.C. & RB Film Orchestra feat. Tęgie Chłopy - Miłosny Opętaniec / Wole Wolta. Chłopi The Peasants
L.U.C. & RB Film Orchestra feat. Tęgie Chłopy - Miłosny Opętaniec / Wole Wolta. Chłopi The Peasants YouTube video by L.U.C.Films

Beautiful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7P0...

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Favourite films.
Chłopi
The Peasants
(2023)

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Georgia O'Keeffe 
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

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W. S. Merwin,
from what many consider
his finest book:
The Lice

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An abstracted seascape rendered in oils.

The thing about chaos and unrest and dis-ease is this: when it is calm for a moment, you no longer trust the calm. Even the stillness feels threatening; the quiet malevolent. I think that's where we are in all the madness circumnavigating the geopolitical globe.

I saw a post by a friend this week noting that she felt depressed, saddened - even though the problematic situations in her close perimeter were all resolved. And I feel a bit of this as well. No matter how much I accomplish, how beautiful the day, how peaceful our home life and how rested and nourished I am, there is a sense of dread. 

It feels unfair. Unfair to the people forced into bomb bunkers. Unfair to the detained and deported. Unfair to the marginalized, to those stripped of identity and rights, to those who are hungry or houseless or ill.  What have I to personally be unsettled about? Is it fair for me to feel this?

 Ah, yes, well my peace-loving, community- seeing self says this: we are all connected. And the more we lean into that connection, the more we allow ourselves to notice the strangely still water and allow ourselves to be wary and disturbed, the faster our response will be when our voices and actions our needed. We should feel ill at ease. Our global community hurts, and so must we.

An abstracted seascape rendered in oils. The thing about chaos and unrest and dis-ease is this: when it is calm for a moment, you no longer trust the calm. Even the stillness feels threatening; the quiet malevolent. I think that's where we are in all the madness circumnavigating the geopolitical globe. I saw a post by a friend this week noting that she felt depressed, saddened - even though the problematic situations in her close perimeter were all resolved. And I feel a bit of this as well. No matter how much I accomplish, how beautiful the day, how peaceful our home life and how rested and nourished I am, there is a sense of dread. It feels unfair. Unfair to the people forced into bomb bunkers. Unfair to the detained and deported. Unfair to the marginalized, to those stripped of identity and rights, to those who are hungry or houseless or ill. What have I to personally be unsettled about? Is it fair for me to feel this? Ah, yes, well my peace-loving, community- seeing self says this: we are all connected. And the more we lean into that connection, the more we allow ourselves to notice the strangely still water and allow ourselves to be wary and disturbed, the faster our response will be when our voices and actions our needed. We should feel ill at ease. Our global community hurts, and so must we.

How Strangely Still
oil on canvas paper
19 x 12

​How still,
How strangely still
The water is today.
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.
- LANGSTON HUGHES

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#art #painting #seascape #abstractseascape #oilpainting

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This is poetry from Langston Hughes and it reads I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

This is poetry from Langston Hughes and it reads I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Mood.

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Ukrainian artist,
Olesandro Vynk

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Lovely work.

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Evening Roll
Acrylic

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An evening sky, reflected in the clouds.

An evening sky, reflected in the clouds.

Twenty years ago.
#photography #sky 📷

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Come out tomorrow for another hour of poetry with two of our jurors and one of our most recent finalists!

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The end of Red Sparrow was highly satisfying.

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Yes, I am the granddaughter of a Bletchley codebreaker and spy and I enjoy a good spy thriller. Kleo is my favourite, though.

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Гніздо вивільги - Вночі / Оriole nest - А night song
Гніздо вивільги - Вночі / Оriole nest - А night song Гніздо вивільги - Вночі / Оriole nest - А night song

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBgI...

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A golden setting sun against an orange sky. There are silhouetted trees in both corners. 

📷 Dreamcatcher

A golden setting sun against an orange sky. There are silhouetted trees in both corners. 📷 Dreamcatcher

A gently glowing good night...

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Two Red-winged Blackbirds are perched on cattails. There is green grass in the background. 

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Two Red-winged Blackbirds are perched on cattails. There is green grass in the background. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Red-winged Blackbirds

Dueling birdcalls...

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Favourite films.
Red Sparrow
(2018)

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erasure poem with collage from "Classic Crimes"

erasure poem with collage from "Classic Crimes"

"April is one of the / broken folk"

a poem from Classic Crimes for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Sunset showing many different colors across the sky and clouds

Sunset showing many different colors across the sky and clouds

It's Day 19 of getting past negativity by posting some things that bring me joy. ☀️

I absolutely love light, and the sun, and the amazing things it does. The way the sun paints the sky with colors during sunset is so beautiful and magical, I am obsessed every time! 🌅

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Old photo: The Dying of the Light. A Christmas Day sunset, Fiskavaig Bay, Isle of Skye.

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j.lulu_photography
..Lulu🦋
📍Anna Maria Island, FL
Gulf of Mexico

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Streams of serenity...

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A glowing sky fading into the ocean, gentle and endlessly peaceful.

A glowing sky fading into the ocean, gentle and endlessly peaceful.

Collect the colors of the sky
and plant them
where snow forgets how to fall…

#PoeticEvening #westcoast #photography #ArtInNature #TheSkySpeaksSoftly #nature

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