visitors drawing an owl in the Reading Museum galleries

Thanks to the artists at New Directions for delivering our Everybody's Welcome: BIG Artwork event today!

Some lovely drawings by our visitors ☺️

For all our events this week: rdguk.info/Family_Fun_a...

#RDG #RDGUK #NewDirections #FebruaryHalfTermFun

This is from James Clear - Author of "Atomic Habits"
#positivenergy #newdirections #besteffort

"Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you.

Your second task is to put maximum effort into it."

2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff I don’t know what I expected when this year began. Ever since 2020 it seems we have greeted each year with some measure of optimism—I mean how could it be worse than the one that just …

Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
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Trinity, because why not?

My new project (a book released in stages):
Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve - Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems

Sign-up:

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#cognitive #democracies #renewal #republic #learning #newdirections #systems

Period 22 | Day 6/6 | cage 4 | KH-Bro @captainmatt.bsky.social
Ready for another battle and new challenges! 😚🙇👊🖤🔒

#teamlocked #cagecheck #chastityclub #newdirections
@rugbyunion8.bsky.social
@srelcio.bsky.social @vancaged.bsky.social @roboticexperiment3.bsky.social

#tonightseffort #rippedpaperart #rippedpapercollage #newdirections

Opening plenary on #inclusive #language #testing - day 2 of the New Directions LatAm conference in Mexico City. #elt #esl #efl #britishcouncil #NewDirections

At the opening plenary panel discussion of New Directions LatAm in Mexico City: Current language policies, national and local tests in Latín America. #assessment #languagepolicy #NewDirections #NewDirectionsLatAm #elt #esl #efl

Through my eyes. #photography #photographer #countryroads #newdirections #ruralamerica #dirtroad

TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 678.1 with guest Alison Mills Newman is now available for listening on demand for free wherever you find podcasts Alison Mills Newman on the re-release of her autobiographical novel, Francisco Original Airdates: Feb. 14-17, 2025 TVC 678.1: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome back actress, author, songwri…

@tvconfidential.bsky.social Show No. 678.1 with guest #AlisonMillsNewman #TheTreeWidow #Julia about her novel #Francisco #NewDirections is now available for listening on demand for free wherever you find podcasts

New work. After 25 years of tattooing, I have become so conditioned to being “tight” that I need some relief and want to work in a looser style. I am completely self-taught when it comes to painting, and they may be crap, but I am enjoying the freedom.
#popsurrealism #newdirections #folkart

First book mail of 2025. #newdirections

#painting #allegory #Bayarea #gay #eastbay #fremont #gaydaddy #artist #painter #california #scruff #newdirections #ohlone #whatIdo #poppy #gayguy #acrylic #hairy #gayart #gayman #gaymen #muscle #musclebear #drawing #queer

Sold! Fremont California. Mission Peak flanked by two allegorical figures; Lake Elizabeth & an Ohlone. Fremont Cottonwood & California Poppy in the background
#painting #allegory #Bayarea #gay #eastbay #fremont #gaydaddy #artist #painter #california #scruff #newdirections #ohlone #whatIdo #poppy

What a joy to work with these brilliant scholars #AHA25 #NewDirections

Shannon Eaves, there is something intellectual/scholarly about survival. Taking Black women's ideas seriously #AHA25 #NewDirections

Crystal Moten, to what ends and why are Black women engaged in Black heritage making and public history? Can historiography hold the breadth of work that Black women public historians do? #AHA25 #NewDirections

Brandi Brimmer foregrounding Black women's relationship to the state and political cultures. Invoking Elsa Barkley Brown and Tera Hunter #AHA25 #NewDirections

Arielle Rochelin contemplating Black women's missional politics in Malawi and the Congo #AHA25 #NewDirections

Ashley Preston asking us what Black clubwomen can tell us about how to survive repressive regimes. How they laid the foundations for the modern Civil Rights movement #AHA25 #NewDirections

Crystal Moten is amplifying the labor of Black women public historians and the absence of their contributions in the historiography #AHA25 #NewDirections

Working away on my newest commission: #painting #allegory #neworleans #gay #gayguy #jacksonsquare #gaydaddy #artist #painter #hotmen #scruff #newdirections #bacchus #whatIdo #jeanlafitte #snacktime

Boom! Validation! One of the more obscure paintings in my City Cartouche series: Angola on the Lake SOLD this week.
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Acrylic on custom birch wood panel. 14” x 22”.
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#painting #allegory #niagarafalls #gay #gayguy #lakeerie #gaydaddy #artist #painter #scruff #newdirections #seneca #whatIdo

New on my blog, I've written about A TILER'S AFTERNOON by Lars Gustafsson, a wonderfully strange, sad, and haunting novella that is sure to find a place on my year-end list. Translated by Tom Geddes.
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#NewDirections #LarsGustafsson #bookreview

I read Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems (2016), a pocket-sized selection from the coffeetable-sized Gorgeous Nothings (2013). Facsimiles with (helpful) transcriptions, you feel as though you've been allowed to paw through Emily's top desk drawer.

#ChristineBurgin
#NewDirections

I read Sophokles' Women of Trachis, a "version" by Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1957 - he was still in St Elizabeth's).
A lively iteration of Heracles' tragedy, worth keeping around.

#NewDirections

More of this, this calendar (iykyk) year!
#NDHE #NewDirections #HigherEducation

Set Boundaries, Find Peace Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The instant New York Times best seller End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundari...

Have only made it thru chapter 1 but if you are also a people pleasing overachiever like me, you should read this (thank you to my awesome therapist) #boundaries #balance #newdirections #healthychoices
www.audible.com/pd/059339354...

Science & Art connect in Burks Lab: One new dissecting scope & camera lucida ordered for snail anatomy projects. #newdirections #overmyhead