Ever get the sense you're being followed?

Would certainly be interesting for my branch of the family tree to replant Canadian roots 🤔

"Sometimes I need my skin to touch the breeze / Sometimes I find beauty brings me down to my knees" - Rising Appalachia (White Mountains in NH from the eastern foothills in Vermont)

thank you bell hooks

Welcome to the world baby chickensaurus!

Remember the value of spreading hope

Moonlight

If anyone on here is in the Upper Valley of #NH or #Vermont please join us at upcoming Braver Angels workshop in Newbury on May 11th.

Buzzed off my winter face. most of it anyway. After 30 years of shaving I still have no idea what to do with facial hair. Anyway, periodic verification that I am indeed a human-shaped life form if anyone is keeping track 😂 Happy spring stick season from the northern piedmont ✌️👋💚🌱🌞

From 'Narwhal, Unicorn of the Sea' a Narwhal and Jelly Book by Ben Clanton, one of our family favorites. This page always makes me laugh.

Very relieved the state legislature appears to have decided to do this and a bit blown away by how quickly and passionately rural Vermonters came together and made this happen.

Involuntary painting ✨ 📷 #noticing

The cold chill of a foggy evening on the road home through mud season for no logical reason makes my heart warm.

The wood frogs call. The fog rolls through, percussed by tentative spring peeping. The spotted salamander, regent of the woodshed pending orb weavers' return, asks me why I still care. Peep peep. "It is a struggle," I admit. "For you," I say after a pause. "And them," I nod towards the boys' rooms.

embrace

In the space between thoughts, riding the paradox, where time dances the woodcock and owls are never satisfied with my reply.

Look, the tell is that they won't say "white hetcis Americans" because they don't want to talk about race or gender or how their ancestors and cousins are responsible for setting this whole thing off

There is no bottom. Do not appease.

A place of tranquility… my embroidery, The Bridge. I will be mentally transporting myself here today, feel free to join me. 😉 🪡🌿🌺🪷 Completely freehand stitched in July 2023. #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

Sunrise over the Presidential Range in #NH from the Northern Piedmont in #Vermont. May today be the day.

Very interesting and very telling.

Do you really think you are an ally? A resister? Part of the “Blue Wave”? Then you need to watch this. A little late—but still important!

Popped up on my five years ago memory thing. Fuel for the daily recommit to courageously tend the fires of light and love and justice

The circles we live in. With the state of the world, it feels crucial to stick together and lift each other up. My personal loss and grief over my mother has left me feeling even more vulnerable in a world that has gone insane. #monoprint #printmaking #art #grief #support #community

Jack in his happy place

Of all I have had the opportunity to listen to & read on social media, the mirrors in which I've looked to unlearn and relearn, aside the characteristics of white supremacy and www.dismantlingracism.org, Dr Johnathan Flowers' thread stands as the looking glass I see at myself in everyday.

Dismantle the lies of predestination, ableism, patriarchy, white supremacy, dominionism, imperialism & exceptionalism. Dismantle the profit engine of dehumanization, surveillance, exploitation, incarceration, eugenics, militarization, & endless war at home & abroad. Abolish. Reparate. Rematriate 🙏✊️✌️

Late day winter sun on the road home in #vermont

Subfloor is coming together faster now. Maybe a couple more night/weekend days jamming together. Think we are through most of the weird cuts and blocking. Song of the day for me was probably Stabbing Westward's Save Yourself. Haven't heard that in years. Man I used to dig them and Gravity Kills

😔 #vermont

#Vermont Democrats trying to push through a pretty sweeping ban on the possession of semiautomatic firearms

"The Man Nobody Knows" (no date listed) by British artist, PAUL HORTON (b.1958 in Birmingham). Pastel on paper #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Baltimore Mayor @mayorbmscott.bsky.social: “The more united we are, the more powerful we are.” #MLK2026

Old poem on my mind today for whatever reason. Words in alt. Also, one of my favorite "imaginary friend" portraits.

Organized Chaos ~ 📷 ~ Antje Woolum

I try to pause & ask: why do I feel compelled to speak, especially in response to someone else's post, or a random Internet comment? What is it I am hoping to accomplish? Is it uplifting? Kind? Truthful? Neccessary? Is it by the authentic me for connection? Or a performance, a projection, a shadow?

Fire & ICE. #crps every sec of every day. #art loose #sketchbook

Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the sky.. ~Kahlil Gibran #noedits #photography #trees #naturephotography #skylovers #eastcoastkin #imageandverse

The game is up, white folks whether you believe it or not. This one’s from your own people

Today I will see the beauty in imperfection and the power in diversity. Today I will listen closer. Today I will reflect deeper. Today I will forgive myself for yesterday and commit to being better.

@moderation.bsky.app Seems like an awful lot of Black and Brown people-especially women, are being targeted to have their voices silenced. All because they have the audacity to stand up to racists a-holes in their mentions. Your moderation services are being weaponized against them. Fix this shit

A resolution to restrict ICE activities in Vermont. Get it on the agenda for your next town selectboard meeting. Pass out copies at town meeting. When "other business" comes up, request that it is put on a future agenda. Get your town to discuss & pass this. www.whatdo-wedonow.com/blog-1-1/ice...

I wish more of my fellow men understood, allowing oneself to be vulnerable is one of the surest signs of true strength.

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

"Studs: A shorty story in gravity, momentum, and getting to the bottom of the hill."

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An ongoing un/raveling from seed towards star