My dear Jan Lamberton Smith singing at Paradiso earlier this year: youtu.be/LJy8bA1TvQ0?...

Happy to be in this new anthology, and glad their mailers aren’t lined with plastic bubbles too! Thank you Gunpowder Press, Chryss, and Diana.

“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.” Hannah Arendt's classic on love and loss

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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This week's oasis of selected sanities, in a single place at the link – the kiln and the quantum of relationships, an illustrated love letter to gardening, Rockwell Kent on how to break the trance of near-living and live: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

I’ve raised 4 generations of Luna moths since April & released over 150 beauties into the wild night. In late October, my 62 cocoons decided “nope” & are overwintering, meaning they’ll just hang out in their sleeping bags until spring. I make sure they still wiggle every couple weeks. 💚#naturalist

Today's plan for Chicago: www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

Flocculent Cloud in a Basket aka Mr. Usha

Eggtempera on panel, 50 x 70 cm.

Selfmade eggtempera on panel, 18 x 24 cm, 2025

Thank you, Molly! <3 www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

"On the Origin of Species" was published on this day in 1859. Here are the charming doodles Darwin's kids left all over his epochal manuscript:

Even flying is born out of nothing. Li-Young Lee, ‘One Heart’

Gorgeous poem, Joseph Fasano.

The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

"Time has never existed, and never will; it is a purely artificial arrangement. It is eternity now, it always was eternity, and always will be." Gorgeous read from a gorgeous mind:

Wonderful, unusual read on the art of allowing ourselves to change, of believing we can