God this poem is haunting me again.

Please read this thread to see how the news media slandered people like Martin Luther King Jr. for acting, boycotting, organizing, and protesting. It’s important to remember that this is not new and reform to the status quo has long been derided, even if we retrospectively remember King as obvious.

Because, to much of America, the only appropriate place to hold a protest is in the past.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Student & staff protests against Boston University's coercive removal of Pride flags call attention to the "myth of institutional neutrality." “They’re not neutral in where they invest money, they’re not neutral when taking down the pride flags when American flags are still up all over campus.”

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism #BookSky

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

Esa Riippa (Finnish, b.1947) "Morning Song," Etching with aquatint 20 x 27 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Moonlit road in Ojai. 8”x6” oil

Make the thing you want to exist in the world or support someone already working on it.

'Blooming Boughs" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Contemporary landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown captures the dramatic beauty of her home on the Pembrokeshire Coast, West Wales #WomensArt

Karen Winslow, Self-Portrait with Daughter Annie, 1988 #WomensArt #MothersDay UK

Silence (Black Sun) #art by Odilon Redon

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025 Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February…. #flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

Delphi, Greece, 1894. Archaeologists and workers pose in front of the statue of Antinous, which was unearthed near the Temple of Apollo in the sanctuary at Delphi.

amichai.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

my friend found someone here yesterday: deceased, frozen. if you knew the sidewalk that you tread on the alley that you rush past the side door through which you toss trash was the deathbed of another who took their last breath alone would you move different if you knew?

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

Yesterday was Mardi Gras. Kinda wish I had gone. Here’s a painting of a mossy tree on my morning dog walk when we stayed at Fontainebleau Park on the north shore.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Embroidery design by May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

Vivian Maier's (1926-2009) photographic self-portraits in mirrors, shadows, reflections, suggest her enigmatic persona, a shadowy presence behind her camera which enabled the capture of candid moments of life #WomensArt

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

This helped bring my heart rate down in the park today. #vancouver #canada #forest #moss

“The most chilling thing is what happens to society, but also to individuals. Fear becomes internalised, and we begin to censor our own thoughts. We wonder if the law will actually protect us if they come for us one day.”

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

“Kids Who Die” Langston Hughes, 1938

Hedda Sterne. Violin Lesson, 1944

Hedda Sterne. Moonlight, 1946

Mosab Abu Toha

“all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it…” - @clintsmithiii.bsky.social

Fred Leist composed this work one morning at 2am in 1942 overlooking the sea in Cornwall. He captures a moment when the world seems to be simplifying itself into light and shadow, losing substance and becoming dreamlike.

My quote of the day To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Orwell

In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.

The words you speak become the house you live in. Hafiz

Do not look either in front of behind, but within yourself. There is the point of departure. Edmond Jabes

Milan Kundera

Always loved this harrowing remnant (located at the Met).

Difficult Times, by Bertold Brecht (translated by Ron Slate)