Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high schoolers: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction... no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what’s inside you, to MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.”

National SO-111N Portable Phonograph & Keyboard (1960s) "Sometimes I think all I'm ever doing is trying to convince myself I'm alive" insheepsclothinghifi.com/japanese-por... youtu.be/ecIPJaxkZ7w?...

This tan suit kills fascists. #ObamaAppreciation

No Kings Protest Arvada, Colorado 6/14/26 For Democracy. For the future. For our children. For Good.

"As a child I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be human." Mobeen Hakeem mobeenhakeem.tumblr.com/my-writing Painting Misty Lindsey

Sonny Rollins 🎈

"I found out today, we're going wrong" youtu.be/eE-TTVNbdGE?... My cousin was killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." I wonder if he ever heard this song and what he might have thought about it. #MemorialDay

"The day the mountains move has come..." Yosano Akiko 1878-1942 Author Poet Feminist Pacifist Social Reformer (The anime/manga character from Bungo Stray Dogs is named for her.)

"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde 1934-1992 Professor Philosopher Poet Civil Rights Activist Intersectional Feminist

When your heart is breaking and all you can do it cry. Alexis Winter

"... like they're waiting for permission to live a little softer again." If you can, find someone to rescue... or let them find you. youtu.be/Eztcg8aDkIg?...

Don't you have anything better to do? I wish that someone could hug you Must be lonely Being angry Feeling over-looked You sit alone at home in the darkness With all the pent-up rage that you harness I'm real sorry 'Bout whatever happened to you youtu.be/iQVvSdymxmQ?...

"If there's something that you wanna hear You can sing it yourself" youtu.be/a_n3E8vnAfE?...

I play guitar. This is my sheet music: 🎨Cy Twombly "Untitled" 1967

Some want to destroy entire civilizations. Some want to repair what's been destroyed. After a Russian drone bombed Vlad's building in Hievakha, Ukraine, he managed to get out alive and even save his dog. Later, his charred guitar was found. Here is Tanya Shpachuk's restoration, part 1 of 10: 💙💛

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) “Surrealism is meant for me, because I am a pretty realistic person, but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed."

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) The Church 1936

We The People (2-legged, 4-legged, and bare-assed) No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

We The People No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

"Look at these three words written bigger than the rest, with special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, 'We the People' ... was not written for chiefs, or kings, or the warriors, or the rich or powerful, but for ALL the people!" - James T. Kirk #NoKings March 28

That will be 3 slaps. youtu.be/RuOEEu--j2Y?...

Jean Tinguely by Dennis Hopper 1963

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions) 1990 "Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes the longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?"

D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically... We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." #HowBooksBegin

Light is built a brick at a time.

See I Got Back Up Misty Lindsey

The most pathetic person in the world is someone with sight but refuses to see. Inspired by Helen Keller and her famous quote on vision.

@robklippel.bsky.social Thought you might like this. Be safe. 💙

When William Ernest Henley was 16 his left leg was amputated due to tuberculosis... even as he fought successfully to save his right leg. Several years later, in 1875, he wrote Invictus (Latin for unconquered). "Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed." - Invictus

Bloodied but unbowed. In 2020 Minneapolis protested the murder of George Floyd and were met with rubber bullets and tear gas. Now protesters are simply executed. We stand with Minneapolis... still and forever unbowed. Invictus. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

The Young Native Julien Jaca "When a fox walks lame the old rabbit jumps"

It Was Just an Accident is a film inspired by Jafar Panahi’s time in prison for speaking out against the Iranian government. “I sensed that I had to do something about the people who were still inside.” Should Panaji return to Iran he will face another year in prison. #JafarPanahi

Bob Weir 🎈

I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin' Like I'm born to be We dreamin' hard, we came so far Now I believe We're goin' up, up, up It's our moment You know together we're glowin' youtu.be/Be07t0pinjw?...

“I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to be Colored Me 1928

Hello 2026

"Applause, applause, life is our cause" Have a very Joni Christmas. youtu.be/r6NZ_2TuLf8?...

Maybe our journeys on this planet are not so different. "From the start I'll take out my ultimate weapon. For Earthlings, this method has always worked." From SOLA ❤️

“Everything continues. I am not interested in endings. What is important is transformation. Every substance, every thought, passes into something else. There is no death in this sense — only metamorphosis.” ~Joseph Beuys,1985

What does it mean to tell the truth in an authoritarian society? Image: Alberto Alicata

S.E. Hinton The Outsiders "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..." (Written at age 16 while she was still in high school... and my sister's favorite book.) #HowBooksBegin

Jimmy Cliff 🎈

David Schmitt She Is A Very Powerful Dreamer

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Alice Walker

Andy Warhol The Philosophy of Andy Warhol "I wake up and call B. B is anybody who helps me kill time. B is anybody and I am nobody. B and I." #HowBooksBegin

Meg White is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and sends her guitarist to accept the award. ✨

Julien Jaca If We Love, We Grieve 2025 (wood, plaster, resin, iron and acrylic)

“We arrived at Puerta del Sol and a group of people started throwing stones at us while shouting at the top of their lungs: 'faggots, faggots.' And we ran so they wouldn't hit us. And Federico [García Lorca] says: 'The worst thing is that we're not.' And Dalí: 'Yes, yes: we are.'” ― Maruja Mallo

Source: @kylec.bsky.social An amazing crowd and photo. No Kings, Denver, Colorado.

Oct. 18 No Kings Some pics from Colorado.