#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025 :: We celebrated with #resistance & #resilience! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 (Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bicycle in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common…) #BostonPride #NoKings #PrideMonth #Boston

#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025 We celebrate with #resistance & #resilience (Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bike in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common)

Join Greater Boston’s largest & most popular outdoor/indoor dance event: our 15th annual Dance for World Community Festival in Harvard Sq on 6/7. It’s a free, public, all-day event featuring performances and classes from 60+ local dance companies! Visit www.danceforworldcommunity.org/festival

Rhododendrons blooming wildly in June!

“I found myself in JUMBO, a large collection of local alternative rockers and others who played barely-recognizable versions of the most ubiquitous circus tunes…and showed how a big group with a thoroughly playful attitude can be a bulwark against both musical dissonance and a fear of wrong notes.”

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Strength to Love,” 1963. #MLKDay

Today — January 6 — both Canada and the United States take steps to install their new leaders — in very different ways! #electoraldemocracy #canadianpolitics #uspolitics #january6

Photos from the last walk in the woods for 2024… #SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #December31

A foggy winter day in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the last Sunday of 2024 :: #SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #nofilter #CambMA

Remembering Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) :: poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-mo... #poetry #nikkigiovanni

A Picture Says a Thousand Words: a brief anatomy of a spontaneous photograph. There’s so much going on in this photograph! First, it’s unedited, uncropped, and it’s not using a telephoto lens or a digital zoom — it’s just a photo taken spontaneously with my iPhone. #SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #photograph

Scenes from today’s walk in Somerville and Cambridge :: #SeeTheBeauty #Camberville #flowers

A chilly, windy, and beautiful fall-becoming-winter afternoon… #SeeTheBeauty

On this rainy #December evening, I’m oddly delighted that my iPhone made this video from some of my best flower photos all by itself, and just offered it to me… Check it out! #SeeTheBeauty of #flowers by #Siri & me :-)

In an alternate universe, we would all have been listening to The Turkees… #turkeysofcambridge #beatles

As seen this afternoon in Somerville and Cambridge during a nice walk on a beautiful December day…. #SeeTheBeauty #Camberville

Winter is a-coming :: Scenes from the heart of Cambridge, Mass. #SeeTheBeauty #CambMA

#ReadThis “…The oligarchs bring to our fascism its libertarian entry point: they preach that government is the source of all evil. As we yield to that logic, the hydrocarbon oligarchs drill away at the earth and the digital oligarchs at our minds. A weakened government can control neither….”

First hints of snow this winter… ❄️ #SeeTheBeauty #CambMASnow #NewEnglandWinter

Evening comes so early this time of year… #SeeTheBeauty #December #EveningLight

“…Thanksgiving can be a tender and challenging day when you’re grieving. For many of us, it’s a time filled with traditions and togetherness, but it’s also when the absence of a loved one can feel most profound…” — Heather Stang :: heatherstang.com/missing-your... #Thanksgiving #mindfulness

On this #Thanksgiving Day, I’m remembering all of the reminders to celebrate that exist in this broken and beautiful world…. #SeeTheBeauty #Resilience

Day 10: Accept that Small Actions Matter. Grand gestures are rare; it’s the small, persistent acts of care and resistance that shape the world. Plant seeds, even if you may never see them grow. #Persistance as #resistance & #resilience

Day 9: Embody the World You Wish to Create. Let your daily actions reflect the justice, kindness, and solidarity you wish to see. In a broken world, simply living with integrity and kindness is a profound act of resistance. #Resilience as #resistance • #justice, #kindness, #integrity & #solidarity

Day 8: Practice Radical Generosity. Give of yourself—your time, resources, and energy—not because others “deserve” it, but because you recognize our shared humanity. Generosity nourishes our collective resilience, and it keeps you grounded in what matters. #Resilience as #resistance

Day 7: Pursue Truth Relentlessly. In a culture flooded with propaganda and misinformation, seek truth with a fierce commitment. Challenge narratives that obscure power dynamics or excuse exploitation, and use your voice to amplify perspectives that are too often silenced < www.propublica.org >.

Day 6: Build Resilient Communities. Foster connections in your local community that resist isolation and strengthen mutual support. Communities rooted in trust and solidarity can withstand more and offer real resistance to a world designed to divide and control. #Resilience as #resistance

Day 5: Embrace Vulnerability and Compassion Allow yourself to feel and show vulnerability, even when it hurts. Genuine compassion requires you to be present with pain—your own and others’. Lean into the discomfort and let it guide you toward actions that restore and heal.

Day 4: Engage in Nonviolent Resistance.
Find ways to resist oppression and injustice without perpetuating cycles of harm. Nonviolence is not passive www.filmsforaction.org/articles/wha... #Resilience as #resistance

Day 3: Take Responsibility for Your Actions. Acknowledge the role you play in maintaining or challenging the status quo. Recognize that every decision—how you spend money, what conversations you engage in, what you support or oppose—reflects your values and shapes the world around you.

Day 2: Resist the Allure of Cynicism In a world riddled with injustice, cynicism can be a refuge. Resist it. Stay open to small acts of beauty, courage, and integrity—they are the seeds of a better future. #Resilience as #resistance

Day 1: Hold onto Radical Empathy Seek to understand others deeply, especially those you disagree with. Acknowledge the humanity in everyone www.filmsforaction.org/articles/uni... and resist the urge to demonize. #Resilience as #resistance @filmsforaction

Introducing a 10-day virtual meditation: I’ll be sharing the 10 points in “Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World” by Tim Hjersted, inspired by the wisdom quoted in the image (author unknown). These “instructions” and the ideas they link to are healing & powerful. bit.ly/10instructions

When you suddenly realize that you didn’t post the good photo instead of the out-of-focus photo… #DailyFlowers #SeeTheBeauty #Gazania

I’ve seen this a lot recently and have been hesitant to repost as I find it difficult to define the phrase “your disagreement is rooted in my oppression,” but it also resonates with me….

Another gorgeous day for walking in Cambridge, Mass. #SeeTheBeauty #CambMA #NewEnglandFall

November 17, 2010 :: Inman St., Cambridge, Massachusetts #SeeTheBeauty #CambMA #sidewalkart

A cartoon by Will McPhail from the @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy in 2017: www.facebook.com/share/12Bt1T...

“There's no way around the devastating reality of what has happened. We now enter an even more challenging time. But remember this: authoritarianism feeds on hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. We must lean into agency, community, and love. As much as you can, go there.” — @ianbassin.bsky.social

Just a reminder to keep seeing the beauty in the world around you. #SeeTheBeauty #Resilience