"The soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness." — Mary Oliver, 1990 Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs II. Largo, Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, composed in 1804. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Happy #MothersDay from Grand Teton National Park. "Wild moms in the Tetons have just a season or two to teach all the basics. It’s nonstop lessons: find food, stay close, watch for danger, and try to keep up. Spring brings calves, cubs, kits, and plenty of adorable moments." 💝

"One magical evening on Miyajima Island, Japan 🇯🇵." 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Daniel Kordan©

Paul Gauguin, French painter, 1848–1903. Mata Mua (In Olden Times), 1892. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid | Painting and Fine Arts

"The barred fruiteater is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. May be seen singly or in pairs, but several can gather around a fruiting tree." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Dorian Anderson© | Wondershots

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. To master the storm is to find the most profound kind of peace." — Sun Tzu, 512 BCE Turkish classical pianist İlyun Bürkev performs Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, composed in 1847. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Wishing all moms a joyous, blessed #MothersDay! With love and appreciation! 💝💐 Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter, 1573-1621. A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase on a Ledge with further Flowers, Shells and a Butterfly, 1609. Oil on copper. 📷 National Gallery, London

Thomas Hartley Cromek, British painter, 1809–1873. The Interior of the Lower Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 1839. Watercolor and gouache with gum arabic on paper. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Yale Center for British Art | Painting and Fine Arts

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…” — Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 From Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social

Beautiful performance of the Romani anthem by the Gandhi School Choir. Founded in 1992 in Pécs, the Gandhi School was the first high school for Romani students in Hungary and Europe — dedicated to excellence in education and celebrating Romani identity. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📹 Glen Adkins

Delighted to see the Hungarian nation rise to meet the moment. The joy on Budapest’s streets — on election night and at Péter Magyar’s inauguration today — has brought this soulful Brahms piece and Charlie Chaplin’s poignant quote back to life. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️

Claude Monet, French painter, 1840–1926. Argenteuil, Seen from the Small Arm of the Seine, 1872. Oil on canvas. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Painting and Fine Arts

In honor of the Romani boys ensemble from Sükösd who performed today at Péter Magyar’s inauguration in the Hungarian Parliament. Sharing the raw, heartbreaking lyrics of the Romani anthem, Zöld az erdő — a song soaked in centuries of pain, yet full of dignity and hope. ❤️‍🩹🇭🇺🕊️

“This is what you have shown this nation, and the world. History books will teach that light triumphs over darkness, love over hatred, and decency and integrity over evil.” — Prime Minister Péter Magyar at Kossuth Square 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ #LoveOverHatred 📷 kontroll.hu

On the turntables in front of the Hungarian Parliament on inauguration night? None other than Hungary's new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar. Welcome to a new era. 🇭🇺🪩🎧 📷 @telexhu.bsky.social

The celebration of Péter Magyar's inauguration — and the end of sixteen long years of the Orbán regime — continues well into the evening at the Hungarian Parliament at Kossuth Square in Budapest. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ 📷 Photo by Réka Pigniczky©

Easily the most heartwarming moment at Péter Magyar’s inauguration today: the Romani boys ensemble from the small town of Sükösd performing live in the Hungarian Parliament. Just as he promised them during his campaign stop last November. All the feels. 🙏🏼💝🕊️ 📹 Tamás Jónás

As openly gay Romani singer Ibolya Oláh began performing her anthem “Magyarország,” the cordons on Kossuth Square opened. The crowd surged forward, many walking across the reflecting pool. Beautiful symbolism of a new era of hope. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ 📹 @444.hu

"It's the first time in sixteen years that I've shown up here at Parliament with such a massive crowd — not to protest the government, but to celebrate the dawn of a new era." — Dora Mullner 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🌞

Just like King Charles III’s powerful speech to Congress at the end of April, Péter Magyar’s address to Parliament as the new Prime Minister is one for the ages. Democracy and the Rule of Law in Hungary just received a historic boost. ⚖️🇭🇺🕊️ 📷 @telexhu.bsky.social

Today marks the end of an era roiled by corruption, nepotism, kleptocracy, and wasted opportunity. The beginning of a new dawn, filled with hope and promise of a just, harmonious, and prosperous future. Congratulations, Péter Magyar! Congratulations, Hungarians! 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️

Speaker of the National Assembly Ágnes Forsthoffer ordered the European Union flag be returned to the Hungarian Parliament after a twelve-year absence. Forsthoffer called it a symbolic sign that "we will once again be respected members of the European Union." 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🕊️ #EuropeDay

"I do not look back as much as many of my fellow countrymen, but rather forward; I am less concerned with 'what we once were' and more with 'what we can and will become.' The past has fallen from our power, but we are the masters of our future". — István Széchenyi, 1830 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem Zoltán Kodály completed Missa Brevis during the seven-week Siege of Budapest —late 1944 to early 1945 — while sheltering in the basement of the Budapest Opera House. 🕯️🇭🇺🕊️

Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter, 1836–1904. Roses and Lilies, 1888. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nobody worked harder to hold Orbán accountable than Szabolcs Panyi. Must be an amazing moment for him, to see the NER regime go up in smoke. The end of an era, indeed. We owe so much to independent journalists around the globe. 🔥📢✊🏻

Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German-American painter, 1832-1932. Morning Fisherman, 1882. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Kennedy Galleries, New York | Senuri Nimaya

"Wir danken dir für deine große Herrlichkeit." (We give thee thanks for thy great glory.) — Ludwig van Beethoven, original sketchbook inscription for Symphony No. 6, 1808 Manfred Honeck and Verbier Festival Orchestra perform Beethoven, V. Allegretto, Symphony No. 6. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Hard to believe we’re in the final 24 hours of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power. My emotions swing from utter numbness to overwhelming gratitude. This is a long-overdue correction, delivered by a grassroots movement that finally said: enough! To a brighter future! 🙏🇭🇺🕊️

He passed away in 1999, but I will never stop admiring my namesake, Tibor Kalman, the influential Hungarian-born American graphic designer known for his provocative, socially conscious approach to design. His vision of humanity is something incredibly close to my heart. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

The 17th-century Hungarian kettős furulya is pure magic. Carved from a single piece of wood, it lets the player perform a soaring melody and a deep drone at the same time — creating a hauntingly beautiful polyphonic sound. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📹 Dávid Eredics, Söndörgő | TWMI©

The remarkable thing about Péter Magyar's stunning victory in Hungary, sweeping away the Orban regime's sixteen-year grip on power... ...is that from the word Go, he believed in himself, regardless the odds stacked against him. He willed "regime change" into existence. 🏆🇭🇺👏🏼

"Where fruit blossoms bloom beneath the towering snow mountains." A beautiful spring in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan 🇵🇰. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Marcellian Tan©

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." — Corrie ten Boom, 1977. Holocaust survivor and leader in the Dutch Resistance. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter, 1632–1675. Girl interrupted at her music, c. 1658. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 The Frick Collection, New York | Painting and Fine Arts

After over a decade of protests — many I personally marched in — Hungary achieved regime change on April 12th, ending Orbán’s 16-year grip on power. This video is a tribute to perseverance and a beacon of hope to everyone fighting for democracy worldwide. 🔥📢✊🏼 📹 Áron Müller

Frederic Edwin Church, American painter, 1826–1900. Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri | James Lancel McElhinney

"The Bar-crested Antshrike is a crested, insect-eating bird from the antbird family, found in the Andes of Colombia and Venezuela, known for its distinct black-and-white barring and a loud, laughing song." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Jason Tiesman© | Wondershots

"Sculpture of Leonardo da Vinci in a niche of the Uffizi Gallery colonnade in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹. This iconic work was sculpted by Luigi Pampaloni and completed around 1839." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Painting and Fine Arts

A moment of peace in the American West. Grand Tetons, Wyoming, USA. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Panch Belton©

Rest in Peace, Ted Turner. "Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded @cnn.com, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died Wednesday. He was 87." Ted Turner 🕯️ November 19, 1938 - May 6, 2026

To give you a sense of where things are heading in Hungary, two-thirds of Hungarians now want to see Viktor Orbán face trial for corruption, criminality, and malfeasance after his sixteen-year reign. How quickly things change. 😳 One for the history books, indeed. 📷 hvg.hu

"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." — Sir Thomas Browne, 1658 Conductor Marek Janowski and Orchestra of University Franz Liszt Weimar perform Richard Wagner, Siegfrieds Trauermusik, from Götterdämmerung, composed c. 1874. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"The Hungarian birch mouse (Csíkoshátú szöcskeegér), is one of Europe's rarest and most endangered small mammals. It is a strictly protected species found in the Borsodi-Mezőség Nature Reserve in northeastern Hungary." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Péter Molnár©

Francis Augustus Silva, American painter, 1835-1886. The Hudson at the Tappan Zee, 1876. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Brooklyn Museum | Jeannie Johnson

Lonely tree. Slovenia 🇸🇮. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Piotr Skrzypiec©

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, French painter, 1844-1925. The Grape Harvest, 1884. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Annaliese Hess

Thomas Cole, American painter, 1801-1848. View on the Catskill - Early Autumn, 1836. Oil on Canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Senuri Nimaya

Eystrahorn, Iceland 🇮🇸. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Garðar Ólafs©

Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter, 1830–1903. Chestnut trees in Osny, 1883. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Kunstmuseum Basel | Painting and Fine Arts