Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts, shares The Conversation.

Albany’s most vital stories currently go uncovered. Help us raise $50,000 by April 30 to fund Albany Scanner’s first reporter. We're ALL going to need to chip in to make daily news for Albany a reality. Join us!

New to the library? What are "Holds"? If you request an item (such as a book, magazine, or dvd), you place a "hold" on it to be next in line to check it out. You can request that item to be brought to your favorite branch and it will be sent to your branch. Then pick it up on the Holds shelf!

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Betty Reid Soskin, who taught about the Black experience during WWII at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. At 104, she was the oldest ranger serving at the NPS.

#printmaking #printsky #printmakers I tried a new technique of mixed media printmaking. I combined relief with drypoint to create this image. I'm encouraged by the result and will take it further.

The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.

Learning from a reviled and inspiring weed.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1923)

. www.bbc.com/news/videos/... granting personhood to other rivers on the planet has helped to save them... as an animist since childhood i heartily approve of this action! (i love the face on the cliff in the photo!) 💙💧🏞🕊

“Our son, Dhani, and I, like George’s friends, were spoiled by his rich and loving presence.” - Olivia “He taught me that anything can be accomplished as long as you set out to do it with love.” - Dhani Harrison Read more at www.instagram.com/p/DUvw5HRDM1....

A favorite..

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. - Kate DiCamillo

Huge mixed emotions about posting one of these out to the USA today. I'd really like this to stop being true right about now, but if anything it seems truer than ever: abuse of power, corruption, abuse of women and girls, the ignoring of survivors, a lack of justice.....

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Play again :) #freedom

Looking forward to this, put together by the most San Francisco person I know!

“You have to overpower hatred with love, not more hatred.” - George Harrison, Rolling Stone (April 19, 1979) Photo by Brian Aris. #GeorgeHarrison

The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. Carl Jung

The reason of emotion – Bruce Lee's unpublished writings on willpower, imagination, and confidence www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/06/b...

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ” -William S. Burroughs #BOTD Francis Bacon and William S. Burroughs in London, 1989

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. – Maya Angelou

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Loved her more after reading her biography.

Truth...

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It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ― William Carlos Williams, from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower #Poetry

“The Beatles were the first white act of any stature that I ever saw in my life who came out and said, ‘Hey, man, we grew up listening to Black music and we love it…’“ - Smokey Robinson More at www.instagram.com/reel/DUV_40_.... 🎥: George interviewed by Cathy McGowan (Ready, Steady, Go!, 1964).

I hope the goblin king takes somebody away...

#printsky #printmaking #mokuhanga #watercolor Attempted my first multi-block moku hanga print. The pigment/water/nori ratio eluded me the first two blocks, but by block 3 I understood it. I did cut some things away that I meant to print, but not bad for a first try.

The former Berkeley High transfer student won twice for the hit song “Folded.”

“I mean, I think every human is obligated to the next in a way. To try to help each other, even if it’s just to give each other a smile.” - George Harrison, press clipping (1976) Read more at www.instagram.com/p/DUJJBKTDa6... Photo by Michael Putland #GeorgeHarrison

Today, on Fred Korematsu Day, we honor the man whose refusal to comply with the mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II became one of the most significant challenges to government authority in U.S. history.

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." Mary Oliver on creativity: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/m...

Count me in...

"They never dreamed that they would be threatened with deportation and indefinite detention. It was shocking to them and heartbreaking to realize that their citizenship wasn't going to protect them." Satsuki Ina on the lingering trauma of the US government's incarceration of Japanese Americans:

If advocates gather enough signatures, a sales tax will appear on the November ballot to fund BART, AC Transit and other transit agencies.

Still relevant.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

“[T]he people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We’ve got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.”
- George Harrison, The New Sun (1990)

So will I

#printmaking #art More art and ideas from my newsletter. Enjoy... www.aprilgavin.net/post/in-prog...

The song finds a heart.

#readandplay (594) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky The Alarm - Marching On youtu.be/IW748zglJx0

Justice doesn’t come from silence.

Say it George!

I’ll be showing a number of my hand-painted books this Saturday 17 January from 1-3pm at The Fourth Wall Gallery, 473 25th St, Oakland, CA 94612. Please drop by!

#printsky #printmaking #woodcut #ginkgo #nature #art My new press has paid off and I'm making more art than ever. I used basswood for this carving. Due to the design, I was able to achieve multiple variations. The third variation was inked a la poupee' and looks more painterly.