Wayne Thiebaud. Of course. ❤️ Love this.

The surface of the sun on November 9th. #astronony #astrosky #astrophotography

Another Gray portrait. The complexity of these small lives blows me away.

Wheat Field with Cypresses - 1889 #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14713

Haven't posted a Gray portrait in a while! ‪@grays.art

A wondrous display of sea wolf intelligence. Pulling in crab traps! ❤️ Thanks for posting, @renatekappes.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #canine #wolf #animalbehavior

Turning desert back to trees, increasing rain, CO2 absorption, #hope for the impossible. An eco win! Love #Planet#Wild. I support them & this project. This is a little long for Bluesky, but 11 minutes of uplift & faith in people doing good things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5g6... #ecology #trees

Adrianna has a distinctive style, always delicate and nuanced. Love her photos

As for the current world, everything I love is under siege, and poetry is one way I feel alive under those conditions. It’s not about transcendence as much as presence. — Sal Randolph, in our POTW interview 💙

'Gathering Leaves' Ernest Biéler (b 1863- d.1948)

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” ✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring #BookWormSat

My friend #PatriciaLeeLewis is debuting her 1st novel, a West Texas story, on her 88th birthday today. Her huge heart has encouraged hundreds & hundreds of writers & it will be standing room only. Southern hospitality: a cowgirl breakfast at her book launch—coffee, biscuits and jam.

Worth remembering...again and again.

Here's a wonderful thing.

How I love the sound of dogs, clattering up the stairs behind me. Without turning to check, I know its Brio first, clicketty clicketty, clicking, and then, after hesitating (always), and at a polite distance, Luna. #dogs #Havanese #CotonDeTulear #love

A painting to stand with a moment, to be there.

Sometimes there's nothing more elegant than a snail.

What's a day without dogs? #dogs #Havanese #CotondeTulear

Pretty adorable.... www.youtube.com/shorts/qi7FK...

My senator.

Van Gogh - Landscape with House and Ploughman

This, from Ukraine today, from Yaroslava, so we don't forget, "and Victory (still a cat)." Perfect.

A friend's grandfather wouldn't unwrap gifts. Over the years, a room in his house filled with wrapped presents. I get it. All that hope, promise, and mystery. Plus, gotta love Wayne Thiebaud. Need some beauty just now, promise, mystery and pretty pastel colors. #art #painting #WayneThiebaud

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

November is my least favorite month— it's raw blandness. But there's beauty every day, isn't there?

This is cool. It's a macro photo of an abalone shell. Click on it to absorb the wonder. 👀❤️

Further research on biscuits for my friend's West Texas Novel Launch, the whole audience treated to a cowgirl breakfast—coffee, peach jam and biscuits. These, "Butter Swim Biscuits." It's mad science, ridiculously decadent, easy, and yummy. Science! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

Hello, tree!

Signs of fall.

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Leonard McCombe (British/American, 1923–2015) what a fabulous picture.

A #poem today. Addressed to a friend who, diagnosed with #cancer and still healthy enough, stopped living. Thinking how Catholic School taught us to live with death every day. One of those life lessons one needs to learn over and over. From Nightly at the Institute of the Possible. #poetry

This is interesting.

Just saying.

An inducement to soften, let out breath you might not know you are holding. Three minutes is a long time to pause on Bluesky... but... enjoy... The art of Eric Kaye and music of John Manchester. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur4...

These babies, and the people who raise them, the patience, the expertise, the years, the love it takes, to return them to the wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOy...

Sometimes I should remember to look straight up. What was over my head.

It's here! Pub Date Friday, and this week's new arrival is this beautiful memoir about a Chinese-American woman born in the US but raised in China, and coming back to the United States to live her immigrant story. Survival and triumph through strength. @karinkjensen

A practice batch of buttermilk biscuits—for a friend's cowgirl breakfast with the launch of her West Texas novel.

This, from Suzanna in Ireland this morning, almost as good as the "maa-maa-maas" of her ewes, and her horses galloping, and her pack of helper dogs of all sizes, including a cat or two, not to forget her dung beetles.

This. This is America. Take her back. Move her forward. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...

Love this. Can feel the zingy energy limb to limb.

I love when Bluesky transports me, no better than this moment: a thatched roof, warthogs grazing green, green grass, scooching on their knees, small lawn sculptures, a kitten watching, a sign, "Dream, Explore, Discover." Love it. Thank you, Kate Loves A Walk! 🤗❤️🤗

Something about Brio's bear....

Went looking for happy this morning on Bluesky, needing it, but this hour, found a tsunami of hate, anger and frustration as deep as I scroll, emotions running high...and how not? Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.

Rides

Day 3 of 30 Poems in November, a fund raising effort for The Center for New Americans, providing support & legal help for immigrants & refuges. Many efforts, antidotes—this is one. Contributing is a feel-good small deed... cnam.org/civi/pcp/inf... Though 30 poems? Not small, it turns out. 3 down.

Bonnard! So happy to think of him this morning, to have this painting to contemplate today. Love this.

I miss him. Echoing Christopher Webb, I'm glad he's back and saying what needs to be said by leadership.

I'll try to carry this with me today, longer than the moments it takes to post, come back to it, again & again with my crushed American heart. Peace, ru posts, p e a c e ☮️ peace peace peace say it breathe it pray meditate scream I otherwise feel powerless.