I confess that, at times, I resist joy for fear of its loss, or because something bad is happening or is about to happen. "Don't be afraid of its plenty" calls me in the opposite direction. I'm grateful. #NationalPoetryMonth

Magical light.

Yosemite https://www.wikiart.org/en/albert-bierstadt/yosemite-1870

This is heartbreaking and infuriating. If I thought emailing my senators would do any good, I would.

Good morning. "It is quite the fragile god who needs political power to enforce their will. It is quite the powerful God who partners with peasants, is born in poverty, washes feet, heals the sick, advocates for the oppressed, is unjustly killed, and still changes the world." - Rev. Ben Cremer

An April Morning. 9°C and a gentle breeze. Deer on the ridge.

For this first day of National Poetry Month. From @josephfasano.bsky.social

@radiofreetom.bsky.social is spot on in this article: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“What kind of God,” indeed. (It’s not the God of the Bible, the God Trump, Inc., claim to follow. Have they forgotten that, according to the Bible, God created this planet. Why would he approve its destruction?)

A Sunny Aberdeen Morning. 12°C. Herring Gulls. ( Back in Yorkshire soon )

Brilliant colors.

On Top Of The Wolds. 8°C and a cold blustery wind. Starlings.

Good morning.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Strong Winds And Cloud. 9°C at Sancton Hill. Oilseed in flower.

Mary Oliver “…..the way the wild wrens sang though they hadn’t a penny in the bank….”

Glorious!

Across The Fields. 7°C and a chilly Northwesterly. Magpies.

Early Brightness. 8°C with more cloud approaching. Robins singing.

A sweeping and through provoking look at Robert Mueller. Sadly, the last of his kind.

Early Morning Sunlight. 6°C and rather chilly. Wagtails.

All these meteorologists saying, “Yippee! Another day in the 80’s!” are mildly annoying. This, I say, is discrimination against cold weather lovers. 🤦🏻‍♀️

This made me kinda tear up. 🥹 The last 15 months have been exhausting.

Blue Skies And Warm Sunshine. 13°C. Ladybirds.

An outstanding essay by Kate Bowler. “But psychologically, despair isn’t just feeling sad; it’s often a collapse of futurity. The future goes quiet. You don’t merely feel bad—you feel stuck in a story that has stopped moving.” open.substack.com/pub/katebowl...

Magnificent!

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

Morning Lanes. 5°C and breezy. Blackbirds.

Light in the forest ✨ #ThankfulThursday

The statistics cited below are beyond staggering. "Hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men." ~Longfellow

This quote by Eisenhower is an indictment of Trump and Hegseth’s childish war.

Sublime. 💛

Good morning. We have a few bluebirds checking out our birdhouses now.

A Peaceful Wolds Morning. 10°C and blue skies. Blackthorn in flower.

Why does Daylight Savings Time last for nearly 8 months and Standard Time for only 4? -signed, Disgruntled and Sleep Disrupted in MO www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-agin...

At The Scottish Border. 5°C and blue skies. Deer.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Over The Gate. 13°C and blue sky. Yellowhammers.

Glorious, indeed!

There she rises! The Full Worm Moon over my North Dorset garden just now at 18.30... A sight to behold. #FullMoon #WormMoon

Friends, read this thread and then go get this book. It'll break your heart, and as Mary Oliver wrote, "...by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world."

A Daffodil and some sunshine. Photo taken today here in Glastonbury.

Clear Skies. 8°C and no breeze. Chaffinches.

March Morning Skies. 12°C and a Southerly breeze. Plum blossom in the hedges

In his book,”Tattoos on the Heart,” Fr. Gregory Boyle advocates for a “compassion that can stand in awe of what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.” I thought about that a lot as I read & reread this astounding book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

More of this, please.

Guy who said he wouldn’t start a foreign war and attacked former Presidents for starting foreign wars and begged like a small child for a peace prize starts foreign war to distract from his guilt sexually assaulting under-aged girls with Jeffrey Epstein. Who could have seen that coming? Everyone.

Muddy Tracks. 9°C with sunshine and showers. Blackbirds. 🐦‍⬛