I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I believe you’re doing the best you can in some really hard circumstances.

Baird's Sandpiper showed well on #LittleMarsh at #LORP on the #OtterEstuary late pm.

This is for Thick-with-egrets-trunk Tuesday. Maybe. Good morning, Bluesky! #photography #egrets #trees #booksky #nature

Ruby Silvious, contemporary artist who utilises the teabag as her canvas #womensart #SundayMorning

If you aren’t sure how to start with poetry, just pick up a short book from your library (Dickinson is good and accessible, Berry, Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oliver, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou), sit down, and read it all the way through. It’ll change your life.

Mary Oliver, because of course: livelovesimple.com/the-uses-of-...

Turn off the news. Read a poem or two. Go outside. It won’t solve everything, but it will definitely help. Suggested poems below.

I forget what gen I am, but yes!

Great Blue Heron's know how to make an entrance #wildlife #naturelovers #birds #naturephotos #nature #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #makeanentrance #greatblueheron #heron #relaxing #meditation #photowalk #landing #birdsinflight #lakes #herons

I still believe in books. I will always believe in books. Books change lives. Books save lives. Reading is resistance.

I think I finally understand why no news is good news.

Billie Holiday (1915-1959), US jazz and swing music singer, aka"Lady Day" had a huge influence on jazz music with her unique singing style #WomensArt

Good morning, beloved. Every day is a new chance to try. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I'm in the mood to learn, so let's do Teachable Tuesday! Drop a cool fact, some neato knowledge, or anything YOU might know that you think WE probably don't! Teach us something today!

One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

Day by day, pieces of light' by Marlene Glickman, fiber artist #womensart

Good morning, beloved. People will not remember the way you believed. They will remember the way you loved. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890-91, colour print #WomensArt

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.

Three Graces, 1999 by Niki De Saint Phalle, #womensart #summer #august

Good morning, beloved. Joy is a powerful medicine, and it requires no prescription to administer. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I feel like everyone needs more weirdness and whimsy in their lives! 😅

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📚The BobzBlog is updated, newsletter subscribers got this in their email a few moments ago but it's also here: bobzbay.square.site/s/stories/8825 Updates include: ✨New bookmark of the month from Katie Heubi 📚 Bookstore Romance Day (tomorrow!) ✨ Books staff wants you to consume (aka staff picks)

My most boomer opinion is that I would prefer cable to streaming because I don’t want to pay for 10 separate streaming services to watch the shows I want to watch *waits to get jumped*

The ingredients for the perfect 4th of July thread have been with us all along

the muppets trying to steal the declaration of independence: thread

The Independence Day thread we deserve.

Our bookmark artist this month is Janean Baird. You can find Janean in her studio in Downtown Bloomington (101 W Monroe, Suite 210) or online at turquoisetangles.com. Janean is a fierce supporter of Downtown, supports artists at all levels, and is a fellow cat lover.

Not Alone Notes is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that mails free, handwritten letters to others with OCD and related disorders. They want to remind others they aren’t alone, encourage hope, and dispense resources. Find out more at notalonenotes.org/about/

Happy July! We've got a new bookmark of the month from the incredibly talented Janean Baird (@turquoisetangles.bsky.social), today is a profit share day for Not Alone Notes (10% of all purchases in-store or online on 7/1 get donated to them), AND our Disability Pride Month display is up.

Time to make a little Mother's Day magic happen! We want to send out some gift cards to our single moms/primary caretakers in our community today! If you can chip in $1, $5 or $10 we can brighten some days without much effort at all! Donate here: nowsherises.churchcenter.com/giving/to/ri...

For Mother’s Day.

Me to child: Let's try not to kill the bee. It is important to the environment. Other child: Yeah! How will I get my honey barbecue chicken?

Say “I love you” without saying those 3 words: Watch out for deer. Let me know when you get home. This reminded me of you.

Great tip from a tween online safety course: make sure to stack their algorithms with GOOD influences. You can do this with them! Teach them not to interact with negative posts too

UK artist Helen Musselwhite combines hand cutting, folding and scoring paper and card to create her artworks, which are often inspired by nature #WomensArt

'Showtime' by contemporary printmaker Vicky Oldfield #WomensArt

Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Aboriginal artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt

Josephine Baker (1906-1975), entertainer, French Resistance agent in WW2, civil rights activist and the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film 'Siren of the Tropics' #womensart

Artwork by contemporary printmaker and artist Lisa Stubbs #WomensArt #SpringEquinox

shows the muppets would enhance: thread

To my American friends - one thing I absolutely know you are great at is not letting a group of total weirdos tell you what you can and cannot do. This is your superpower and if you use it now, you will get your country back.

'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart

Name a show you're positive no one remembers but you.