Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Stay Curious and Curiouser 'Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.' - - Albert Einstein #BloomScrolling #Nature #AutumnsEnd #Reflections

“It is not what you look at that matters, but what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau #BloomScrolling #AutumnsEnd #RainyDay

"This day will never come again, and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today... You must play your part and sing a song, one of your best." - Herman Hesse #BloomScrolling #UpbeatFall

May you know that absence is alive with hidden presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten. May the absences in your life grow full of eternal echo. May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere where the presences that have left you dwell. - John O'Donahue #Autumn #BloomScrolling #Nature

“I am awaiting, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti #BloomScrolling #Nature #PoeticAutumn #MomentsOfAwe

October 22, 2025

She talks to the moon in the language of trees,ancient and rooted, the ways of sap. The moon talks back in the language of moons, shadow and light, the ways of water. The stones listen and translate what they hear into the slow stillness of stones. -D.Kester #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature

🍁 #MidweekMetta "And all the lives we’ve ever lived and all the lives to be …are full of trees and changing leaves..." -Virginia Woolf #BloomScrolling #Autumn #Nature

Climate changed quickly to cold and the trees burst into color, the reds and yellows you can’t believe. It isn’t only color but a glowing, as if the leaves gobbled the light of the autumn sun and then released it slowly. There’s a quality of fire in these colors. Steinbeck #BloomScrolling #Fall

My daughter finished hers at 4 am. This is her first protest.

True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.

“We can change, evolve. We can choose to move like water rather than molded like clay. Life spirals in, then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing.” - Terry Tempest Williams #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry

“You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes.Yellow pulls across the hills and thrums... - William Stafford #BloomScrolling #Autumn #Nature #Poetry

Take in the good news, too.

#AutumnShowers “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops” -Langston Hughes Umbrellas appeared today like mushrooms pop up on the forest floor after the rain #BloomScrolling #Nature

“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.”- Emerson A childhood mesmerized by the diverse shapes and colors of autumn leaves on trees arching overhead, shuffling through fallen carpets of gold and red on the sidewalk below 🍁 🍂 #BloomScrolling #Nature

Up that staircase the moon has built Her light through trees and rocks All memories bathing in poetry Let's go out and feel the night On this Harvest Moon #BloomScrolling #HarvestMoon #Nature

opening the book surprised to find my old story there with a new ending scent of old leave - what is dead brings such beautiful memories of youth -RWT #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

"Space is the Twin Sister of Time. If we have open space then we have open time to breathe, to dream, to dare, to play, to pray to move freely, so freely, in a world our minds have forgotten but our bodies remember" -Terry Tempest Williams #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

everything is falling leaves, water, the nation even the crows are silent

"At no other time, than autumn, does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; bitter where it borders on taste, and more honey-sweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, and darkness."- Rilke #BloomScrolling #Nature #Autumn

"October had tremendous possibility.The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles." - Sarah Guillory #BloomScrolling #Nature #Gingko #LabyrinthPath #October

October brings back showers Colorful leaves tugged by each breeze Will they hold on one more day #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalShift #Reflections

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall." ~ Oscar Wilde. Cemetery Path #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~ George Eliot #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

The end of September’s Swan Song bringing longer dark nights offers the hopeful reminder … "Now is the time to listen within, tend our inner garden mindfully until new flowers, new blessings can blossom." - Hermann Hesse #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

David Whyte - The Sun “... I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering." Trictyrtis Hirta #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #SeasonalCycles

like a lover so long missed... I give in to autumn's shivering touch daylight and nighttime in a slow dance tomorrow one will lead… #BloomScrolling #Equinox #SeasonalCycles #Nature

"Wake! The sky is light! Lead us to the road again." ~ Basho. #BloomScrolling #NatureCalls

September will be closing the gate to summer adventures this weekend as Autumn Equinox arrives Monday #BlloomScrollng #SayonaraSummer #SeasonalCycles

A Two Horse Day or A Three Dog Night ? Two often our summer begins and ends with wildfire haze tinted skies. #BloomScrolling #ClimateChange

“Today, my hope is vertical. Tomorrow it will be horizontal. The next day, cloudy. My hope is like a Greek myth: exchanging skin for bark, bark for scales, scales for the hollow bones of a bird. In these ways my hope attempts to escape its fate.” - Jane Hirshfield

“Study nature, love nature, Stay close to nature, it will never fail you.” - Frank Loyd Wright #BloomScrollng #Nature

"When you understand that every forest is having a conversation, every garden is singing beneath the soil, and every puddle contains a universe, you're remembering what concrete made you forget." Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot #BloomScrolling #Nature

"The Earth Laughs in Flowers" - Emerson “For myself, I was just passing by when the wind flared and the blossoms rustled and their glittering pandemonium leaned on me” - Mary Oliver #BloomScrolling #Nature

The Solace of Open Spaces - Gretal Erlich “The lessons of impermanence taught me … There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration... Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." #BloomScrolling #Nature #BeHereNow

"It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."- Mary Oliver Late Summer Landscape #BloomScrolling #ConnectToNature

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"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock September suddenly seized the end of summer.. #BloomScrolling #Nature

"Stay young, always, in the theater of your mind." ~ Mary Oliver #BloomScrolling #ShySunflower

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Who else remembers playing ‘King of the Hill’ summertime as a child, outside in someone’s yard or city park, laughing each time a new challenger sent you tumbling back down, running back up the grassy slope #KingBee #BloomScrolling

“There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration... Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” -GRETEL EHRLICH #BloomScrolling #Nature

“Enough of us see that we have a world to remake •We want to meet what is hard and hurting• We want to rise to what is beautiful and life giving• We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others” •Krista Tippett #BoomScrolling #Poetry

"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present.... Gratefully. " -Maya Angelo #BloomScrolling #Poetry

Mary Oliver “ My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.” #BloomScrolling #Poetry