The man behind this account

My wife worried our local knitting store would would be out of red yarn. She found instead a table in the middle of the store heaped with red yarns of every variety. “Is this for…?” “You betcha!” Red toques are suddenly in vogue around town.

One year later… I am more proud of my neighbors today than I ever thought possible. I am more ashamed of my country today than I ever thought possible.

It is Sunday. Act accordingly.

"Der Nationalsozialismus hat sich vorsichtig, in kleinen Dosen, durchgesetzt - man hat immer ein bisschen gewartet, bis das Gewissen der Welt die nächste Dosis vertrug." -Stefan Zweig- 

By the Ukrainian artist, Ivan Didovodiuk

My mother, Clara Irene. So often I'd waken to the muffled sound of her talking and singing quietly to herself downstairs, as she prepared breakfast. Just as I do to this day. I still hear her voice in mine. I smile some mornings, if only to see her reflected smile in the mirror.

"Bless me father, for my sins are insipid."

My default countenance. My normal state of mind.

“Self-discovery” Only around the margins do humans find themselves on the same page.

Morten Lasskogen

“We have to remember that what we see is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg.

#StreetArt in #Paris 20th #LesMursOntDesOreilles

#AmericanReadalong „…millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.“  Moby-Dick C111 Ill. Rockwell Kent

Teeilluminationskunst aus dem Büro.

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Forever & Ever Nicki Ault 2023

Ready for 15 days of skiing? 1921 Switzerland 🚲🇨🇭 #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #snow #自転車 #design #streetstyle #fun #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle #vélo #ski #winter #mountain 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️

Impossible to respect people that allow themselves to be openly robbed on this level. From Congress to the courts to ordinary voters, Americans have become slow, stupid and pathetic -- a citizenry incapable of operating our once-promising experiment with self-governance. We are, all of us, marks.

"Our lives are not our own... we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." ― The Revelation of Sonmi 451 #BookSky #FilmSky

Rest - Vilhelm Hammershoi

Igor Volkov, Untitled (watercolor on paper, 2025)

Roughly how my inner conscience works I watch myself as I watch myself watching myself Photograph by Mila Kucher

Max Richter’s music is pretty wonderful

We are defined by how we choose to fill in this blank.

Hit delete until the cows come home. It will never go away.

Moonlight in the Adirondacks, Rockwell Kent

Anette Björk Swensson, Sweden, 1956. Mirroring, Oil on canvas. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

Nobska Light 2015 #scape #landscape #CapeCod #EastCoastKin #photography #canon #photographersofBlueSky #lighthouse

#JamaisSansMonCafé ☕️☕️Un Bon café à tous ☕️☕️☕️

www.tumblr.com/brigantias-i... Gustaf Emanuelsson

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth. ― Carl Sagan

“I”m not against mothers. I’m against the ideology that expects children from every woman, and I am against the circumstances under which mothers must have their children."

Francisco Fonseca.

We skied our butts off in perfect conditions. In my head, or in the hills, I believe I heard the sound of music today. That, and what Richard wrote.

"Summer Night in the Garden" or "Cottage at Night" by British artist Nicholas Hely Hutchinson.

This day is already looking up. French apple tart plus two bonus turnovers! “The Galettes,” by Claude Monet (1882)

I spent a year working at a soaring airport building sailplane instrumentation here in Vermont. My boss owned an Austrian two-seater. When the thermals were popping he'd use me as ballast. Joyful days 😊 Photo: Jean-Baptiste Perlade's selfie taken whilst soaring above the French countryside.

"I return from our labor with sore knees and back, fingernails and hands caked with dirt. She floats back into the house cleaner, somehow less burdened, as if she spent the weekend burying all her heavy things, as if she whispered to something sacred and it whispered something back."

"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust."

Your moment of zen

Rudolf Koppitz, 1920

My wife will be making sparks with her knitting needles as soon as she has the red yarn in hand. Pattern’s only $5 and for a worthy cause.