"The Earl E. Bakken Center for #Spirituality & #Healing created this website to help you #build #resilience, learn #self-regulation practices that may help while experiencing #trauma, and #support your #well-being as you #recover from #traumatic #events." #MN sites.google.com/umn.edu/you-...

Why do caregivers of different conditions of dementia have so much in common? A recent blog post of mine for #dementia #caregivers looks at the impact of different types of dementia on the different areas of the #brain ... and where they intersect. #Alzheimer's leighherrick.com/dementia-not...

"Song for Alex Pretti" #Minneapolis #MN #protest #murder #resist #photography #nature #sunset #love #art #create

I made another #broadside-- a park in #Columbia #Heights, #MN not far from where #ICE abducted #Liam #Conejo #Ramos, the 5 year-old you've heard so much about. These are my neighbors. "It can't happen here"? It is. #environment #gestapo #nature #vss365 #poetry #resistance #poems #zen #lake

‪ We're doing a SHUTDOWN SOLIDARITY READ-IN in my community on Friday, January 23. Poems, writings, songs of Love/Resistance in the language of choice. Can you? #protest #boycott #walkout #read-in #join #solidarity #Minnesota #Minneapolis #march #resist #poetry #vss365 #LOVE #RESISTANCE #poems

Agency for Children Traumatized by ICE :: Do please share this. Many smaller communities such as mine (22K) are being devastated. Our children are traumatized. #agency #children #trauma #resist #campaign #ICE #write #letters #protest #postcards #draw #pictures #poems #vss365

Not my #image or #art. Waiting to hear whose it is. Meantime, #MINNESOTA!! #Ground #zero. #Test #site. Failure is not an option. #Minnesotans know how to handle #ICE .... Today? Today we are all Minnesota! #resist #anonymous #photo #protest #flag #Minneapolis

january 16 2026 in the distance a tinkling of chimes -- a sounding of whistles and horns -- while swirling in brevity a movement of murmurating snow crossing the frozen lake #poetry #zen #nature #frozen #lake #vss365 #abstraction #photography #poem #photo #resist

What to do with the GUTTER ICE TRIPTYCH?? Well, turn it into a flyer, of course! And this one with the correct date!!! #art #resist #create #protest #flyer #photography #flag #America #vss365 #ICE #gutter #triptych

What to do with the GUTTER ICE TRIPTYCH?? Well, turn it into a flyer, of course! #art #resist #create #protest #flyer #photography #flag #America #vss365 #ICE #gutter #triptych

Triptych #photography #USA #flag #ice #abstract #photo #vss365

‪ "in the relinquish of wait" (excerpt) by morning twisted oblique in the snow and heavily frozen ... the simple afternoon of it: One oak || One life The line and break between resistance and succumbing © Leigh Herrick #photography #poem #ice #abstract #vss365 #resist #photo #poetry

...Only the night walking away Only the blood dried from perfection... Only the hand without any roots Only the fitted groundless thought Only the Red Flowing River knows of the death in the Fairy Tale Forest © Leigh Herrick #photography #poetry #ice #abstract #vss365 #poem #resist #photo

Little Poem Big Problem Kristi Noem Should Add More Filler To Her Lips To Support All Those Lies Crossing Them #photography #ice #abstract #poetry #vss365

I created this "postcard" using the writing of the Chinese poet Tao Yaunming (365-427) as translated by John Minford in his (2018) Tao te Ching. The painting of the poet by Chen Hongshou is in the public domain (via Wiki Commons). #art #poetry #vss365 #painting #postcard #zen

"Clarity" #abstract #photography #surrealism

Autobiography of Sun #sun #nature #clouds #photography #environment

I Know Not Seems #abstract #photography #environment #surrealism

Second Shadow on the Wall #black/white #photography #shadow

Holiday time can be very straining for those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. Here is my blog post for anyone helping a loved one journey through dementia, and especially if end stage has begun. leighherrick.com/dementia-not... #Alzheimer's #dementia #caregiver

Hawk II #Christmas2025 #nature #vss365 #hawk #maple #tree #backyard #photography

Hawk and Crow. #Christmas #nature #vss365 #hawk #crow #tree #photography

Resurrection, Renewal, Rebirth, Recovery. This is the Promise. Of Earth and Ever-wise. Love and Joy come to you. #nature #gardening #rosemary #Christmas #Pagan #Resist #photography #vss365

The Quiet Life (from my book, Home Front) #poetry #nature #Vss365 #poem #aurora #photography #poet

Happy Solstice Everyone! (From my Autobiography of Sun series.) #winter #sunset #snow #photography #nature #solstice #sun

Shadow on the Wall #black/white #photography #shadow

A Thousand Leaves LeighHerrick.com #nature #trees #poetry #poem #snow #VSS365 #poet #photography #woods

Intensified Calm #woods #nature #snow #photography #minimalism

The Sleeping Lessons #nature #trees #poetry #poem #snow #VSS365 #poet #photography #woods

Autobiography of Rayleigh Scattering with Maple #nature #sky #trees #photography #fall

Autobiography of Forming Ice #nature #winter #photography #woods

Second Impression of A Super Moon #nature #photography #moon

Autobiography of Sun and Red #nature #environment #photo #woods #photography #lake

Impression of A Super Moon #moon #nature #environment #photography

Autobiography of Sun #Sun #Nature #Woods #Environment #photography

Autobiography of Sun #Sun #Fall #Nature #Photography #woods

Autobiography of Red #Trees #Fall #Nature #photography

"Control Shift" #photography #photo

Another #Moonshot Never tire of it. #Nature #photography #moon #cosmos #satellite

Pink Phlox from my #garden. I love #minutia. And then I'm torn between color or #black/white. #flowers #photography #nature #backyard

If you build it, they will come. Largest #bumblebee I've ever seen in the garden. At least 1 inch. A real #beauty. #photo #nature #environment #bee #marigold #photography

"Or Maybe 'the little white house'," my latest #mail #art is made from a #photo of #hydrangea from the yard.... #dada #fluxus #interact #resist

"Redacted Briefing of the Special #Theory." Mail art, front, with MusicMaster, AKA Thomas Cassidy. #mail #art #surreal #Dada #Fluxus #resist

"Non, Non--Pas Un Pipe" (sans doute d'apres #Magritte). More of my #mail #art. #surreal #dada #fluxus #resist

More #mail #art, envelope front, Dressing the Table with Silence #fluxus #dada #resist

Ice. #photo #photography #cosmic #surrealism

Fire #photo #fire #element #photography #cosmic

Here is my image I'll use for my next piece of #mail #art. #surrealism #photography #nature

"The Wayward Intention of Nature," my original #print for a #mail #art envelope. #Dada #Flux #photo #dragonfly #nature #photography

Hydrangea closeup #art #nature #environment #flower #hydrangea #garden #photo #photography