A 1,000 year old sacred camphor tree, known as Ookusu (or Goshinboku), located within the grounds of Atsuta Jingu shrine in Nagoya, Japan. It is believed to be a source of spiritual energy. A shimenawa (sacred rope) is tied around the tree, marking it as a holy site in the Shinto religion.

🍂 A final flicker The old stones hardly stir They've seen it all before From my wife's walk yesterday:

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Bach / Lasser / Dinnerstein. youtu.be/_NvcJ7u6BUQ?...

Heretic Coffee in Portland, Oregon has announced that starting Nov 1st they will provide breakfast to those in the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November. "we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee #Pinks

Whoa now, have a listen... "This is a mushroom playing in the wild in some woods near Glossop in Manchester. The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the robotic arms."

I always enjoy Thomas Merton 💛

Wow, so cool! 😎💚🇮🇪

This is fascinating indeed. "Now, evidence is growing that, faced with a climate crisis, the [Caral] civilization did not disappear but adapted and moved." "[Peruvian archaeologist, Ruth] Shady believes Peruvians can learn much from their ancestors about 'living in harmony with nature'."

Rainbow through the archway. This morning on Glastonbury Tor.

#ImageAndVerse #Stars #ShakespeareSunday #Nature #Stunday #MobilePhotography

Morocco, 1985. Photo by Bruno Barbey.

"'Sometimes, a single bandage, maybe a few tablets or even just holding patients' hands and talking to him [is] all we have to offer. But it means a lot[.]'" "'Every act of care [...] is a way of saying to the world: We are still here and our lives matter and the lives of [the] Sudanese matter.'"

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” ― Dorothea Lange

"If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted. This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works."

Ode to the distinguished, exquisite potato. The most clever and dazzling fare. 💚 ✨🥔✨🥔🥔✨☘️✨

Steve's song. Queen, featuring David Bowie. 🦦

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different:

"People often dismissed [our stories] as being childish, primitive, and maybe even superstitious ... but the knowledge was entwined in those stories, and away from the public setting we often told longer versions where the real knowledge was kept." ~Tlingit Elder/Storyteller David Kanosh

Henri Manuel (1874–1947) Portrait de Colette.

"The treaty [...] establishes a global framework to conserve biodiversity to enable the creation of marine protected areas [...]" "'The ocean is our planet’s blue heart and only together can we keep it thriving and beating strong.'" [said High Seas Alliance Director, Rebecca Hubbard.]

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“'[Trump's] head is in the sand, or it’s in the pockets of Big Oil and other carbon interests. He’s selling out your health, he’s selling out our kids’ future, for a quick buck.'” “'We have to convince more people of how serious this is [...] I think we can (do this), and we need to.'”

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"The leaders of the planet’s three biggest polluters, China, the United States and India, were completely absent from the preliminary gathering ahead of climate talks that begin next week."

A California delegation, including Gavin Newsom, is participating in the Belém, Brazil 30th Conference of the Parties for the UN Climate Change Conference. Thank goodness the US has some adults showing up in the world to behave like responsible, caring human beings.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. ~ Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ #Painting (detail) John Everett Millais, ‘Ophelia,’ 1851.

I love the painting and the title. "Not all who teach us about love are human" 🖤💛

How beautiful. ✨✨

Main detail from a Japanese painting titled "Tiger" by Rogetsu Yoshimi Yutaka (1808-1909).

Once again it's #FungiFriday and not a minute too soon! #Photography #Mushroom #Fungi #Shroom #Woodland #Nature #Friday #OMSystem #Macro

The nekomata is a legendary cat yōkai from Japanese folklore that is distinguished by its two tails. According to folklore, a regular domestic cat can transform into a nekomata when it grows very old and its tail splits. Nabeta Gyokuei: Nekomata from The Illustrated Book of Monsters

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

“…[S]top a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy Last night’s Beaver Moon, the last and brightest supermoon of 2025. #RandomBeauty #Nature #MobilePhotography

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919)

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🌾 "The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life. ... it is exact and plumb as gravitation." - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, c. 1855 From my wife's walk:

Evil beyond words. Republicans institutionalize sadism.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot... Excellent long piece on the printed word and the decline of literacy

Renaissance job interview. #SundayFunnies

The gathering. Life attracts life. Like attracts like. No life is separate or unconnected. We belong together. Have a great Thursday BlueSkyers

Rainbow over Stirling Castle. I’ve always seen many many more rainbows in Scotland than I do in the Charente Maritime. I guess Sun and rain together are more common in Scotland. #photography #castles #scape #rainbow

"One Great Basin bristlecone pine in California named Methuselah has been measured at more than 4,850 years old [...] A cypress in Chile, meanwhile, has a ring count of more than 3,650." "Paleobotanists know some of the oldest surviving genera [...] — Ginkgo and Araucaria."

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?