Saturday, April 25, 2026 be there & be square 🪩

Tough day, lots of speech on #genocide. But the things humans are capable of also include their capability to create from waste something unexpectedly wonderful. It’s important to continue seeing the beauty in small things. How else can we life a life worth living? #Woodstock #Snoopy #writing

ICE are the new Brown Shirts

calligraphic drift

CALL FOR ART 🛶🪁🎭 Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ according to @thestorygraph.com stats, these are the books I gave 5-stars to in 2025 (titles and authors in the alt text)

ice bright as lightening

& there in the middle of it all

sending ❤️

something magic still exists

The copies of our newspaper are here! What a beautiful thing! Order the first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now via @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social - it’s small but packed with visual poetry fun ❤️ I’m now off to post the contributors’ copies. www.thepoetrykiosk.com

insect eating plants Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia

Last Sat's square dance was so much fun! We danced with friends, neighbors, old folks, and kids who outlasted us all in energy. Countless "two head ladies chain across" w/ @rebecca-meek.bsky.social. Lots of people asking me this week "when's the next one?!" so stay tuned 🥰

morning, Lake St. George State Park, Maine

it's our wedding anniversary! 7 years married, 17 years making a life together. & it's the best life I can imagine 🤍

morning Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, Canada

Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, Canada This was a beautiful steep hike w/ several waterfalls. While climbing up rocks my husband uttered something that sounded to me like "hoo-rah" so I got "Come On Eileen" stuck in my head for several hours (toora, loora, funny how the mind works, eh?).

my dorky interview came out while I was on vacation... “There’s something about flow activities where you’re focused on what you’re doing. … It’s super cool holding hands with your neighbors and skipping around a room.” SQUARE DANCE 🕺 Sat Oct 4 💃 Be there + be square! recorder.com/2025/09/22/a...

we’re home! the time away felt like a complete reset & it was beautiful. scenic shots to follow 💙

I’m leaving the country for a couple of weeks of low-contact quality time. See you on the other side. 🤍🪩

“It could rightfully be called a perfect photograph, but it – and others like it – also pushed a lot of buttons.” (well yeah! a perfect photograph should, shouldn’t it?) great read 📸👇

Another day, another disintegrating piece of the supposed checks and balances.

closeup of a cut-paper poem lantern by Alexis Fedorjaczenko, on display in the UMASS Hampden Gallery Triennial juried by Fitchburg Art Museum Director Nick Capasso

Among various hats I wear, I'm the Fundraising Coordinator for Ashfield's all-volunteer Annual Fall Festival. So I've spent the day personalizing and sending those necessary solicitarions & including this sweet scene of our little town, taken early this morning while out buying milk.

the lake last night

I'm thrilled to share that my poem lanterns will be part of the University of Massachusetts Hampden Gallery Triennial exhibition, "Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future" On view: September 12 – December 3; Amherst, MA

From yesterday’s walk, a photo for a lovely site that creates space for crowd-sourced time-lapses of natural areas. The results are fun to watch and to be part of - check out one near to (or far from) you … www.chronolog.io/map

from within

I'm so horrified by the things I read that I read with one eye covered and even then I skim because we're only seven months in and already the country is rolling over and no one is righting the ship I thought we would I thought, ultimately, we would I did. I really thought the hero would be us.

sun pours down like dreams

August: brimming with lazy drift

final day of Bang on a Can’s LOUD weekend 2025 💜 Sō Percussion playing Julia Wolfe’s Forbidden Love (sounding to me like raindrops)

Tiny dancers Mitchell P #art

It's my favorite music festival of the year, LOUD weekend 💛 this is Melomane + some lovely people dancing across time signatures