My adult children home for the holidays throwing out my bottle of expired Gulden's spicy brown mustard. My my how the tables have turned.

“Brenna’s next adventure” 4”x 6” #collage on canvas #ArtAdventCalendar day 24 originally published in @harpyhybrid.bsky.social

“Nothing has really happened until it has been described.” -- Virginia Woolf

My adult children home for the holidays throwing out my bottle of expired Gulden's spicy brown mustard. My my how the tables have turned.

Here is my last watercolor painting for #ArtAdventCalendar this year. Festive and fragile. 😉

“Brenna’s next adventure” 4”x 6” #collage on canvas #ArtAdventCalendar day 24 originally published in @harpyhybrid.bsky.social

“Two orange threads” 9” x 12” #collage on canvas #ArtAdventCalendar day 23

Do you love all things baseball? From stadium hotdogs to watching A League of Their Own? The National Baseball Poetry Festival is accepting entries to their annual contest through March 27. Free to enter. Limit one poem per person. #poets #baseball #poetrycontest

Robert Bly, born on this day in 1926

You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts. I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.

Writers, don’t miss submission calls closing between December 27 and 31! Browse our Calls for Submissions page for year-end opportunities at lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Spruce, Winter, Theodor Kittelsen.

Once a Talking Header, always a Talking Header.

cat walk

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The Otter King is a legendary otter from Celtic folklore, often depicted as a large, powerful beast leading a pack, with magical, protective fur that grants invincibility, but vulnerable only at a small white spot under its chin bringing misfortune to those who harm it. #ArtAdventCalendar

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

“Two orange threads” 9” x 12” #collage on canvas #ArtAdventCalendar day 23

For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment. When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 22 “vine-al-ly” 6” x 6” collage on paper

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22 Jumping back in as if I didn't miss the last two days.. This is my latest painting. I'm not 100% sure it's finished. Cat and mouse. #cats #art #paintings #catart #catpainting #catandmouse #acrylicpaintings #traditionalpainting #julialaing #tabbycats #ukartists

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery depicts the neurological fatigue of post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of #MECFS: neuraesthenia (2017).

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22 Another day, another dog. This time a black German Shepherd called Echo, drawn in coloured pencil. #canineart #germanshepherd #colouredpencilart #drawing #traditionalart

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar "This Way" mixed media collage.

Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar is from last December, a nature alphabet I made for a dear friend’s new baby 🐡

The final NewPages Newsletter of 2025 has been released! Enjoy 120+ submission opportunities + new book releases, new issues of great #litmags, & a writing prompt to help "shake things up"! #writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

My sister asked me if I started my Christmas baking and I said I bought a giant bag of Rolos from Walmart. but apparently that doesn’t count???

Our country is going full on white Christian Nationalism and outside of these platforms, people seem to be okay with it. When the sitting vice president says, white folks no longer have to apologize for being white. We are in deep trouble. Our leaders who aren't going along with it are impotent.

Over the weekend, JD Vance said: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.” That’s a longtime theme of white supremacists in America, as Vance no doubt knows. In this thread, I cite similar racist rhetoric using the “apology” theme. 1/6 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

Marianne Boruch

I enjoy most of this #ArtAdventCalendar carry on... the main thing is to throw something into the pond each day, even if it takes bloody HOURS Some flowers for day17 SPLASH!

#ArtAdventCalendar day 22 “vine-al-ly” 6” x 6” collage on paper

SIX IN A ROW‼️

#ArtAdventCalendar day 21 “neighborhood” 6”x 6” #collage on paper

Violence thrives in silence…

I still miss Jeff Skinner if you even care. #LetsGoBuffalo

🚨 The U.S. government’s attacks on corporate DEI are 100% ideological, 0% business related. Project 2025 white Christian nationalism on full display today, via JD Vance.

Things would be very different if more folks who look like me could tolerate sitting with discomfort. No one is asking us white people to apologize for just being white. People are asking us to take responsiblity for what whiteness means, as well as for the work of dismantling it. 1/2

Look at this little 13 1/2 year old cutie. (She is pretending to not be interested in the candy canes on the tree but we know better.)

😭 this cover gets me everytime youtu.be/tS-9LhrVeV8?...

What better poem for the first day, and first Sunday, of winter? Happy solstice, everyone. From Robert Hayden's Collected Poems. #poem #books #writing

.. light to dark | dark to light ..

Week 51 poetry collection for 2025:

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 our winter solstice: This is a linocut print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a procession of Kolędnicy, or Kolęda carollers through the woods to honour the sun at Winter Solstice. The tradition, also known as Koliada or kolędowanie, dates to pre-Christian times 🧵

#ArtAdventCalendar Encaustic Week. It’s the solstice and this painting is aptly titled “Winter Solstice”. This one sold through Space Gallery and I miss it. At least I took the time to photograph it well. #encausticart

#ArtAdventCalendar day 21 “neighborhood” 6”x 6” #collage on paper

The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released. “Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?” flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...