“[H]ow do you radicalize middle-aged white women?" “You throw tear gas at them." — Neighborhood organizer quoted in the Chicago Tribune

#WordoftheDay #Spontaneity #MentalHealth #Wisdom

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

#WordoftheDay #Frolic 😊

Happy Caturday, friends! Cosette is coziest when sleeping upside down. 🙃

Looking at the world from a different perspective. #zen #nature #autumn #mentalhealth #mobilephotography

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Travel #MobilePhotography Reindeer in Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland (3:30 p.m.)

“…[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

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Travel #MobilePhotography #Buddha Buddha Dordenma Thimphu, Bhutan 169 feet (51.5 meters) tall

Fans of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules: Nurse Edna, Nurse Angela, and Dr. Larch are back in Irving’s new book, Queen Esther❣️

“Facem praetendit ardentem.” 🗽 “She holds aloft a burning torch.”

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Emily Dickinson speaks to us about persistence and resilience.

“I think I need a new ballot — I filled in the bubble too emphatically.”

1/2: With the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, the mayoral race in New York City, and Proposition 50 in California, we shouldn’t lose sight of “small” but crucial issues and elections facing voters across the country that are getting little or no media coverage. Today in Maine we’re…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Jason Brown, American figure skater

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Nature #Home #MobilePhotography November sunrise

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Nature #Autumn #MobileVideo Excerpts from “Fall, leaves, fall” — Emily Brontë “Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.”

Happy Caturday, friends! @mountainmusings.bsky.social @lorablack.bsky.social

(Feelings replaced with jokes, last day) 🐰🐰 everyone!

One more for #Halloween

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #Travel #MobilePhotography #Iceland Reynisdrangur Sea Stacks, Vik, Iceland

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 46) #Halloween

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Uluru (Ayers Rock) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Australia

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I’ve just learned from @prepekka98.bsky.social that today is National Cat Day. I told my two, and they could hardly contain their excitement.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock The Three Gossips Arches National Park, Utah

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 44) #Halloween @sagehlkl.bsky.social @raphmikey.bsky.social @jessehlkl.bsky.social

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.” — Fredrick Backman Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Trees in Autumn,” 1920/21

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Stalactites, Barton Creek Cave Reserve, Belize

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My annual Halloween decorating reminder: Keep a thought for the birds.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Yachats, Oregon

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Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Nature #Autumn #MobilePhotography #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills…” — William Wordsworth

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #Hope

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First I looked at @goodport.bsky.social’s autumn reflection photo on my phone, where it was pretty. Then I moved to the larger screen of my tablet, where I could see more clearly the pointillism effect that @carolannie.bsky.social mentioned in the comments. It’s ab fab on my desktop screen! 🍂🍁

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Travel #MobilePhotography “Sex + Death” Greenhouse, Sydney Botanic Gardens, 2006

Happy Caturday, friends! (Feelings replaced with jokes, day 40) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet

#ColorADay #BWFri #Travel

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#ColorADay #YellowThu #Nature #Autumn #MobilePhotography

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet