To change culture - create MORE culture Culture is simply someone’s distinctive choice leap-frogging through time. New art, ideas, even silliness ripples until the pond shimmers in a new light. Take a stand on a Lily Pad of your own intention, leap, make ripples, create culture. #frog #needlefelt

Debate: a lake where ideas swim, A place where all surface a win.
Each throw threads with patient cast
Knit together warmth that lasts. Rage-bait: a troll cast for a fight,
Catching only shadows & spite.
Snagging threads that kept us warm,
Holes reside where stagnation forms.

Why are we more timid to talk of elephants than to be pierced by their ivory spear? We tiptoed around imagined exiles While being trampled under literal fear. … Talk of the elephants, talk of the pain We have a world to lose, but a whole love to gain. #Needlefelt #VisibleMending #elephantintheroom

Moms demand action Mothers demand care Mommy sprints, shoes in hand, Racing heart suffocating air Mama bear screams Ma writes a letter Mum is the word On when it will get better Mimi reads “Be Kind” While Mee Maw posts a plea Mommy mommy mommy… Who will protect me? #poetry #visiblemending

Ought we scold the sapling: “grow thicker bark!” As the axe is actively hewing its mark? Why, when our children are hunted here,
Do we cage their laughter and hand them fear? Bolt the doors! Draw curtains tight! Turn the daylight into night.
… (Continued in thread)

Creative experiences + experiencing creation. If everyone had more of both, how much would the world change? #needlefelt #nationalparks #nature #starfish #ocean #visiblemending

A blackbird gathers twig and stem,
to nest her littles from mayhem
But I, being human, must weave instead
with living love and worlds I’ve read. … Let our nests be rich with views, Braided ideas in many hues.
Let them read, let them decide Unfettered love on which to glide. #linocut #books #parent

I carried you for 9 months, now I carry a pit in my stomach  as I carry the weight of the world that treats us both as dispensable. … As I carry you in my arms, I carry conviction. I can’t carry a tune, but I’ll still sing to you so that someday when you carry this torch it will be a bit lighter.

Moms demand action Mothers demand care Mommy sprints, shoes in hand, Racing heart suffocating air Mama bear screams Ma writes a letter Mum is the word On when it will get better Mimi reads “Be Kind” While Mee Maw posts a plea Mommy mommy mommy… Who will protect me? #poetry #visiblemending

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Speak up for quiet places. Protect, preserve, and persevere for our parks. #mnartist #nationalparks #protectwildlife

If history only spilled 9 words of ink for you, what would you hope they would say? #WritingPrompt #MNartist #History #Linocut #Ink

As long as the geese return, we know it’ll be ok. #Lincout #Stamp #Patch #VisibleMending #Upcycle #MNArtist #Geese

It’s time to get up. It’s time to get going. You long for real change, but the sand keeps on flowing. You can theorize progress, quantify pain, but the hourglass whispers— inaction’s a chain. You data-analyze And armchair-philosophize, but… (Full poem on blog) #poem #linocut #visiblemending

It’s time to get up. It’s time to get going. You long for real change, but the sand keeps on flowing. You can theorize progress, quantify pain, but the hourglass whispers— inaction’s a chain. You data-analyze And armchair-philosophize, but… (Full poem on blog) #poem #linocut #visiblemending

Speak up for quiet places. Protect, preserve, and persevere for our parks. #mnartist #nationalparks #protectwildlife

If history only spilled 9 words of ink for you, what would you hope they would say? #WritingPrompt #MNartist #History #Linocut #Ink

And so she adapted again. #MNArtist #UpcycleArt

Be scrappy. “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.” A little color from your scrap there and a little texture from my scrap here, together we can make a vibrant whole. Be a trash panda and make an impact with what you can piece together. What scrap are you starting with?

Focus on what you can grow. What are you focusing on now to make a difference?