"The Blue Scarf Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded In smooth, running patterns, a soft stuff, with dark knotted fringes, it lies there, Warm from a woman’s soft shoulders, & my fingers close on it caressing. Where is she, the woman who wore it? ..." Amy Lowell

"...It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown." Bishop www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52192/...

This is fabulous… stop rushing and ‘smell the roses’ 🌹 Happy Sunday morning to you 😎

Also running in Woodbridge today: #VOTE

How the world could know peace… love 💗

#FridayNightParties Time🎉 Please also check @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social for time of each party and of course @ltwlauren.bsky.social party below! And here is just 1 of manyof her awesome fabulous starter packs go.bsky.app/4dK467s

VOTE TOMORROW!

TONIGHT: @abigailspanberger.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

🗽 #acorns ❤️

"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground." - Rosa Parks

From L’etoile du Nord by @matthewjdowd.bsky.social "...When the compass Of our country seems broken Citizens of every shape color & kind Point a clear way To our true north A star guiding us On a troubled path To find a new way To form a more perfect union... It is up to us..."

All gas don't let up #vote #volunteer #donate @ all levels #local #state #national 👇

No matter the obstacle, whether it's winter storms or stormtroopers, Democratic voters are showing up. So far this cycle, 26 R to D flips, 0 D to R flips.

"Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead." 👇

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

🙏🕯️❤️ Catherine O'Hara will be so dearly missed May she rest in peace With deep sympathy to her family & loved ones and friends Will every hold her incredibleness & inspiration in my heart Interview by @vulture.com www.vulture.com/2026/01/cath...

"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions- bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Breathe… “Breathe In” by Makiko Kimura

Ashland, Virginia: "Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..." www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

Lovely image, lovely words....echoing to anyone who sees this peace and love and light message:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Shelter in the Storm ⛈️

OTD in 1845, Poe publishes The Raven 🐦‍⬛ Poe influenced other authors including another favorite of mine, Baudelaire. While in Paris (be there soon), I often think of this poem, À Une Passante.

"My childhood – ink-stained fingers, Bells in the morning, The muezzin at dusk, Collections of cigar boxes & old stamps, Trading one Ceylon For two Luxembourg. Thus they passed, Childhood days, Chasing after a rag ball, raising dust and cries, A rag ball, Made of grey Albanian rags." Ismail Kadare

" hope costs nothing " while fear - anger - judgement ... is costing us all way way too much may we spread hope together 🙏🕯

These 2 passages highlighted on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social by @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social exerpted from full text below written by Former POTUS Joe Biden touched my heart & may touch yours too - with purpose #healing #ourhome #standup #speakput #IStandWithMinneaolis For #Good 🕯 For #Pretti 🕯

Never forget…. 🕯️

and then they came for us for you for me #peace starts with us ☮️ #justice comes when we stand ⚖️ #liberty sustains when we see, we are one 🗽 This is SO important - please read @matthewjdowd.bsky.social take on "first they came...." 👇

More of this 💕

John Denver's "Peace Poem" Listen here: www.instagram.com/reel/DT_QcxM... #peace #poem 💟☮️

#PeteButtigieg www.instagram.com/reel/DT_6OHL...

"...Dawn after a snowfall I climb a hill With a fish over my shoulder The purple flowers In the potato fields Are now in full bloom We are well into spring And I have thought of peonies For several days now How many years have passed Since my eyesight failed?" - Hakushū Kitahara 💟 #poetry 👇

Saturday morning wisdom 👇🏼

"The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible." - Vicki Baum

happy bday one of my favs West Indian poet Derek Walcott, b.1930. "The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self...

"Konstantin Bogaevsky’s life and work represent a love letter written in paint— a tribute to the land that shaped him and the people who lived within its borders" -IAFC STAFF 👇

"If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation." Lao Tzu

"A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye—” and if his eye be single his whole body may yet be full of light." - Sophia Jex-Blake

"...The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost #handinhand #onward 🗽 👇❤️

Fun with frost. ❄️ #sunset #photography

These numbers are a shitshow. The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it. That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.

Grateful to be included anong this fantastic group of #blueresisters - please join in!

happy bday Nicaraguan priest/poet, Ernesto Cardenal, b.1925. "We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp." "We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection...

... of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us."

HBD MLK 🎂

Bear witness. Organize. Don’t retreat.

We are so proud of our new Governor @abigailspanberger.com !

Exciting!

Inauguration of @abigailspanberger.com starts on @pbsnews.org and @vpm.org @npr.org (links for both options below) at 11:20am! Join Us for Noon swearing in starting now! www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... www.vpm.org

happy bday suffragist Alva Belmont, b.1853. "I certainly think we have in this country, even now, women more fit to fill the Presidency of the United States than the last few men who have filled it". "We have a right to live, a right to be respected.”