Beautifully Twisted. #twistedtree #naturelovers #moodyedits #gardenpath #gnarlybranches #treeappreciation #natureart #botanical #woodlandwalk #darknature #texture #smartphonephotography #photography

Lady and her horse on a snowy day Photo by Félix Thiollier, 1899

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

'The Twelve Dancing Princesses' Himmapaan Niroot #Witchsky

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. Rilke

They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.

I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

It wasn’t even close.

Mind cleanse at the Schoodic Point part of Acadia National Park. It’s awfully nice living Downeast. #mainelife

I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!

Still my President, and First Lady…🎄 @moberzan.bsky.social @hopeful66.bsky.social @mcspocky.bsky.social @realkingresist.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @loveshine204.bsky.social @suzyqfit4u411.bsky.social @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

(Untitled) 'Owl Habitat' mid 1940s Joseph Cornell

A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.

Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center

I waited for the moon, the drifting cloud, and the branches to line up — one of those night-photography moments that only lasts a heartbeat. If you enjoy seeing the world through new perspectives, stick around for more. #Photography #NightPhotography #ScottKissPhoto

I must go in. The fog is rising. Emily Dickinson

I want to live in a spacious luxurious hole: a soft dim underground existence with no ridiculous aspirations & fewer headaches, renounce the desire to be precious, shrink into myself like a Greta Garbo tortoise or maybe transform into a slime mould whose Latin name means down with love, fuck poetry

Ah is a breath Gerhard Richter, Wolke (1971)

The dogs sound like that awesome dog barking jingle bells song from the 80s. #svengoolie

I wish I could be a cemetery caretaker. #svengoolie

SVEN TIME! Nothing bad can happen for the next 2.5 hours! #svengoolie

It’s Saturday #caturday! Layla is gloating because she gets the house to herself today while her annoying little sister Cher gets to go to the groomer for a bath. She likes to nap in Cher’s pen when she’s gone just so the dog knows she was there lol

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Sylvia Plath good night

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

Moon rising over Dounreay rocks, Brims and a cloud band. Scotland's north coast

Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)

To 'AI First' Companies. Remember, there are no AI generated customers. People invest in people.

December's full moon: The Cold Moon.

“Maybe you are right,” said Toad. “Maybe Frog does not want to see me. Maybe he does not want me to be his friend anymore.”

Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible

"This fall, I presented my paper, 'More of a Comment than a Question, ' at the main conference in my field. Because the college has eliminated travel funding for faculty, I covered the cost by selling off-season Girl Scout cookies to adults having panic attacks over the election."

I love Mary Fedden (British | 1915 - 2012). Sheep in the Snow (1984, watercolour and gouache on paper).

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot

Goodnight from the Cat-in-the-Wall pub, where Lucy Goss has been given the honour of leaving out the mummified moggies ceremonial saucer of milk. Goodnight from the Grey Lady of Maplewyck Farm, crossing the yard with blood on her apron as always. Goodnight from Hookland.

Goodnight from David Ash, the distortion pedal on his bass guitar arousing ire in every resident phantom at The Ice House nightclub. Goodnight from Ashcourt’s Meymott Street, its bruised tenements weeping new soot scar sigils under cover of power cut darkness. Goodnight from Hookland.

'Cats in a Window' by contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #Caturday

The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]

I am very thankful for @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social. It's a privilege and a joy to be able to work with you turning compassion into action every single day. 🥰

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

If the experience of living through 2025 was a dog.

Happy Thanksgiving - thankful for all of you who tune in and support us- no rubber chickens today- just turkey ( not the movie kind)

'Moonlight Feast' Astrid Sheckels

In England's great ghost census, many phantoms give their home address as parish church. This is not due to spectral godliness, nor an uncommon favouring of Evensong, but a sign of the former role of the church in community life and afterlife. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Happy Thanksgiving. You don’t have to believe in the premise of the holiday (I sure as hell don’t), but: you can believe in good friends, the family we choose, and sharing food, happiness, maybe good movies. That’s what Thanksgiving is to me, and the specifics don’t matter. Find joy in each other.

Today is the day #HappyThanksgiving #WKRP #LesNessman

🌼👐🏾🌼 @rockthebells.bsky.social

Goodnight from Jenna Little, dropping something more than ten pence pieces into the Meldon Hill Wishing Well. Goodnight from David Severs, wondering if a packet of 20 John Player Special is enough of a ritual offering to ensure safe crossing to the Gore Islands. Goodnight from Hookland.

Tis the season ❄️ Love this one by Pascal Campion.

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.