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Another seasonal gift from my young photographer, Steven White... Rain chains flowing. Gotta love November in the Coast Range Mountains of California!

Love it when useful research falls into my inbox, right when most needed. And also love the faculty culture of sharing rather than gatekeeping knowledge. (Thanks, @jasonmnagata.bsky.social)

🎶🎵We've only just begun...🎶🎵 🥳🥳🥳 What a night. And just warming up for 2026!

Love this infographic. Spot on!

My favorite part of November: pruning the neighbor's thorny pyracantha bushes & harvesting the berries for firethorn jelly!

Important resource, both for the ideas presented, and for the citations! The impact of AI on education.

Meditating on a triad of habits of critical importance in this crazy world of tech-bros & bots & AI: Act like a genuine human being. Reach out to other genuine human beings. Treat them with humanity. 🕯️ /|\ Triads

Yes! This is the way: have the competent people, who actually know what they're doing, set up parallel systems that render our mismanaged gov't irrelevant. Love this.

Love hearing about projects like this! Re-watering the world.

Sad, difficult choice today: Termites discovered. Choice: let the house be eaten, or do foundation treatments that will eradicate termites but poison our organic orchard & make the fruit unsafe to eat. Can one successfully transplant 4 y.o. fruit trees? 😧 🌳🌳🌳

Benefit of homeschooling: learning to LOVE history as an adult. 😍 Free to read great, college-level texts, like "Worlds Together; Worlds Apart" & "The American Yawp" (in lieu of standard HS fare), study the hows & whys of history, pondering big questions, diverse perspectives, and REALLY THINKING.

When tired and stressed with grown-up worries, picking up an old hardcover edition of "The World of Christopher Robin,” and reading a few poems is like medicine; it makes everything seem alright again.

#Writers BEWARE: I have just been followed by a group of "new #authors" probing me about my projects — all using the exact same words: "Hello! Are you also a new author? I really enjoy connecting with fellow writers and hearing about their projects." The AI bots are attempting to groom us. (BLOCK)

Recalling what a deeply human process it is to create a truly useful book index — not replicable by any automated or AI system, as it requires a theory of mind, a deep understanding of the audience & their likely needs, preferred search-terms, and points of confusion. ✍️📖💡 #AmEditing #AmIndexing

Just found this inspirational video about a forest restoration project, and needed to share the joy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1QJ...

It is so easy for those of us accustomed to the privilege of clean air to forget to offer up our gratitude. I have been negligent. Today, for the first time in 2025, the SOx and NOx in the SF Bay Area is so bad, my eyes are burning. Praying now for the return of our blessed sea breeze! 🙏🙏🙏

Well, it seems that the US Gov't propaganda team has arrived. You all know what to do. For the updated list of "official" new arrivals, see: @verified.pds.mmatt.net

The more time I spend editing, double-checking index entries, citation reference numbers, and end-notes, the smaller and smaller those little numbers get. Need a bar loupe. #amediting

Fun to see how fast struggling students can turn into eager young scholars, when explicitly taught the skills of elaborative interrogation and self-explanation. Ahhh! Good teaching day, today. 🥳 #education #JoyOfLearning

The rain-washed foothills send up their gratitude in waves of pungent perfume: coyote mint, redwood, and sage. I love the smell of the air after the first, fire season ending rain!

0.85" of rain, hooray! And temps in the 40's. Rain Season has arrived. Time to break out the cuddly winter blankets. 🛌☔️🧤🧣🧦

Fastidious Black Phoebe, bathing and preening, flipping and diving in the bird bath. Getting every feather perfect, like a self-conscious teen before a first date. Toilette complete, it strut its stuff atop a trellis... when a birch branch caught in a gust of wind sent it tumbling, tail over beak.

An inspirational ray of hope in the darkness. Direction for those willing to think original thoughts, and lead the way... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

An Autumn Break gift from my boy, taken while visiting Grandma's house at Lake Tahoe... Back to school on Monday, so we'll have to hold this beauty in memory. Teen #nature #photography

Just came in from our California #nativeplants garden with a pocket full of delectable wild cherries. Yes, the pits are large, and the skins bitter, but the meat is so sweet and strongly cherry-flavored. And these trees require watering only once every three weeks in summer. 🍒🍒🍒

Awoke this morning to my favorite sound in the world: the steady pitter-patter of fat raindrops falling on the roof and cascading down the rain chains. 🌧️🌧️🌧️ Take *that*, Fire Season! 😛

Yet another stunning landscape that I’d like to lose myself in...

Sunset at the Autumn Equinox, in Half Moon Bay, California.

A Joyous Equinox to all who celebrate! Contemplating balance and rest as we head back into the dark and rainy half of the year. /|\

The Fire Season heat is on! Time for an... AUTUMN EQUINOX FLASH SALE • Sept. 15-28, 2025 25% off on all hardcover, paperback, and ePub editions of "World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality" purchased author-direct from: larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry... /|\ #druidsky #pagansky 🎁

5 things that make you happy, quick! 🌈 a cool evening sea breeze 🌈 my teenaged son's spontaneous happy-dances 🌈 morning coffee in the garden 🌈 hugs from my hubby 🌈 writing time in the peace and quiet of dawn

Started work, today, on the index and glossary for my book on human learning. SO excited to catch my first glimpse of the finish line! What away to start a vacation. 🥳 #amwriting 🖋️📖💰

First quarter complete! Grades recorded. Classroom cleaned and quiet. SO ready for my well earned, 3-week Autumn Break. Pizza party anyone?

Fascinating article about a newly discovered Peruvian civilization from the time of ancient Mesopotamian cultures, which managed its way through the climate crisis of that age without resorting to conquest and violence. bbc.com/travel/artic...

Awoke to grey skies and a steady, wetting mizzle this morning. Hope is in the air again. Counting the days 'til Rain Season returns. Never really enjoy the tinder dry anxiety of Fire Season.

Family of five Jellicle Cats dancing on the roof all night, last night. Wish they'd take the party elsewhere... 😴

Blue Sky seen overhead during my early morning coffee in the garden, today. Guess Fog Season is finally over for the year. Time for a bit of California Coast Range Mountain heat! (We finally broke 70 degrees this week!) 🌞

#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata) v.1 Comments/critiques? 🧶 #nativeplants

Perfectly said.

Another stunning photo (iPhone SE; no edits; no AI) by my 14 y.o. son, Steven. #nature #photography

#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) v.1 Comments/critiques? 🧶 #nativeplants

Trying to write after a sleepless night requires an incredible amount of coffee. Still, you've got to lay down pages, or the book will never be done. ☕☕☕☕☕ 🖋️📖💰 😅

#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Tidy Tips, FINAL: Moving on to Blue Flax flowers...

Better than therapy for what ails you: 1. Calming ambient music by Ron Alan Cohen 2. Quiet work on nature-reverent art (crocheting native wildflowers here) 3. A reminder to "Be a goldfish," and forget any worries outside your immediate locus of control. Wishing all a blessed day. /|\

Enjoying a leisurely, Sunday morning lie-in, listening to two great horned owls conversing outside my window, pre-dawn.

Horrified by the idea that the California CCs and USCs are to have their "educational" programs enshitified by offering Gen AI to all students (before they learn to think for themselves). AI cheating will become rampant, and original thinking will be penalized by being outside the statistical norm.

Bobcat caught prowling the backyard this afternoon; that means the cougar is back in town. Life in the Coast Range Mountains of California.

Thanks for sharing! Trying it now...

Fascinating how frequently children see clearly what adults work hard to obfuscate.