"Ashes! Ashes! We all... rise up!" it only took a walk across a decimated continent to get some peace and light ~ an odyssey of self mastery & community ~ #UnhingedPit #A #Q #F #hopepunk #CliFi #spec #mindfulness

An odyssey of self mastery & community After the dust from the #rapture or whatever shakes out. #UnhingedPit #A #Q #F #CliFi #hopepunk #Collapse 🌞🎵> Aztec drummers & 350PDX Sun Day march 🎶> #MotherNatureSong 🌎 #MusicChallenge: It's The End Of The World As We Know It: R.E.M. youtu.be/H8j2MlVhzsc

"No need to run/ and hide/ It's a wonderful, wonderful life" Ralph Asfour performs in Beirut as ballistic missiles fly overhead Day 23 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" Wonderful Life: Black covered by Ralph Asfour

a contemplative #MindfulMonday song for the cozy dark of the year rolling in Happy Autumn Equinox, and spooky season! 🕸️ Day 23: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia Snowfall: øneheart x reidenshi #WheelOfTheYear youtu.be/LlN8MPS7KQs?...

Beautiful sun set on another glorious summer in Portland 🌞 Happy ☯️ Equinox, 🍁 autumn, & #Mabon! Let's release what no longer serves, enjoy the harvest, work to rebalance our communities and nervous systems, and get this 🕸️ spooky season of the witch going! #Equinox #witchsky 🎃 #SpookySeason

Sun Day Portland rocked! 🌞 I got to dance as a 🍄 the whole time The speaker lineup impressed, from our good Senator Merkley to other thoughtful activists and politicians, on sustainable energy and power at community levels. Aztec dancers invited us to join in an elemental dance. #SunDay #solarpunk

Oo wee it's time for a switcheroo 😅🤣 Day 22 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : "Two Heads Are Better Than One" “I'm callin' on you 'cause I can't do it myself To me, you're like a brother, so be my mother lover” Motherlover : Lonely Island (feat Justin Timberlake) nailing early 90s aesthetic

"Tropical the island breeze, all of nature wild and free This is where I long to be, La Isla Bonita " Day 22: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia La Isla Bonita: Madonna

The great 2017 #SolarEclipse was depicted in our "Attitude of Gratitude" Portland mural, by a visiting artist. This eclipse portal is hitting hard! 👀🌝 Illuminating what's been hidden... Dropping old crutches I'm curious about others' experiences with this eclipse season! 🌚 🌞 #astrosky #witchsky

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong Day 21 PJ Harvey - Down By The Water Inspired by a traditional folk song, it tells the story of a woman who drowned her daughter. It was Harvey's first hit record in the US and the track featured in episodes of Beavis and Butthead. youtu.be/lbq4G1TjKYg?...

Some stuff is broken in our world right now, guess we better get to fixin' or maybe just build something better 🌱🌞 Day 21 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" Fix : Avail youtu.be/uoLeaPeYZYo?...

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

"Walk on the ocean Step on the stones Flesh becomes water Wood becomes bone" Day 21: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia Walk on the Ocean: Toad the Wet Sprocket

The great 2017 #SolarEclipse was depicted in our "Attitude of Gratitude" Portland mural, by a visiting artist. This eclipse portal is hitting hard! 👀🌝 Illuminating what's been hidden... Dropping old crutches I'm curious about others' experiences with this eclipse season! 🌚 🌞 #astrosky #witchsky

this exists it is called thinking

🌞 September 20/21, 2025 🌞 Save the date for Sun Day, a day to celebrate the counterpart to Earth Day, and stand up to fossil fuel billionaires. www.sunday.earth/events 🌞 #Solar 🌞 #solarpunk 🌞 #SunDay 🌞 #ClimateAction 🌞 #Climate 🌞 #Resist @sundayofaction.bsky.social‬ @xr-us.bsky.social

🌼 Push th Little Daisies: Ween Day 20: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/gPjPb3nNprg?...

Day 20 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : "Easy Come, Easy Go" "I bet I could smoke you, I could roast you And then you'd love it and you'd text me 'I love you' And then I'd f#*@ing ghost you" Money Machine: 100 gecs youtu.be/z97qLNXeAMQ?...

#Art #WaterColor #Surreal With a one of a kind footprint & incredible eye appeal, this "Chateau of the Surreal" appears on the same spot once every 146 years for 1 hour only. So I don't need to convince you how vital it is that you get your deposit on this magical time share in now. Daniel Merriam.

Here is a 🧵 of my #querying novel, even though #CliFiPit was postponed. Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🌱 An empath leads an odyssey across the former US in this informative, tarot-themed adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse. 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #hopepunk 🕉️ #mindfulness

Throwback to mid summer 💚 💓 Dance party stop at Laurelhurst Park on the Chappell Roan ride #ForestFriday #Portland

Day 19 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge: "Live & Let Live" I Just Wanna Get Along : The Breeders youtu.be/zusUcXC6Hzo?...

ooo, this looks fun! Spooky Season pitch event!

Day 19: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of the Earth 🕸️ 🕸️ 🕸️ 🕸️ Happy spiderweb season!! (Every time I go in my yard I get Webbed) 🕸️ 🕸️ 🕸️ 🕸️ Spiderwebs: No Doubt

Here is a 🧵 of my #querying novel, even though #CliFiPit was postponed. Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🌱 An empath leads an odyssey across the former US in this informative, tarot-themed adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse. 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #hopepunk 🕉️ #mindfulness

"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world." - John Muir Very Big Tree amongst regular big trees at Sequoia National Park #SaveOurParks #ThickTrunkThursday #SequoiaNationalPark

Silence is banished from our screens. #Painting Lyonel Feininger (1929), Stiller Tag am Meer III. Nautical cubism for you.

Soylent Green, anyone? 🧍‍♂️🟢 Juuuust kidding, #permaculture involves cultivating food and medicine plants in polycultures for #ClimateResilience!

🙁 bummed #CliFiPit was postponed, as I was excited for building community with fellow climate fiction writers. 💕 @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social 's idea of sharing anyway! I'd also love to hear what folks are working on, and will follow his lead in getting my pitch out anyway! #CliFi #writingcommunity 🌞

Maybe let’s not doomscroll into a hole Let's fill our days intentionally with real rest, play, and productivity that nourishes our collective soul They fight for our attention, for our fear they gain power from our tears We're all in this together, loves Let’s build and feed something better

"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world." - John Muir Very Big Tree amongst regular big trees at Sequoia National Park #SaveOurParks #ThickTrunkThursday #SequoiaNationalPark

"Yr just a parrot when yr screaming and yr shouting 'More crackers, please! More crackers, please!' You want what you want, but you don't wanna be on yr knees" 🍰 🔪 🎂 Deceptacon- Le Tigre Day 18 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge: "You can't have your cake & eat it, too" 🍰 youtu.be/NP_zFFn3tyg?...

"When soon his majesty Sent soldiers and thieves To India searching for gold Instead from the ground Some magic they found Something far better I'm told Yeah...poppies" Day 18: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia Poppies: Marcy Playground

Precious memory of the time I filled up the outdoor tub in my splurge hotel room in Costa Rica, got in, turned on the jets, and a whole nest of red ants squirted into the tub with me 😅 🐜 #RedWed #ants

“Look into the mirror, who's inside there? You can buy all the makeup That M.A.C. can make, but if You can't look inside you Find out who am I too” Unpretty- T.L.C. Day 17 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" youtu.be/g2gy1Evb1Kg?...

vibez Day 17: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia River Still Runs: Shrimpnose

Feed vision. Feed community. Feed your self. Feed creativity. Do not. Feed. Fear. They want you to feed fear. They seek to rule and drain by fear.

Some simple steps to circumvent the #bystander effect & stand up to #bullying: #Distract, #Delegate, #Document, #Delay, & #Direct We should all practice a good old bumbling distraction 😏 #deescalation #PeacefulProtest #StandUp #harassment #nonviolence #July4th

"Regrets collect like old friends Here to relive your darkest moments But it's always darkest before the dawn" 🌄 Day 16 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge Shake it Out: Florence + The Machine

This song is one of my favorites to have on in the background if I'm overstimulated or stressed 🌬️ 🤍 🫧 ☁️ ✨ melt into it 🫶 Sacred Tree Harp + Hang Drum Day 16: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge #witchsky #mindfulness #SoundHealing #MindfulMonday youtu.be/QmTZS4kf0lE?...

"Why you lookin at me?" Venus Fly: Grimes feat. Janelle Monae Day 15 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : a picture is worth a thousand words (and a music video is worth a thousand words and a song) youtu.be/eTLTXDHrgtw?...

This beautiful movie helped set the mood for my life The first film I was ever OBSESSED with, with themes of magic and human impact Day 15: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge : a song a day in honor of #Gaia #witchsky #magic 🦄 "The Last Unicorn" from the Last Unicorn motion picture soundtrack

Let's shake it out, friends 💜 "Fascism wants us small and scared and frozen and in fear Before, during, and after taking the news in, organizing, and taking action take care of yourself. Take your joy seriously. Take time to release toxicity from the body." - @chaninicholas.bsky.social

been stressing about my "serious" project and am hankering for low bar futzing around It's so fun to get inspired to make little crafty easy projects without perfectionism #artsky #FirstFriday #PDX some art from Portland's First Friday last week at East Creative Collective & Art Design Exhange

“You won't break my soul/ you won't break my soul Release ya anger/ release ya mind/ Release ya job/ release the stress I'm on that new vibration/ I'm buildin' my own foundation, yeah” Break My Soul: Beyoncé Day 14 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge youtu.be/1HgdzR_1OQ4?...

love this song clip! 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 enjoy the Reading Rainbow theme remixed by Austin Millz 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 📖 🌈 Day 14: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge - a song a day in honor of #Earth #ReadingRainbow #booksky

one of the funniest scenes from the funniest show ever #MusicChallenge Day 13 of #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 ( 🦛 animals 🦏 ) & #ColloquialSongs : Laughter is the best medicine Flight of the Conchords: Hiphopapotamus vs Rhymnoceros #FlightOfTheConchords youtu.be/FArZxLj6DLk?...

It was here that I feel in love with Portland, over 2 decades ago looking out over Hawthorne Street & surrounding neighborhoods, seeing way more trees than buildings 🌳 🌲 and I realized this is a city for country people Its beauty blows me away to this day #ForestFriday #PDX #scape

☁️ ☁️ ☁️ "Don't be sad, just let go of your pain and when you fall asleep, know tomorrow's a new day" ⛅ New Day: Tom Kha Day 12 of #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge : ☁️ Every cloud has a silver lining ☁️ youtu.be/2NkT5AtRPSc?...

🌈 This song always makes me think of displaced indigenous peoples of Hawaii & North America, and what was lost 🌈 but also what beauty, heart, and resilience perseveres ❤️ 🌈 🌺 🌊 🐬 🤙 🌈 Day 12: #MotherNatureSong 🌍🌎🌏 #MusicChallenge Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Israel Kamakawiwo youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I?...