My garden is my sanctuary. It helps to preserve my sanity. I miss it. Deepest of ancestral sighs…

Half-Knowers “No sense half-knowing a thing. Cause half-knowing is not sufficient. Look at the mess the half-knowers have got this country in—got this world in.” —Doc. Serge The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, EJI is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on Monday, January 19, 2026. Each visitor will receive a free copy of EJI’s award-winning wall calendar, A History of Racial Injustice.

Returning to theaters starting January 23rd…

“Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musical arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of styles, including classical, jazz, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Nina referred to her music as Black Classical Music.”

Learn how to combat daily stress, anxiety, and fatigue with plants at our upcoming virtual skillshare, Everyday Herbalism for Stress Relief on January 21 from 6-7pm. Attendees will make simple and effective calming aids using common kitchen herbs! Register: tinyurl.com/STRESSRELIEFSKILLSHARE

“Have to be whole to see whole.” —Sophie M’Dear Heywood The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara

For my Soil Cousins…

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This catalog is beautifully done. So many glorious seeds to choose from…Oh my goodness!

Hallow by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park

I ordered the 2026 calendar from Equal Justice Initiative. I knew I would after my visit to The Legacy Museum last summer.

“The disregard for Black lives laid the foundation for the rights of others to be disregarded. In light of all they’ve endured, the position America finds itself in is not shocking, but rather, the natural result of racially selective empathy.”

Events for When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social ) still loading. Coming to Charis Books in the ATL area I'll be in conversation with Golah B. Tawkin of Black in the Garden (blkinthegarden.com)!

My catalog arrived. I was very disciplined and I only ordered ONE packet of seeds…for now. 🙂 I was pleasantly surprised by the additional items enclosed courtesy of UJAMAA. 🫶🏾 *additional items not shown in photo*

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Killing Righteous Whiteous: Renee Good, Keith Porter & the Historical Violence of Whiteness Culture youtube.com/live/izbgOrS...

Everything Happens at Once in Faith Ringgold’s Mini-Retrospective A show highlights the artist’s extraordinary range with oil paintings, gouaches, figurines, textile works and ‘story quilts. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...

I had a custom 2026 calendar made using photos of flowers from our garden. For January, I chose a red rose, set against an out-of-focus background of pink jasmines. You’ll have to wait for the rest of the pages—one each month. #ColorADay #RedWed #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

“In the early- to mid-twentieth century Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer created and refined this residential garden built on the site of a former Civil War Confederate encampment. In the 1930s it was a gathering space for Spencer’s friends and colleagues.”

“Anne Spencer was a poet, civil rights advocate, teacher, librarian, wife, mother, and gardener. Most notably, Anne Spencer was an accomplished poet and figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the black literary and cultural movement of the 1920s, with over thirty poems published in her lifetime.”

“Black women in particular—have long tended to their gardens as sites of earth care, community care, and political organization.”

I'm trying so hard to stay out of the say her name discourse because I don't want to spend all day depressed about the defensive reactions from white liberals.

It's always "listen to Black women" until it becomes time to actually listen to Black women.

www.essence.com/culture/libe... #blackbooksky

January 7 - Zora Neal Hurston Day As a preservationist she preserved the language of African American people, especially in Florida. On her day we will tell folktales, act them out, and wear beautiful hats! #booksky #teachersky tinyurl.com/56ryztvz

#Prompter #poetry #vss365 #spooked #poetrycommunity #art Grief Time does not rush about. As if #spooked it tightens. An #astralprojection which waits until the moment— is earned. Until the air itself admits or surrenders. There is no way gentler to push forward. #Solseed #astralprojection

Sophia - A Tribute To Grief “Sophia is a life sized Grief Doll that straddles the space between this world and the Otherworld. She reminds us that the veil between ourselves and our Ancestors is thin, those that walked the land before us are all around and within.” Artisan: Nam Joti Kaur Khalsa

#ArtYear 2nd creation of the New Year: “Astral Projection” #flowers #HumanArt #abstract #Art by #ARW-RAW w/ #ArtisstTree #4sale Black Artists #BlackSkyRelay ♠️ #Artwork is a resistance composition initiates the artist’s 2026 contributing to a larger protest narrative she defines as #ArtAsResistance.

Womensart blog: Extraordinary Painter Betty Acquah womensartblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/e...