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Gentriwitch

@waatlemoen.bsky.social

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Lapsed yogi. Misguided gardener. Books to be read. ŉ Lewe in prentjies.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 12h

Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you-ou-ou

-Bob Marley

Three birds enjoy the morning sun on the dry and leafless branches of an avocado tree. A blue spring sky and a mountain peak behind.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Winged creature in Fairyland* #smallbeauty

*also a musical stage play by David Kramer and Taliep Petersen

A tiny yellow and black winged ollinator visits the white flowers of an overgrown coriander bush. Wild garlic foliage and a concrete wall in the background.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Kinders van die wind.* #smallbeauty

*Afrikaans poem/song written by Koos du Plessis, sung by Laurika Rauch

Closeup of a geranium bush, recently planted and already showing two little purple flowers, bright orange pollen on the stamens pop against the purple petals and green foliage. A concrete block stepping stone, oregano and dark earth in the blurred background. The flowers sway in the late afternoon Cape wind.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Small beauties of spring. Hope. 🌼🌱🦋

A what I've come to call chocmint ice cream butterfly, nosing a lilac wild garlic flower for nectar. A cinderblock concrete wall and rusted wire trellis for a backdrop.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Keep going, step by by step. Down in the garden, watching the weeds grow and sipping tea. Slow Sunday🤷🏽‍♀️

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Child of Gaza, you have taught us to love with our whole heart.
We are bound in love.
Play and laugh, tell stories.
The strawberries will grow again. #capetown #southafrica

A white porcelain teddybear in a garden patch sits next to a strawberry plant with some ripe berries.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

www.facebook.com/groups/19805...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. A 15cm crocheted granny square in the colours of the Palestinian flag. An invitation to participate in craftivism, an initiative by the organisers of the weekly vigil on the steps of St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 3d

Are you doing garden things now the rain has come? 🌱🌼💧

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa.bsky.social · 6d

No one deserves the Nobel Peace prize more than the Palestinians of Gaza.

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 10d

Please save this, read it, feel it.

Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 5d

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 5d

She's Bisan from Gaza.
And she's still alive.
#habibti

A photograph of Bisan Owda holding the string of a Palestinian flag kite. The blue sky of Gaza.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 5d

x.com/Bisan_owda1/...

Bisan Owda on X: "Don’t stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea, until justice! https://t.co/XUJtu9ZR3I" / X

Don’t stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea, until justice! https://t.co/XUJtu9ZR3I

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 5d

"I've been canceled," the firefly says, landing on my jar's rim.

"By who?"

"The hive. My light's the wrong frequency." She demonstrates—purple instead of yellow-green.

"They said I'm confusing the mating signals."

I open the jar. "So start a new trend."

She hesitates, antennae twitching. "What if nobody follows?"

"What if somebody does?"

She lifts off, purple beacon pulsing. In the darkness, one distant light flickers violet back.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 5d

For all the shattered hearts who were sobbing in the morning traffic. Together.

'They make a desert and call it peace."
- Tacitus

Quote used in an X post by Craig Coŕrigan, reposted by Ayesha Bagus. x.com/PatrickCorri...

A scarf printed with a keffiyeh pattern and the flag of Palestine.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 5d

Moon over mountain. Two birds face the sun.

Friday morning of another long, weird week in the world.

The moon waning gibbous in the blue morning sky above a mountain gone green for spring. In the foreground is a tree with old dead branches at the highest points. Two birds sit on the branches, facing the sun. The green and red brown of more trees beyond.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 7d

Diva moon, diamond choker. Blue-black night, blood on the light.
Nature knows. #capetown

The full moon waning gibbous in a blue-black sky. Above, a grey cloud bank. Below, a horizon of electric white streetlamp light and a dark urban landscape of houses and trees. A diagonal line of light fllares from the moon and the air around it has a reddish tinge.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Jan 30

When you got it

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 9d

Sky of mixed emotions. Spring twilight.

Sunset after a night and day of intermittent rain. Dark grey clouds gather across the sky and above the horizon. Pale blue sky and a swirling puff of white cloud in the middle, a hint of rose and gold. Below, a landscape of trees. The golden light from lit streetlamps on a street along the bottom of the picture and also on the horizon.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 10d

Stealthmode pests are attacking the new granadilla plants.
The car leaked oil onto the tarmac.
Butterflies... bits of airmail writing paper on the breeze, colour of chocmint ice cream. Flutter dancing at the sun, nosing flowers, then away.
A granadilla blossom blossoms, tendrills twirl #smallbeauty

The first granadilla blossom, leaves and tendrils. All trailing up a rusty trellis against a concrete block wall. Sunshine and shade.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 11d

Two guinea fowl sheltering from the spring rain. Just flirting.

An oak tree against dove grey rainclouds. Two guinea fowl are perched in the branches, outlined against the cloud.

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irishabdullah @irishabdullah.bsky.social · Feb 8

Intervention, Safia Latif. Oil on linen.

Oil on linen painting depicting a deep blue night sky. In the top half of the image, two silhouetted UFOs cast beams of light into the treeline lining the bottom of the frame. Captured within the tractor beams are two levitating people in unidentifiable Western military armor, posed and frozen in a moment of attack as they uselessly peer through the sights on their guns.

Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 11d

Safia Latif.

Oil painting by Safia Latif. A man in a blue t-shirt and traditional black and white keffiyeh showing the middle finger in defiance. Bright fames spout from the finger.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 11d

The Lovers of the Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Lovers of the Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lovers of the Poor arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies’ Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In dilut...

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