Nancy 💚✍🏻
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Nancy 💚✍🏻
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· Sep 22
A grateful heart is a resilient heart.
#Gratitude is the antidote to suffering. We suffer according to our level of self-pity - or how much we internalise and identify with the bad thing. But you can't feel self-pity and gratitude at the same time - they are opposites! #ChooseJoy 💚 #TinyJoys
#Gratitude is the antidote to suffering. We suffer according to our level of self-pity - or how much we internalise and identify with the bad thing. But you can't feel self-pity and gratitude at the same time - they are opposites! #ChooseJoy 💚 #TinyJoys
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This is a world of smoke & mirrors, & the senses can easily be deceived.
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is a world of smoke & mirrors, & the senses can easily be deceived.
Impossible to make eye contact in 90% of cases... But I kept my smile on anyway 😄
Preparing to brave the supermarket. Making it my mission to smile at as many people as possible! 😃🎄
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Impossible to make eye contact in 90% of cases... But I kept my smile on anyway 😄
Noticing, however, that it doesn't behave as described - it skips posts!
Learning to spend more time in the OnlyPosts feed - I often find the Following feed too noisy, and then spend all my time in my Lists and it's too quiet 😆 OnlyPosts feels like a good balance!
December 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Noticing, however, that it doesn't behave as described - it skips posts!
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“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.” Saint Francis de Sales
Your best is allowed to be human, imperfect, and is still more than enough.
🧡
#kindness #SelfCompassion #enough
Picture by Joyfulsmolthings
Your best is allowed to be human, imperfect, and is still more than enough.
🧡
#kindness #SelfCompassion #enough
Picture by Joyfulsmolthings
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.” Saint Francis de Sales
Your best is allowed to be human, imperfect, and is still more than enough.
🧡
#kindness #SelfCompassion #enough
Picture by Joyfulsmolthings
Your best is allowed to be human, imperfect, and is still more than enough.
🧡
#kindness #SelfCompassion #enough
Picture by Joyfulsmolthings
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There are many places to find essential, real, awful news. When I’m sharing online I ask myself: Should I post it? Maybe. Will it make people feel better? Then, yes. Will it make people at the least, not feel worse? Ok sure. Will they feel worse? Then, no. People need a break. I can be that break ❤️
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
There are many places to find essential, real, awful news. When I’m sharing online I ask myself: Should I post it? Maybe. Will it make people feel better? Then, yes. Will it make people at the least, not feel worse? Ok sure. Will they feel worse? Then, no. People need a break. I can be that break ❤️
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Preparing to brave the supermarket. Making it my mission to smile at as many people as possible! 😃🎄
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Preparing to brave the supermarket. Making it my mission to smile at as many people as possible! 😃🎄
A collection of patterns from my local patch, for #LentoAdvent
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A collection of patterns from my local patch, for #LentoAdvent
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Before the Storm — Gregory Jacek Olejniczak, 2024
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Before the Storm — Gregory Jacek Olejniczak, 2024
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Learning to spend more time in the OnlyPosts feed - I often find the Following feed too noisy, and then spend all my time in my Lists and it's too quiet 😆 OnlyPosts feels like a good balance!
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Learning to spend more time in the OnlyPosts feed - I often find the Following feed too noisy, and then spend all my time in my Lists and it's too quiet 😆 OnlyPosts feels like a good balance!
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The Absinthe Drinker — Viktor Oliva, 1901
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The Absinthe Drinker — Viktor Oliva, 1901
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Today I mostly went shopping in Nagoya, but I still found invertebrates.
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Today I mostly went shopping in Nagoya, but I still found invertebrates.
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Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴
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Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday
Today, I’m choosing to stay present and keep things positive.
Positive thinking includes the very real possibility of a third breakfast.
Today, I’m choosing to stay present and keep things positive.
Positive thinking includes the very real possibility of a third breakfast.
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday
Today, I’m choosing to stay present and keep things positive.
Positive thinking includes the very real possibility of a third breakfast.
Today, I’m choosing to stay present and keep things positive.
Positive thinking includes the very real possibility of a third breakfast.
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Did u know?With most insects overwintering,I miss their fabulous presence.Let's stop to consider what amazing architects they are. These are just some of the incredible structures they make to complete their magical metamorphic lifecycles:Leafcutter tubes,silken cocoons & papery nurseries.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌿🪲🌍🐞🦋🐝🐛
December 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Did u know?With most insects overwintering,I miss their fabulous presence.Let's stop to consider what amazing architects they are. These are just some of the incredible structures they make to complete their magical metamorphic lifecycles:Leafcutter tubes,silken cocoons & papery nurseries.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌿🪲🌍🐞🦋🐝🐛
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"Every time I think I am healed, another wound whispers beneath my skin, another memory rises like smoke from the ashes of old versions of me, but maybe healing is not a destination, maybe it is the brave act of walking through your own ruins and still planting flowers."
~ R. M. Drake
~ R. M. Drake
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Every time I think I am healed, another wound whispers beneath my skin, another memory rises like smoke from the ashes of old versions of me, but maybe healing is not a destination, maybe it is the brave act of walking through your own ruins and still planting flowers."
~ R. M. Drake
~ R. M. Drake
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
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Day 23 of #MyPhotoAdvent2025, a photo a day of my favourite captures of 2025... with an explanation in Alt Text of my reason for choosing it.
These are photos that, for one reason or another, give me pleasure.
Only two more to go !
#Nature #EastAnglia #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin
These are photos that, for one reason or another, give me pleasure.
Only two more to go !
#Nature #EastAnglia #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Day 23 of #MyPhotoAdvent2025, a photo a day of my favourite captures of 2025... with an explanation in Alt Text of my reason for choosing it.
These are photos that, for one reason or another, give me pleasure.
Only two more to go !
#Nature #EastAnglia #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin
These are photos that, for one reason or another, give me pleasure.
Only two more to go !
#Nature #EastAnglia #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin
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Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.
Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.
Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.
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King Alfred’s cakes (cramp ball fungi) rest in today’s Advent window. Coal-dark spheres scattered through leaf litter, once used as tinder, now reimagined as fairy fare. History, folklore and woodland alchemy meet: a reminder that even the humblest forms can carry story, warmth and quiet magic.
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
King Alfred’s cakes (cramp ball fungi) rest in today’s Advent window. Coal-dark spheres scattered through leaf litter, once used as tinder, now reimagined as fairy fare. History, folklore and woodland alchemy meet: a reminder that even the humblest forms can carry story, warmth and quiet magic.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It’s nearly the end of the day here in the UK, a day that was perhaps a teensy bit longer than yesterday, so here’s a picture of the light on the ocean, seen from the hilltop above where I live. I hope you manage to get outside today. Nature is a great antidepressant🙏🏼🌞 #thesea #outside #walkies
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Good Morning for #MountainMonday
I found this photo from 2005 in my archives taken at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. I was waiting in 22F degree weather for sunrise & my camera batteries kept failing~I had to rotate warm ones out of my pocket!
#EastCoastKin #Photography #MonoLake #OMSystem
I found this photo from 2005 in my archives taken at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. I was waiting in 22F degree weather for sunrise & my camera batteries kept failing~I had to rotate warm ones out of my pocket!
#EastCoastKin #Photography #MonoLake #OMSystem
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Good Morning for #MountainMonday
I found this photo from 2005 in my archives taken at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. I was waiting in 22F degree weather for sunrise & my camera batteries kept failing~I had to rotate warm ones out of my pocket!
#EastCoastKin #Photography #MonoLake #OMSystem
I found this photo from 2005 in my archives taken at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. I was waiting in 22F degree weather for sunrise & my camera batteries kept failing~I had to rotate warm ones out of my pocket!
#EastCoastKin #Photography #MonoLake #OMSystem
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mirrored winter wish
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
mirrored winter wish