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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞

@lgtrombatore.bsky.social

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Hi! I'm Leah. I study sanctions, war and dictators professionally and Fungi personally. I'm a terrible millennial, prefer typewriters to computers, and am an insufferable optimist. I'm glad you're here.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · Jan 9

A really neat thing about the internet is that regular, every day people can come onto websites like this one and decide to say something kind, uplifting or encouraging and turn a complete stranger's day totally around. I think that's an important thing to hold fast and remember.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 3h

This makes me so happy 🥹🍄🫶🏻

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 6h

Friday evening checkpoint: Tell people good stuff while they're still here. Reach out and connect with that person you've always admired. Nurture friendships and seek new ones. Take the risk for joy. Love people loudly, liberally and as often as possible.

I'm glad you're here. 🌸

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 10h

I'm about to be in a car for a while this evening. This is perfect, thank you. 💙

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you! It's my favorite season too, and my cottage is always a little spooky. Here, have some pumpkins. 🎃

A pink glowing spider jack on lantern and a green glowing spooky face jack on lantern on my porch

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 12h

Have some joyful skywriting from Hammond, America. 💙

Sky writing of a smiley face and a heart

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 14h

Oooo great idea! Thanks. I think I'm going to head back that way (I was time limited and on a jog) and try to do some digging around this evening. That area used to have two giant trees that died post-Ida and were removed so lots of old roots over there.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 14h

That little guy is perfectly harmless. He's just a whimsy provider. He'll keep you company on your journey. 🫶🏻🍄

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 15h

Ok #FungiFriends, this one is a little odd. They sort of look like big bulbs of garlic. This is an area that has a heavy ganoderma presence from old tree roots, but I've never seen them grow like this. Your thoughts are welcome, and happy #FungiFriday!

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A white mushroom with a tough core in some grass

A white mushroom with a tough core in some green grass

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 17h

Casually building up my playlist based on your shares...📝

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 17h

I hope today is gentle, and that you can allow yourself the vulnerability of joy. It's a holy and necessary pursuit. Blessings, peace and love on your Friday. ✨

The sun rising over the farm in my back field as framed by the trees in my front yard.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

It's apparently supposed to be in the 50s overnight the next few nights here in Tangipahoa. I volunteer at a pumpkin patch two days a week, and it'll be so much more pumpkiny than the 90 degrees days.

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Coming home from a great dinner on a cool night to some October ambience will never get old.

#Goodnight 🕸️🕷️

An orange light up color changing spider on the front of my house. It's web is a bunch of purple lights.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Sage is the best.

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Note: I'm a super progressive episcopalian so it's not necessarily an authoritative document to me, but I was raised Catholic and still read/collect the encyclicals. All of this is so predictable and amusing.

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

"Maybe the exhortation is bothering me because I need to rethink my prejudices and reexamine my heart...no, it's the literal Pope that is wrong about caring for the poor, the structural causes of poverty and inequality as societal ill..."

-All the far right Catholics today

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

I...was never circumcised. 🙃

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 1d

Why didn't Starscream get any of Megatron's messages the other day? He was in airplane mode.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Romanticize every moment you can. Your morning. Your lunch. The flowers you see. The conversation with the stranger in line. The moon and stars in the night sky...romanticize it all. It's beautiful in spite of it all. 💜

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of these little fun guys out this morning. I love how the one in the front looks like it's photobombing the one in the back.

#FungiFriends 📸🍄

Two delicate white conocybe mushrooms. One is bending in front of the other. The grass they are in is very green.

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this with you.

#FungiFriends 📸🍄

A small, delicate cream colored mushroom being held by a hand with purple nails with a field in the background.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 2d

I'm out of the loop. Did someone call you annoying??? You're wonderful!

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, all of them? Tchoupitoulas, Burgundy and Calliope are the first that come to mind.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 2d

Is there some sort of migration? I don't know anything about mastodon. I'm awful at social media, generally and pay zero attention outside of my curated bubbles.

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Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 2d

Ombre blue skies and swirls of clouds after unexpected rain serves as one of our universe's greatest illustrations. Stick around. You never know the beauty and majesty that awaits after the storm clears.

Have a beautiful and blessed evening.
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Blue skies as gray clouds are moving out from an evening storm

Leah 🍄🏹🌙🌻💞 @lgtrombatore.bsky.social · 2d

"Wow, you're so small" will never not be amusing to me when someone meets me in person. I have no idea what people expect. They're also usually surprised that I'm the boss. Being in charge doesn't have a height requirement, y'all. Powerful things, small packages, etc. 💅🏻