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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Reason for hope.

Good news feels illusive these days but when we look to our own communities, we see it's been there all along.

We have to make an effort to focus and celebrate the goodness of our neighbors! 👏👏👏🥰

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Commons Resource Center open in Nevada County

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. October 8, 2025 – The Commons Resource Center, a joint project of Nevada County Behavioral Health in partnership with SPIRIT Peer Empowerment Center, held its official opening cer...

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 4d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent

#Spain

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 6d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

#Valencia #Spain

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 7d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

The 'memory' (last week's word!) associated with this place is a pleasing welcome.

Our name was written on a white board near the entrance along with other arrivals scheduled for that day.

#Japan

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 7d

Fame and exploitation.

Theoretically and morally, it seems like a person should have control of their own life story.

Perhaps 'rightful owners' are the people who can make the most money.

It's reminiscent of the #PhineasGage story with a modern twist. 😔

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The Dionne Quintuplets Captivated the World During the Great Depression. But Their Fame Came at a Cost

Nearly three million visitors flocked to Canada to see the five identical sisters—the first quintuplets to survive infancy. The siblings later said the publicity destroyed their childhoods

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 10d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

#Spain

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 11d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

When your fate (and life) rests in the hands of strangers.

Passengers, piloted by a cockpit crew, homing to a narrow gash surrounded by flashing beacons.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 12d

Sylvester leads Aflac to Limbo.

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JBtheExplorer🎃 | Native Plant Gardener (WI) @jbtheexplorer.bsky.social · 12d

A bullfrog peaking out between the waterlilies in my garden pond.

#frog #bullfrog #herps #amphibian #wildlife #garden #photography

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 12d

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Tracing the forgotten path of the first wagon train to cross the Sierra

Everyone knows the Donner Party. These are the people who came before.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 13d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories

Manual #typewriter: tender finger tips, paper slapping clacking sounds, satisfying slide across advancement of the new line bar, nose hair singing scent of Whiteout, and the 'Ah! Moment' of pulling out a formerly blank sheet, now full of #words.

#Underwood

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 13d

#AlphabbetChwllenge #WeekMforMemories

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 13d

Perfect title for this piece.

#DoTheRightThing #Compassion #Kindness #Courage #FearLess #Leadership

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Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 14d

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Mushroom Small Moss - Free photo on Pixabay

Download this free photo of Mushroom Small Moss from Pixabay's vast library of royalty-free stock images, videos and music.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 14d

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Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

Jay McClellan - Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 15d

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The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today

From scandal to staple: how the fork travelled from Byzantium to Lithuania, helped by Queen Bona Sforza and centuries of changing table manners.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 15d

Humbling - these long-lived life forms. Devastating when they're gone, especially when the loss is human caused.

#SycamoreGap #OakTree #loss

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Iconic Sycamore Gap oak tree in Northumberland, England, a UNESCO site. The tree choppers were convicted. The stump is all that's left.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 17d

#AlphanetChallenge #WeekMforMemories

Word play 🥴

I remember when this seemed like a lot of memory!

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 19d

Yes. Impossible. The search for our reps donors didn't pan out as hoped. The big donors are buried inside a group name that doesn't give anything useful. No one on that list was a business owner that I recognized in my community 🥴

We'll keep looking for ways to shift the tide.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 20d

"The donor class has never been challenged. Take them to account if they’re funding fascism. Ask why they are donating to someone who has introduced three book bans and zero bills to address the local clean water crisis?"

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How to (Legally) Hit Politicians Where It Hurts

You don't need money to influence politicians when you can cost them money.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 20d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

Many lines, drawn together, in harmony, make a pleasing sight.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 20d

Crows show up on a battlefield to pick at the dead. They scavenge what's left, solve problems, and are harbingers of change.

#JumpJason. Americans are with you!

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#PowerGrab #Greed #Boycott #Courage #Protest #DefendDemocracy #USVeteran #JasonCrow #Colorado #paratrooper

Colorado Representative delivers a powerful House speech summarizing the Trump Administration's corruption (to date) and the courage of Americans who are working to defend democracy.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 22d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLine

In the shadows, a reflected line of light illuminates the surroundings.

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Lisa Redfern 🦉🎏📚 @lisaredfern.bsky.social · 22d

Uplifting #MakeArt message.

Reclaim screen time.

Sharing art doesn't have to mean fame and followers. It could mean showing it to your mom or your #cat. It might mean an ordering of your thoughts, so the next time you speak, it is with clarity and conviction.

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The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED

YouTube video by TED

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