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Joni Mitchell, singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet, genius... and skater #WomensArt❄️
(Photo by J. Bernstein)

Monochrome photo of a woman skating on a lake wearing a black dress and black coat with feather-like trim, the figure holds out her arms, back view and resembles a crow-like creature

December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM

Michael Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mihangel ap Ifans

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Roath Park
#Caerdydd #Cymru

This photo shows a peaceful woodland stream with a small waterfall in the foreground and calm water flowing from a decorative footbridge in the distance. Trees with autumn leaves arch over the water, and the scene is surrounded by natural greenery and fallen leaves, giving it a serene, early-autumn atmosphere.

November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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Looking for a guide through Advent? Highly Recommended: ‘Frequencies of God - Walking through Advent with R S Thomas’. Carys Walsh writes a reflection on each of 28 poems by the Welsh poet-priest #RSThomas. See canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...

Frequencies of God Walking through Advent with R S Thomas by Carys Walsh - Paperback / softback - 9781786220882

Buy Frequencies of God Walking through Advent with R S Thomas by Carys Walsh Paperback / softback from Canterbury Press - ISBN: 9781786220882

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November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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#Advent
‘The Coming’ - #RSThomas
(H'm, Macmillan)

Text of poem -

The Coming.
And God held in his hand
A small globe. Look, he said.
The son looked. Far off, As through water, he saw A scorched land of fierce Colour. The light burned There; crusted buildings Cast their shadows; a bright Serpent, a river
Uncoiled itself, radiant With slime.
On a bare
Hill a bare tree saddened
The sky. Many people
Held out their thin arms To it, as though waiting For a vanished April To return to its crossed Boughs. The son watched Them. Let me go there, he said.

November 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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Jacobine SdJ

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Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. #nightprayer

November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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Anthony31

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“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen.🌱

November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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⏯𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔷𝔦

@mistercorzi.bsky.social

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas (1947)
#photography #landscape #seascape #Forth #IsleOfMay #sunset #poetry #DylanThomas #bird #flight #tanker #lamp #silhouette #horizon #PotD

November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM

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Ian Moody

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The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

petition.parliament.uk

November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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‘The Presence’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#YPresenoldeb #ThePresence
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem -

The Presence.
I pray and incur silence. Some take that silence for refusal.
I feel the power
that, invisible, catches me by the sleeve, nudging
towards the long shelf
that has the book on it I will take down
and read and find the antidote
to an ailment.
I know its ways with me;
how it enters my life,
is present rather
before I perceive it, sunlight quivering on a bare wall.
Is it consciousness trying
to get through?
Am I under
regard?
It takes me seconds
to focus, by which time
it has shifted its gaze,
looking a little to one
side, as though I were not here.
It has the universe
to be abroad in.
There is nothing I can do but fill myself with my own
silence, hoping it will approach like a wild creature to drink
there, or perhaps like Narcissus
to linger a moment over its transparent face.

November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

petition.parliament.uk

November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM

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Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment

November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM

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Jacobine SdJ

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Darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. #nightprayer

November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Michael Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mihangel ap Ifans

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Roath Park, Caerdydd. In the foreground is the memorial to the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, lead by Scott. The expedition had set off from Caerdydd. The whole team died, including Welshman Edgar Evans, from Gower.
#EdgarEvans #Scott #Antarctica #SouthPole

The photo shows a tall, white clock tower standing on a small platform in the middle of a calm lake. A blue door sits at the base of the tower, and a railing runs along the foreground. Trees and houses line the far shore under a lightly clouded sky.

November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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M Meerkat

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Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......

November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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‘Flowers’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#Blodau #Flowers
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem -

Flowers.
But behind the flower is that other flower which is ageless, the idea of the flower, the one we smell when we imagine it, that as often as it is picked blossoms again, that has the perfection of all flowers, the purity without the fragility.
Was it
a part of the plan for humanity to have
flowers about it? They are many and beautiful, with faces that are a reminder of those
of our own children, though they come painlessly from the bulb's womb. We trouble them as we go by, so they hang their heads at our unreal progress.
If flowers had minds,
would they not think they were the colour eternity is, a window that gives on a still view the hurrying
people must come to and stare at and pass by?

November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor

November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM

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Grace

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The world is watching. Show leadership, add the fossil fuel phase out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to President Lula and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!

COP30 Brasil @cop30brazil.bsky.social · 11d

🔵 Com a Zona Azul reaberta, as negociações retomarão nesta sexta-feira. Há um trabalho substancial pela frente. O presidente da COP30, embaixador André Corrêa do Lago, fala das expectativas para esta reta final. Assista! 🎥