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📚🔬🌎🌿☮️💕🌵🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈🦋🌻🏜️Banned book reader, former teacher. Wife, mother, friend, immigrant. Truth be told, glad I’m old!
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Sunrise over the International Date Line, 10-27-25. Symbolically appropriate for today’s election results!
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Sunrise over the International Date Line, 10-27-25. Symbolically appropriate for today’s election results!
From a forest before time, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia, October 8, 2025
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From a forest before time, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia, October 8, 2025
Zoom in on these ants! Almost grabbed a handful while holding this stair rail! Description in the alt text.
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Zoom in on these ants! Almost grabbed a handful while holding this stair rail! Description in the alt text.
Even the mission figs (Opuntia ficus-indica) need watering this summer - a first in decades - as they are drought pruning, dropping their outermost pads to conserve water for the main trunks. The birds miss their succulent seedy fruit!
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Even the mission figs (Opuntia ficus-indica) need watering this summer - a first in decades - as they are drought pruning, dropping their outermost pads to conserve water for the main trunks. The birds miss their succulent seedy fruit!
Although cloudy skies haven't brought desired rain, they do bring dramatic sunsets! Photo by a neighbor.
September 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Although cloudy skies haven't brought desired rain, they do bring dramatic sunsets! Photo by a neighbor.
Yottee Coyotee is smiling his sly smile! 😃
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yottee Coyotee is smiling his sly smile! 😃
My sister’s cat. What should the caption be?
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My sister’s cat. What should the caption be?
Never imagined an animated cartoon from 92 years ago would resonate today!🙀
¡Buenos días!
Esta obra maestra de la animación fue creada hace nada más y nada menos que 92 años. Ganó el premio de la Academia al mejor corto de animación.
Tan lejos y tan cerca.
Esta obra maestra de la animación fue creada hace nada más y nada menos que 92 años. Ganó el premio de la Academia al mejor corto de animación.
Tan lejos y tan cerca.
September 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Never imagined an animated cartoon from 92 years ago would resonate today!🙀
No wonder we have no rain! The stegosaurus is drinking our rain clouds, maybe it will eat the mountain next? 😹
September 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
No wonder we have no rain! The stegosaurus is drinking our rain clouds, maybe it will eat the mountain next? 😹
Be still my beating heart! 💚💚💚 we’ve had 3 quick rain showers over the past week & temps have moderated. The desert is grateful!
September 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Be still my beating heart! 💚💚💚 we’ve had 3 quick rain showers over the past week & temps have moderated. The desert is grateful!
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Even zwemmen dan maar?
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Even zwemmen dan maar?
The heat is back (99) and still no rain. 🥵 Photo by a neighbor of two young bobcats enjoying a bath & a drink. Who says cats don’t like water! 😸
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The heat is back (99) and still no rain. 🥵 Photo by a neighbor of two young bobcats enjoying a bath & a drink. Who says cats don’t like water! 😸
Tuesday rain brought Friday barrel blossoms with busy burrowing bees 🐝
August 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tuesday rain brought Friday barrel blossoms with busy burrowing bees 🐝
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On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel the kill order ➡️ biodiv.us/4n9IKGx
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel the kill order ➡️ biodiv.us/4n9IKGx
August 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel the kill order ➡️ biodiv.us/4n9IKGx
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel the kill order ➡️ biodiv.us/4n9IKGx
“Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...)
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...)
Parable of the Talents Quotes by Octavia E. Butler
326 quotes from Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2): ‘In order to riseFrom its own ashesA phoenixFirstMustBurn.’
www.goodreads.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...)
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...)
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And to my children I leave my collection of grocery bags that I store inside of a grocery bag.
August 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
And to my children I leave my collection of grocery bags that I store inside of a grocery bag.
Inalienable, inalienable, inalienable!
I think it is a misunderstanding to say the Constitution "gives" or "grants" us rights.
What the Constitution does is deny the government the power to restrict, impair, or take our rights.
Our rights are inalienable rights which are not created or bestowed by our Government or The Constitution.
What the Constitution does is deny the government the power to restrict, impair, or take our rights.
Our rights are inalienable rights which are not created or bestowed by our Government or The Constitution.
August 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Inalienable, inalienable, inalienable!
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Our 11th-Hour Reprieve for Sacred Lands
We’re celebrating a surprising milestone in the fight for Oak Flat, public lands in Arizona sacred to Indigenous peoples and habitat for species like endangered ocelots and Arizona hedgehog cacti.
www.biologicaldiversity.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Hoooray! Rain! First & only all summer!
August 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Hoooray! Rain! First & only all summer!
Also, consider deficits: dem admins try to balance budgets; repubs always explode them!
Repost this again and again so the MAGAs realize their mistake!
August 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Also, consider deficits: dem admins try to balance budgets; repubs always explode them!
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There is no evidence that students are doing better than when they learned from printed textbooks, while History and Science are much easier to revise.
August 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There is no evidence that students are doing better than when they learned from printed textbooks, while History and Science are much easier to revise.