Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
@barbonipatricia.bsky.social
Perennial Pilgrim in love with the complex Tapestry of Life, our extraordinary World and Infinite Possibilities. “Not all those who wander are lost.” - Tolkien
💙Books, Music, Languages, History, Mythology, Science, Travel
& most definitely Democracy💙
💙Books, Music, Languages, History, Mythology, Science, Travel
& most definitely Democracy💙
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"This, my dear, is the greatest challenge of being alive: to witness the injustice of this world, and not allow it to consume our light." ✨🪷 #DeepThoughts #GoodQuotes #Peace
"This, my dear, is the greatest challenge of being alive: to witness the injustice of this world, and not allow it to consume our light." ✨🪷 #DeepThoughts #GoodQuotes #Peace
The NYT series of "Overlooked No More" articles provide fascinating insights into many remarkable people, who are perhaps unknown to you! This is just one of them. *Gift Article
#Tarot #History #ArtSky #PamelaColmanSmith #Rider-Waite www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
#Tarot #History #ArtSky #PamelaColmanSmith #Rider-Waite www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The NYT series of "Overlooked No More" articles provide fascinating insights into many remarkable people, who are perhaps unknown to you! This is just one of them. *Gift Article
#Tarot #History #ArtSky #PamelaColmanSmith #Rider-Waite www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
#Tarot #History #ArtSky #PamelaColmanSmith #Rider-Waite www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Many hills & valleys in 2025 yet looking forward to unexpected miracles in 2026. One came early today: my brother who's been in clinical trials for multiple myeloma, which incl stem cell transplant, is officially in full remission! Was diagnosed 2011 & given 5 months..he keeps beating the odds!✨🥰🕊️
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Many hills & valleys in 2025 yet looking forward to unexpected miracles in 2026. One came early today: my brother who's been in clinical trials for multiple myeloma, which incl stem cell transplant, is officially in full remission! Was diagnosed 2011 & given 5 months..he keeps beating the odds!✨🥰🕊️
Feliz Año Nuevo 2026
pensamientos #CaminoDeSantiago
pensamientos #CaminoDeSantiago
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Feliz Año Nuevo 2026
pensamientos #CaminoDeSantiago
pensamientos #CaminoDeSantiago
Happy Boxing Day to Canadian friends, and especially to those who are cat parents...😸
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy Boxing Day to Canadian friends, and especially to those who are cat parents...😸
Concert coming up in a few minutes...can listen to Cantigas de Santa Maria 2025 here at 2:00 pm Central Time www.hppr.org/high-plains-...
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Concert coming up in a few minutes...can listen to Cantigas de Santa Maria 2025 here at 2:00 pm Central Time www.hppr.org/high-plains-...
Wishing everyone Health, Love, Kindness, Joy and PEACE throughout the winter holidays and the years ahead. The beautiful strong, tender "Angel and Dove" by artist Lynn Bywaters. 🎄✨🕊️💖
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Wishing everyone Health, Love, Kindness, Joy and PEACE throughout the winter holidays and the years ahead. The beautiful strong, tender "Angel and Dove" by artist Lynn Bywaters. 🎄✨🕊️💖
14th century Llibre Vermeill of Montserrat, 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria from Alfonso X El Sabio. Languages are Latin, Catalán, & a medieval form of Galician. Songs w/ time stamps are in one of the comments. #MedievalMusic 🎶✨
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Sacred Music From Medieval Spain: The Llibre Vermell And The Cantigas De Santa Maria
YouTube video by AE Raziel
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December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
14th century Llibre Vermeill of Montserrat, 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria from Alfonso X El Sabio. Languages are Latin, Catalán, & a medieval form of Galician. Songs w/ time stamps are in one of the comments. #MedievalMusic 🎶✨
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Wonderful article by Debra Bolton about a medieval concert that will air on NPR High Plains radio Wed. Dec 24th 2pm-4pm Central Time Zone, tune in on hppr.org. Love the photos & descriptions of the various medieval instruments! 🎶✨ peopleandcultures.blog/2025/12/13/a...
A Musical Biography: Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2025
In this 13th year of my production, for public radio, I present the narrative and play list to “Las Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Musical Biography of 13th Century Monarch, King Alfonso X”&n…
peopleandcultures.blog
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Wonderful article by Debra Bolton about a medieval concert that will air on NPR High Plains radio Wed. Dec 24th 2pm-4pm Central Time Zone, tune in on hppr.org. Love the photos & descriptions of the various medieval instruments! 🎶✨ peopleandcultures.blog/2025/12/13/a...
Reposted by Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
A favorite video, the song from A Charlie Brown's Christmas ....from several years back...always makes me smile...so so sweet 🥰🎶
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Christmas Time Is Here - Daniela Andrade
YouTube video by Daniela Andrade
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December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A favorite video, the song from A Charlie Brown's Christmas ....from several years back...always makes me smile...so so sweet 🥰🎶
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Reposted by Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
It’s the year 2025 and Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a news program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s the year 2025 and Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a news program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president.
While playing Stan Getz radio station on Pandora, this song by Uruguayan Jorge Drexler unexpectedly played. A longtime friend of mine passed on October 4th. She had huge crush on Jorge Drexler & his music. His "Al Otro Lado del Río" won an Oscar in 2005. 🎶✨💫 #Signs&Wonders
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Jorge Drexler - El fuego y el combustible
YouTube video by Manuel Ayala
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December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
While playing Stan Getz radio station on Pandora, this song by Uruguayan Jorge Drexler unexpectedly played. A longtime friend of mine passed on October 4th. She had huge crush on Jorge Drexler & his music. His "Al Otro Lado del Río" won an Oscar in 2005. 🎶✨💫 #Signs&Wonders
youtu.be/seY1SkbaLs0?...
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True:
Sometimes the only way forward is “through”.
Also True:
Sometimes “through” takes a lot longer than one might wish
Persistence & Perseverance matter.
Also True:
Sometimes "through" can happen in an instant.
💡moments & unexpected miracles💫
#SundayThoughts ✨ #CaminoLessons 🥾
Sometimes the only way forward is “through”.
Also True:
Sometimes “through” takes a lot longer than one might wish
Persistence & Perseverance matter.
Also True:
Sometimes "through" can happen in an instant.
💡moments & unexpected miracles💫
#SundayThoughts ✨ #CaminoLessons 🥾
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
True:
Sometimes the only way forward is “through”.
Also True:
Sometimes “through” takes a lot longer than one might wish
Persistence & Perseverance matter.
Also True:
Sometimes "through" can happen in an instant.
💡moments & unexpected miracles💫
#SundayThoughts ✨ #CaminoLessons 🥾
Sometimes the only way forward is “through”.
Also True:
Sometimes “through” takes a lot longer than one might wish
Persistence & Perseverance matter.
Also True:
Sometimes "through" can happen in an instant.
💡moments & unexpected miracles💫
#SundayThoughts ✨ #CaminoLessons 🥾
Reposted by Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
"Reading it today, what jumps out is that the Farewell Address is an admonition (in the 1796 sense of the word). Washington is trying to warn us. And what he tried to warn us about *is happening right now.*"
Sunday Pages: "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States"
A valediction by George Washington
gregolear.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Reading it today, what jumps out is that the Farewell Address is an admonition (in the 1796 sense of the word). Washington is trying to warn us. And what he tried to warn us about *is happening right now.*"
🎯
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎯
Winter Solstice blessings to all!
"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away." ☀️✨ #WinterSolstice
www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/03/t...
"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away." ☀️✨ #WinterSolstice
www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/03/t...
The Shortest Day: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Presence with the Passage of Time, Our Ancient Relationship with the Sun, and the Cycles of Life
A lovely homage to a universal human impulse radiating across time and space and cultures and civilizations.
www.themarginalian.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Winter Solstice blessings to all!
"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away." ☀️✨ #WinterSolstice
www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/03/t...
"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away." ☀️✨ #WinterSolstice
www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/03/t...
Reposted by Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
Complying with the law is not an option.
These people are public servants. They work for you, the American taxpayer.
Congressman Ro Khanna explains the consequences in the video I share in this new short post. Also get the DOJ website link.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
These people are public servants. They work for you, the American taxpayer.
Congressman Ro Khanna explains the consequences in the video I share in this new short post. Also get the DOJ website link.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Complying with the law is not an option.
These people are public servants. They work for you, the American taxpayer.
Congressman Ro Khanna explains the consequences in the video I share in this new short post. Also get the DOJ website link.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
These people are public servants. They work for you, the American taxpayer.
Congressman Ro Khanna explains the consequences in the video I share in this new short post. Also get the DOJ website link.
open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
Author Eleanor O'Rourke is always impressive....especially this from her Substack "Fierce Love". #DeepThoughts #WiseWords
Terrorism isn't the problem. Our ancient myths are.
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Terrorism isn't the problem. Our ancient myths are.
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Terrorism isn't the problem. Our ancient myths are.
God called, he'd like a Diversity Officer
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Author Eleanor O'Rourke is always impressive....especially this from her Substack "Fierce Love". #DeepThoughts #WiseWords
Terrorism isn't the problem. Our ancient myths are.
open.substack.com/pub/eleanoro...
Terrorism isn't the problem. Our ancient myths are.
open.substack.com/pub/eleanoro...
These are not the actions of non-criminals.🧐
“…the Trump administration is calling for the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC in 1998, to be amended to impede the Court from investigating the US president and top officials…”
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
ICC: States must defend justice and stand up to attacks on the rule of law - ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 calls on the global community to defend the ICC and its mandate to independently investigate and prosecute the gravest crimes.
www.article19.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
These are not the actions of non-criminals.🧐
Reposted by Patricia Barboni 📎🌊🪷🇺🇸✨🇺🇦🌻 ☮️🌎♻️
Bring it, Jack!
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bring it, Jack!
Might be my favorite: "The radical move is to enter each day as a constant now, free from the claws of then and next, so you may take the open hand of the moment, nerved with pure being." TY @mariapopova.bsky.social ✨ #DeepThoughts #GoodQuotes
In this season of stilling, an invitation to presence from the field bunting. Find all 100 bird divinations and the story/process behind them at almanacofbirds.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Might be my favorite: "The radical move is to enter each day as a constant now, free from the claws of then and next, so you may take the open hand of the moment, nerved with pure being." TY @mariapopova.bsky.social ✨ #DeepThoughts #GoodQuotes
At the link, one of the most beautiful things I've ever read: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
LOVE this story so much!!! Thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social ! Memories of 2001 visit to PT Dr in León, Spain to have him work on tendonitis & foot injury sustained on the #CaminoDeSantiago: Me screaming in pain, accompanied by Debussy's Clair de Lune. But was able to walk the next day! 🥰🎶🥾 #Music
Oliver Sacks's account of his encounter with a white bull in a Norwegian fjord and how he saved his own life is one of my favorite things ever written www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/09/o...
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
LOVE this story so much!!! Thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social ! Memories of 2001 visit to PT Dr in León, Spain to have him work on tendonitis & foot injury sustained on the #CaminoDeSantiago: Me screaming in pain, accompanied by Debussy's Clair de Lune. But was able to walk the next day! 🥰🎶🥾 #Music
Excellent 🧵 from Dr. Katelyn Jetelina MD @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social about the violence and more. Please read and share. Yeah, It's the guns. #GunLawReformNow 🕊️✨
Last night, I tried to write about evidence-based solutions. I was originally trained as a violence epidemiologist, am married to a police officer, and am a mom. I know there are things we can do.
I wrote it.
Deleted it.
Rewrote it.
I wrote it.
Deleted it.
Rewrote it.
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Excellent 🧵 from Dr. Katelyn Jetelina MD @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social about the violence and more. Please read and share. Yeah, It's the guns. #GunLawReformNow 🕊️✨
If anyone seeing this does not know the work of @annelamott.bsky.social ...this is an introduction worth reading.
As always, thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social for sprinkling sparkles of light and love in dark times. ✨💙🥰 #DeepThoughts
As always, thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social for sprinkling sparkles of light and love in dark times. ✨💙🥰 #DeepThoughts
Anne Lamott on forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and the relationship between brokenness and joy www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/05/a...
Anne Lamott on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Relationship Between Brokenness and Joy
“We are hardwired with curiosity inside us, because life knew that this would keep us going even in bad sailing… Life feeds anyone who is open to taste its food, wonder, and glee — its immedi…
www.themarginalian.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If anyone seeing this does not know the work of @annelamott.bsky.social ...this is an introduction worth reading.
As always, thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social for sprinkling sparkles of light and love in dark times. ✨💙🥰 #DeepThoughts
As always, thank you, @mariapopova.bsky.social for sprinkling sparkles of light and love in dark times. ✨💙🥰 #DeepThoughts
Sometimes, a pause amid the chaos, to appreciate the beauty of a poem, fills my heart with joy and gratitude. 🥹🥰 Thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social ✨ #PoetrySky
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"But We Had Music" by Maria Popova (read by Nick Cave for The Universe in Verse)
YouTube video by Maria Popova
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December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Sometimes, a pause amid the chaos, to appreciate the beauty of a poem, fills my heart with joy and gratitude. 🥹🥰 Thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social ✨ #PoetrySky
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