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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 7d

"There is an aliveness...Places where you can go, where the where the veil feels thinner. And what it seems to me you’re creating with your images, are places where the veil can feel thinner, simply by being in the presence of what you’ve made."

Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social · 7d

This was a rather wonderful conversation.

mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 7d

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild...

#accidentalgods #podcast
#wildgods
#spirituality
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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 7d

I am weeping with equal parts grief that Jane is gone and gratitude she was here with us!

Thank you for this art Samantha Dion Baker.

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www.sdionbaker.com/about

"The small changes we make each day can lead to the kind of world we all want for the future"
- Jane Goodall
Drawing of Jane and a chimp embracing by Samantha Dion Baker

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 10d

I was thinking Keystone Cops!

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 10d

"Rocks dont see it.
Bless and sit down.
Forgive and forget.
Practice kindness all day to everybody
and you will realize you’re already
in heaven now."

The Golden Eternity, by Jack Kerouac share.google/kHzNN6IZ7qhy...

Listen to the Silence inside the Illusion of the World and you will Remember the lesson you forgot

- Jack Kerouac

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 11d

Emerald City across the Whulge, Tahoma in the distance

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 11d

"p.s. Mother says I should retain a lawyer lest I be given unlawful orders, which Private Johnson (the one who defected to the Mossy Maidens Ultimate Frisbee team earlier) says we were following all along. Can you compose a missive to Cousin Isaiah to ask whether he would oblige?"

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 12d

Part of a poem by William Stafford about empathy, lit by candles

To hear an iconic sound of the Northwest, listen to a driftwood log

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 15d

What is your favorite sound-scape?

Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton shares one of his favorite field recordings from the Washington coast

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 19d

"Whether Banksy...through its partial erasure, more indelibly inscribed in cultural consciousness, remains to be seen. Sometimes what isn't there is more enduring and more powerful than what is.

Michelangelo to Banksy: The controversial artworks that fell foul of the law - and were erased

Prefiguring Banksy's latest Royal Courts of Justice mural depicting a judge attacking a protester, are centuries of art history where works have been censored or edited.

www.bbc.com

KNKX Environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp interviews five authors about the admiration and curiosity they have for their subjects: the trees all around us.

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 19d

"The Understory
KNKX Environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp interviews five local authors about the admiration and curiosity they have for their subjects: the trees all around us."

The Understory

www.knkx.org

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 20d

"It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent or lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.” -Tove Jansson

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 21d

forest path, halved by sunlight light, dog ears listening

nearly equinox, upper northwest

Forest path, halved by autumn light, dog ears listening

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 26d

Jane Hirshfield | The Poetry Foundation

Jane Hirshfield

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you for the Hand Pup! I'm a dog trainer and use Fido here to illustrate lots of things to clients when I don't have a dog "ready at hand".

Thurston County commissioner proposes ordinance in response to Bear Gulch fire immigration arrests - The Daily Chronicle

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was the publication that was covering the ordinance in response to Bear Gulch fire immigration arrests.

But the article was not yet available to link to.

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Thurston County commissioner and Aberdeen firefighter Wayne Fournier this week introduced the Emergency Responder Protection and Enforcement Coordination Act to the board, which approved sending the ...

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The Daily Chronicle - The Daily Chronicle

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 5

BEAR GULCH FIRE IMMIGRATION ARRESTS

"The alarm is sounding, not just about fire, but about federal overreach. Let us respond with clarity, courage, and a firm commitment to protect those who protect us."

Commissioner Wayne Fournier

From solarpunk to the metaverse: The way we think about the future needs to change

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 2

"If we look outside of the dominant ideas of what the future will bring, we’ll find bright ideas and nascent social infrastructures, cultivated by proactive groups of people who are demonstrating what could be possible. This has created the future before, and it can again. "

Big Issue @bigissue.com · Sep 2

Though over half of us think humanity is doomed, if we can imagine a better future, we can start to move towards it.

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 2

What were his words?

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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 1

True story!

Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · Aug 23

They all take turns

The different aspects of my personality. Into pigeons, into empathy and somewhat existential.

Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · Sep 1

She never could resist a winding road.

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