Larisa A. White
@larisa-a-white.com
M.S.Ed., Ph.D. • Indie scholar • Author • Teaching the power & joy of learning • Ecosystem restorationist (California) • Celebrating nature • Advocating stewardship • Weaving tales of cross-cultural & inter-species relations.
https://larisa-a-white.com
https://larisa-a-white.com
California's annual battle between sunshine and cloudbursts has begun.
Welcome, Rainbow Season!!!
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Welcome, Rainbow Season!!!
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January 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
California's annual battle between sunshine and cloudbursts has begun.
Welcome, Rainbow Season!!!
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Welcome, Rainbow Season!!!
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Ooof! Forgot how much focus is required to learn a new craft! Just took 30 min to stitch this guide line for my first counted cross-stitch pattern. Can barely see the threads, or reach around the frame. Must learn to work 2-handed & by feel. But the goal will be worth the struggle, I deem:
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January 3, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Ooof! Forgot how much focus is required to learn a new craft! Just took 30 min to stitch this guide line for my first counted cross-stitch pattern. Can barely see the threads, or reach around the frame. Must learn to work 2-handed & by feel. But the goal will be worth the struggle, I deem:
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Preparing to teach English w/ new focus: Why do humans write? Who writes? What do we write? Whose writing matters? To whom does it matter? What makes it matter? How does reading affect our ability to think and learn? How does it shape the future? Give examples from literature studied.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
January 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Preparing to teach English w/ new focus: Why do humans write? Who writes? What do we write? Whose writing matters? To whom does it matter? What makes it matter? How does reading affect our ability to think and learn? How does it shape the future? Give examples from literature studied.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
Hello Bluesky Druid Grove!
We have just reached 200 members in our little community.
Keep sharing your journeys.
And blessings of Land, Sea, and Sky for the New Year.
🥳🎉🥂
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We have just reached 200 members in our little community.
Keep sharing your journeys.
And blessings of Land, Sea, and Sky for the New Year.
🥳🎉🥂
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January 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Hello Bluesky Druid Grove!
We have just reached 200 members in our little community.
Keep sharing your journeys.
And blessings of Land, Sea, and Sky for the New Year.
🥳🎉🥂
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We have just reached 200 members in our little community.
Keep sharing your journeys.
And blessings of Land, Sea, and Sky for the New Year.
🥳🎉🥂
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An excellent analysis of Kobo's approach to the use of AI on our eBooks; a worthwhile watch for indie authors!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZP...
Better than Amazon/Kindle, to be sure, but still concerning...
🖋️📖💰
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZP...
Better than Amazon/Kindle, to be sure, but still concerning...
🖋️📖💰
Kobo embraces AI: What YOU need to know
YouTube video by Paper Tiger
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
An excellent analysis of Kobo's approach to the use of AI on our eBooks; a worthwhile watch for indie authors!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZP...
Better than Amazon/Kindle, to be sure, but still concerning...
🖋️📖💰
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZP...
Better than Amazon/Kindle, to be sure, but still concerning...
🖋️📖💰
Bob the Minion, my long-time writing companion, is excited to have made the cut to be pictured in my upcoming book on human learning — when you practice explaining things to others (especially to a very simple-minded & enthusiastic rubber duck), it really can help you learn!
#amwriting #education
#amwriting #education
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Bob the Minion, my long-time writing companion, is excited to have made the cut to be pictured in my upcoming book on human learning — when you practice explaining things to others (especially to a very simple-minded & enthusiastic rubber duck), it really can help you learn!
#amwriting #education
#amwriting #education
More corporate thieves. Great.
Just found out about this today, and pulled all my books from Kindle. My eBooks are still available via Apple Books and Kobo (for now), and direct via my website.
Seriously weighing the pros and cons of eBook distribution at all in the age of AI.
🖋️📖💰
Just found out about this today, and pulled all my books from Kindle. My eBooks are still available via Apple Books and Kobo (for now), and direct via my website.
Seriously weighing the pros and cons of eBook distribution at all in the age of AI.
🖋️📖💰
New #WriterBeware blog post: per a report by @publisherslunch.bsky.social, Amazon's new gen AI-powered "Ask This Book" feature for Kindle is, in effect, an "in-book chatbot" writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you c...
writerbeware.blog
December 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
More corporate thieves. Great.
Just found out about this today, and pulled all my books from Kindle. My eBooks are still available via Apple Books and Kobo (for now), and direct via my website.
Seriously weighing the pros and cons of eBook distribution at all in the age of AI.
🖋️📖💰
Just found out about this today, and pulled all my books from Kindle. My eBooks are still available via Apple Books and Kobo (for now), and direct via my website.
Seriously weighing the pros and cons of eBook distribution at all in the age of AI.
🖋️📖💰
Just enjoyed our family's heartwarming holiday movie tradition, celebrating the shift from darkness toward light, and our love of Nature by watching, "Fly Away Home."
(A girl & her father teach orphaned goslings to fly south for the winter, using a pair of ultralight planes.)
(A girl & her father teach orphaned goslings to fly south for the winter, using a pair of ultralight planes.)
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Just enjoyed our family's heartwarming holiday movie tradition, celebrating the shift from darkness toward light, and our love of Nature by watching, "Fly Away Home."
(A girl & her father teach orphaned goslings to fly south for the winter, using a pair of ultralight planes.)
(A girl & her father teach orphaned goslings to fly south for the winter, using a pair of ultralight planes.)
Just got woken up by blaring sirens at 2am, warning me of an imminent flash flood "in my area".
My house is at the top of a great big foothill in the Coast Range Mountains.
That would have to be SOME BIBLICAL FLOOD!
🙄
My house is at the top of a great big foothill in the Coast Range Mountains.
That would have to be SOME BIBLICAL FLOOD!
🙄
December 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Just got woken up by blaring sirens at 2am, warning me of an imminent flash flood "in my area".
My house is at the top of a great big foothill in the Coast Range Mountains.
That would have to be SOME BIBLICAL FLOOD!
🙄
My house is at the top of a great big foothill in the Coast Range Mountains.
That would have to be SOME BIBLICAL FLOOD!
🙄
Part of the fun of indie-authordom is doing the book design, playing w/ fonts & form factors, leading & kerning, paper and binding selections, to make sure the future book is not just a pleasure to read, but also a joy to hold.
#amwriting
#amediting
#amdesigning
#ampublishing
In the home stretch!
#amwriting
#amediting
#amdesigning
#ampublishing
In the home stretch!
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Part of the fun of indie-authordom is doing the book design, playing w/ fonts & form factors, leading & kerning, paper and binding selections, to make sure the future book is not just a pleasure to read, but also a joy to hold.
#amwriting
#amediting
#amdesigning
#ampublishing
In the home stretch!
#amwriting
#amediting
#amdesigning
#ampublishing
In the home stretch!
Ooooh! Look what my family gave me as a Yule gift. Needlework stand and three yards of muslin. Like a beautiful new notebook with nothing written in it yet. So many possibilities. Whatever shall I embroider, first?
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Ooooh! Look what my family gave me as a Yule gift. Needlework stand and three yards of muslin. Like a beautiful new notebook with nothing written in it yet. So many possibilities. Whatever shall I embroider, first?
That was a delightful Yule Feast & sing-along.
I feel like an anaconda that just swallowed a deer. Now to lie down under a tree to digest for six months...
I feel like an anaconda that just swallowed a deer. Now to lie down under a tree to digest for six months...
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
That was a delightful Yule Feast & sing-along.
I feel like an anaconda that just swallowed a deer. Now to lie down under a tree to digest for six months...
I feel like an anaconda that just swallowed a deer. Now to lie down under a tree to digest for six months...
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
It's that time again!
(Yes, we wassail our trees early here in California, b/c by January, the trees are blooming again.)
(Yes, we wassail our trees early here in California, b/c by January, the trees are blooming again.)
🎶"Wassail, wassail," we sing to our trees.
Our bread it is wholesome, our cider is sweet,
Our bowl, it is made of a Coast Live Oak tree,
And with wassailing bowl, we drink unto thee!🎶
Our bread it is wholesome, our cider is sweet,
Our bowl, it is made of a Coast Live Oak tree,
And with wassailing bowl, we drink unto thee!🎶
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
It's that time again!
(Yes, we wassail our trees early here in California, b/c by January, the trees are blooming again.)
(Yes, we wassail our trees early here in California, b/c by January, the trees are blooming again.)
A lovely, hopeful piece to read: "What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A lovely, hopeful piece to read: "What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Public Service Announcement:
The Sun is spending less and less time up here in the Northern Hemisphere. To all concerned:
Let's gather our voices on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 1:24 am Pacific Time (USA), to sing back the Sun. If we all sing at the same moment, I'm sure we will succeed!
☀️
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The Sun is spending less and less time up here in the Northern Hemisphere. To all concerned:
Let's gather our voices on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 1:24 am Pacific Time (USA), to sing back the Sun. If we all sing at the same moment, I'm sure we will succeed!
☀️
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December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Public Service Announcement:
The Sun is spending less and less time up here in the Northern Hemisphere. To all concerned:
Let's gather our voices on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 1:24 am Pacific Time (USA), to sing back the Sun. If we all sing at the same moment, I'm sure we will succeed!
☀️
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The Sun is spending less and less time up here in the Northern Hemisphere. To all concerned:
Let's gather our voices on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 1:24 am Pacific Time (USA), to sing back the Sun. If we all sing at the same moment, I'm sure we will succeed!
☀️
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Wonderful news from the British Isles:
Druid joins board of Interfaith Scotland druidnetwork.org/druid-joins-...
Congratulations @neilpitchford.bsky.social
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Druid joins board of Interfaith Scotland druidnetwork.org/druid-joins-...
Congratulations @neilpitchford.bsky.social
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Druid joins board of Interfaith Scotland - The Druid Network
The Druid Network in another historic first. December 4th, 2025. Interfaith Scotland (IFS) has appointed its very first pagan Druid to their governing board, in the form of The Druid Network (TDN) tru...
druidnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Wonderful news from the British Isles:
Druid joins board of Interfaith Scotland druidnetwork.org/druid-joins-...
Congratulations @neilpitchford.bsky.social
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Druid joins board of Interfaith Scotland druidnetwork.org/druid-joins-...
Congratulations @neilpitchford.bsky.social
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In other parts of the world, winter snow brings the blessed peace and quiet of the season; here in CA, we just have quiet drifts of fog.
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In other parts of the world, winter snow brings the blessed peace and quiet of the season; here in CA, we just have quiet drifts of fog.
Today, we celebrate "Family Day," the day we picked up our son from the orphanage in Ethiopia.
One fun family memory is an original joke my son told us, shortly after his fourth birthday:
Q: What's the difference between monkeys and people?
A: Monkeys have long tails; but people have tall tales!
One fun family memory is an original joke my son told us, shortly after his fourth birthday:
Q: What's the difference between monkeys and people?
A: Monkeys have long tails; but people have tall tales!
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Today, we celebrate "Family Day," the day we picked up our son from the orphanage in Ethiopia.
One fun family memory is an original joke my son told us, shortly after his fourth birthday:
Q: What's the difference between monkeys and people?
A: Monkeys have long tails; but people have tall tales!
One fun family memory is an original joke my son told us, shortly after his fourth birthday:
Q: What's the difference between monkeys and people?
A: Monkeys have long tails; but people have tall tales!
DaD has been properly memorialized and laid to rest...
The eulogy I wrote for his memorial can be read on his Tribute Wall at:
www.walkerfuneralhomeofqueens.com/obituaries/E...
Time to return to the land of the living.
Thanks to all my kind followers for your support during this difficult time!
The eulogy I wrote for his memorial can be read on his Tribute Wall at:
www.walkerfuneralhomeofqueens.com/obituaries/E...
Time to return to the land of the living.
Thanks to all my kind followers for your support during this difficult time!
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DaD has been properly memorialized and laid to rest...
The eulogy I wrote for his memorial can be read on his Tribute Wall at:
www.walkerfuneralhomeofqueens.com/obituaries/E...
Time to return to the land of the living.
Thanks to all my kind followers for your support during this difficult time!
The eulogy I wrote for his memorial can be read on his Tribute Wall at:
www.walkerfuneralhomeofqueens.com/obituaries/E...
Time to return to the land of the living.
Thanks to all my kind followers for your support during this difficult time!
Ernest John Naples
Devoted Father & Husband
Architect • Master Craftsman • Audiophile
Lover of Beauty
(14 January 1942 - 24 November 2025)
Your life with us has passed; but your light is eternal.
Rest in peace, DaD.
Devoted Father & Husband
Architect • Master Craftsman • Audiophile
Lover of Beauty
(14 January 1942 - 24 November 2025)
Your life with us has passed; but your light is eternal.
Rest in peace, DaD.
a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
Alt: a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ernest John Naples
Devoted Father & Husband
Architect • Master Craftsman • Audiophile
Lover of Beauty
(14 January 1942 - 24 November 2025)
Your life with us has passed; but your light is eternal.
Rest in peace, DaD.
Devoted Father & Husband
Architect • Master Craftsman • Audiophile
Lover of Beauty
(14 January 1942 - 24 November 2025)
Your life with us has passed; but your light is eternal.
Rest in peace, DaD.
A soul-soothing afternoon at Purissima Creek Redwoods, in Half Moon Bay, CA: the quiet, the woodland aromas, the soft, spongy forest floor -- just what the doctor ordered!
(Photo courtesy of my 14 y.o. son, Steven.)
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(Photo courtesy of my 14 y.o. son, Steven.)
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November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A soul-soothing afternoon at Purissima Creek Redwoods, in Half Moon Bay, CA: the quiet, the woodland aromas, the soft, spongy forest floor -- just what the doctor ordered!
(Photo courtesy of my 14 y.o. son, Steven.)
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(Photo courtesy of my 14 y.o. son, Steven.)
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My father, Ernest John Naples, has just begun his journey into blessed memory. He has offered me so much wisdom and guidance life, and I'd like to share some of that with you in this 🧵. If you would, please light a candle and say a prayer that his final journey is swift and peaceful. /|\
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November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My father, Ernest John Naples, has just begun his journey into blessed memory. He has offered me so much wisdom and guidance life, and I'd like to share some of that with you in this 🧵. If you would, please light a candle and say a prayer that his final journey is swift and peaceful. /|\
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What's wrong with this picture?
A giant, deep-dish pizza pan serving as our new bird bath because the critters flipped and broke the old (pale yellow) pottery bird bath. Birds do not seem to recognize this as a bird-bath, and the other critters are not drinking at it, either.
Any ideas why?
A giant, deep-dish pizza pan serving as our new bird bath because the critters flipped and broke the old (pale yellow) pottery bird bath. Birds do not seem to recognize this as a bird-bath, and the other critters are not drinking at it, either.
Any ideas why?
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What's wrong with this picture?
A giant, deep-dish pizza pan serving as our new bird bath because the critters flipped and broke the old (pale yellow) pottery bird bath. Birds do not seem to recognize this as a bird-bath, and the other critters are not drinking at it, either.
Any ideas why?
A giant, deep-dish pizza pan serving as our new bird bath because the critters flipped and broke the old (pale yellow) pottery bird bath. Birds do not seem to recognize this as a bird-bath, and the other critters are not drinking at it, either.
Any ideas why?
The IngramSpark presses are getting flooded with holiday orders. If you'd like to gift/receive a print copy of "World Druidry" this holiday season, order by Nov. 22!
Discounted, author-direct copies can now be purchased via
larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry...
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Discounted, author-direct copies can now be purchased via
larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The IngramSpark presses are getting flooded with holiday orders. If you'd like to gift/receive a print copy of "World Druidry" this holiday season, order by Nov. 22!
Discounted, author-direct copies can now be purchased via
larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry...
/|\ #druidsky #pagansky 🎁
Discounted, author-direct copies can now be purchased via
larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry...
/|\ #druidsky #pagansky 🎁