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Carina

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January 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM

Carina

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“Just because we’re refusing to sacrifice our safety and our wellbeing for this does not mean we don’t care. This is our profession, these are our lives.”

Pay 👏🏼 people 👏🏼 living 👏🏼 wages.

www.denverpost.com/2026/01/06/t...

Telluride faces looming ‘economic crisis’ if ski resort doesn’t fully reopen soon, leaders warn

Mayor Teddy Errico called it “an unprecedented situation” in his state-of-the-town address.

www.denverpost.com

January 7, 2026 at 5:22 AM

Carina

@rinastar.bsky.social

River walk #nature #colorado

January 7, 2026 at 3:24 AM

Carina

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Zion is on the list #travel #desert #nature

Christina @just-wandering.bsky.social · 6d

Another shot of Zion, this time from near the entrance of the park. Those wispy low-lying clouds were so cool.

#landscapephotography #beautifulnature #photography #zionnationalpark #hiking #nature #beauty

Wide shot of Zion National Park, with a split rail fence in the foreground and red rock formations and a cloudy blue sky in the background.

January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM

Carina

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#booksky

January 5, 2026 at 4:46 AM

Reposted by Carina

M L Clark

@mlclark.bsky.social

Leave it to Mary Oliver to sum up what I said in a long-winded essay in one beautiful, heart-wrenching poem. 🤨

(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)

#Poetry #PoetryBreak

Of The Empire

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Mary Oliver
Red Bird (2008)

January 5, 2026 at 4:31 AM

Carina

@rinastar.bsky.social

Spring equinox is the true new year. Still hibernating over here. #nature

January 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM

Carina

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Trip to cedar grove saunas at popham beach state park #maine

January 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM

Carina

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Bills rain game

December 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Carina

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XMAS TREX BEACH #copperchristmas

December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Carina

@rinastar.bsky.social

Sunsets over the years to celebrate winter solstice #solstice #deepbreathes

December 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Carina

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Echo billieves

December 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Carina

@rinastar.bsky.social

Ikonic on-mountain Christmas Eve BBQ last year ❄️🎿🍗

December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Carina

@rinastar.bsky.social

I want to go

Ben Horne @benhorne.bsky.social · 24d

This photo was also taken on last month’s visit to North Coyote buttes. I love the soft pastel color palette of Provia in subdued light. Photographed on Fuji Provia 100F 8x10 film with my Chamonix Alpinist X 8x10 camera and a Fujinon C 450mm lens.