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Steph Cola
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Come on a journey with me.
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A few of my babies coming out in full swing. 🌺

#hibiscus
May 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Sometimes you have to temporarily adopt a Finn and take her to #Epcot for the first time.

#FinlandAmbassador #WeekendGeyaways #BookTheTrip #WelcomeToKuzkotopia #CompletewithWaterslide #DisneyMagic
Posing for a fun photo in China. About to embark on the Ratatouille ride in France. Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot. Hotel morning coffee overlooking the Disney lake and Magic Kingdom.
April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Getting ready for my first Bingo! Hosting at the local Suomi Talo (Finnish-American House).

Practicing my numbers. 😆
March 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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YAS! I have been recommended and voted unanimously to stay as my Library Board Chair. It honestly meant a lot to me, with vocal new members, who I thought would want the position. We have a solid great board and we are all aligned on our goal of keeping our Library as the best!
Selfie of myself in the mayor's seat during a Library board meeting in Boynton Beach.
March 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I'm in such awe of this caterpillar. Per #GoogleLens, it's a Fig Sphinx Moth. It blends in so well to my baby fig tree, but I'm blown away by the size.

#moth #caterpillar #figsphinx #ficuspachylia #growth #transformation
Fig Sphinx caterpillar Fig Sphinx caterpillar. Close up of his mouth. Fig Sphinx caterpillar Fig Sphinx caterpillar compared to the size of my German Shepherd.
March 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Excited to see marketers get public love in this ad in the @wsj.com today. Frustrated they're all executives (however, that's the basis of Marketers That Matter.) I'd love to see some worker-bee's get recognized.

#marketing #imatter
Full page ad in the Wall Street Journal paper highlighting specific executive marketers from Marketers That Matter.
March 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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All of my #hibiscus from this morning. 🥰🌺

#hibiscus #flower #addcolor
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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She brought me Monkey and fell asleep 😴 I missed my nuggets.

#bigpuppy #dogtoylife #shepherd
Jules sleeping on the couch using her Monkey and my legs her pillow.
March 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I haven't stopped, I'm not sure when that day will come, but I jumped straight from an out of state conference into a full-time volunteer job with the most amazing Finns on this planet.

In Lake Worth, swing by Midnight Sun Festival and let's talk all things Sister Cities.

#sistercities
March 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Just me running into a #librarian out in the wild. 🤘🏼

Thanks for being just pure amazing @roguelibrarian.bsky.social

#supportlibraries #antibookban
Selfie of myself with Shannon the Librarian I had just met.
March 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Hibiscus day at my house this morning. 🌺

#Hibiscus
February 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Cats and cats.

#caterpillar #kitty
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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My new morning routine. 🌅

@wsj.com got me with a flyer in the mail for a discounted year subscription. I didn't realize I'd get daily papers. 🥰 What a bonus.

#supportjournalism #wsj #newspaper
A photo of today's Wall Street Journal with iced coffee, two German Shepherds, and plants everywhere.
February 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I love that it functions on gravity. As one cart goes down. The other is pulled up the hill.
February 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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And the best way to get there. 🥰
February 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Flowers and bee butt's.

#beebutt #cranberryhibiscus #orchids
Cranberry hibiscus Orchids Bee butt in a flower enjoying some pollen. Another bee coming out of a flower.
February 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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"The banks work to create an illusion of an economic system, that works only for the 1%. They are working to deepen that gap between the 1% and the rest of the world."

The Panama Papers, 2018 documentary.
Peacock, YouTube

#PanamaPapers #economy #onepercent #richvspoor #international #journalism
The cover of the documentary, The Panama Papers. A black and white image with details in red of a man with tattoos in a suit.
January 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Exactly what I'm going for freehand. 💛🧡💜
January 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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An absolutely beautiful day at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm. I had my beginner tai chi class, and I feel ready to conquer anything and everything.

#mentalhealth #mountsbotanical #gardens #taichi #nosnow #westpalm #Florida #flowers
A landscape view of Mounts Botanical Gardens overlooking a still lake surrounded by trees. The sun is shining. A pathway under a plant-filled arch. A Pink Tassel Flower. Scarlett Flame Bean red flower.
January 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It's an appropriate time to share my first real snow adventure when I visited southern Germany with friends.

This Florida girl loved every second of it! Germany is a beautiful country with some super sweet people.

#travel #Germany #floridagirl #snow #Villingen-Schwenningen #gluhwein
Myself and my friend, Sandy, having our first gluhwein in a small cafe in Germany. We are bundled up as it was very cold. Camera pointing down at my feet standing in snow. My luggage is off to the side. A view from a train ride looking over a river landscape. Green forrest trees with blanketed white snow on the ground. Waiting at the train station with a landscape view of the tracks covered in snow.
January 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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WIP 🧶 I'm making this baby free-hand with no pattern. I plan for it to be a boho-vest of sorts. I just fell in love with the color gradient so we'll see.

#crochet #crochetaddict #hooker #wip #hobbii
The start of a crochet project with yellow yarn.
January 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My library didn't have an audio book I was looking for. I sent an email and crossed my fingers. They ordered it for me!

When in doubt, just ask. 📚

#library #audiobook #brookeharrington #offshore #librariansarethebest
January 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My walk from Caminha to Tui was beautiful and flat along the river, but LONG! It was the one time I actually called an Uber (and one wasn't available). I struggled but kept walking. I wish there was a water taxi I could've taken.

And I would do it again.
January 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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While the states are covered in snow, I'm just excited for all of this rain. My plants are too. 🌺

#hibiscus #southflorida #gardening #orchidbabies
January 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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She looks like my girl. ❤️
January 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM