Elizabeth S-F

Dear March, Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat-You must have walked - How out of breath you are. Emily Dickinson

Dear March, Come in -
How glad I am -
I hoped for you before -
Put down your Hat-
You must have walked -
How out of breath you are.
~ Emily Dickinson

Artwork: George William Russell

I see. Since revealing a person's heart and respiration rate does not seem to be much of a security violation, I am guessing the concern is she is wearing a device that is masquerading as a Whoop and has other capabilities.

YouTube video by Antônio Carlos Jobim - Topic Waters Of March (Aguas De Marco)

Enjoy a song to welcome March.

"Afloat, adrift
A flight, a wing
A hawk, a quail
The promise of spring

And the riverbank talks
Of the waters of March
It's the promise of life
It's the joy in your heart"

Moody grey clouds moving covering over one last bit of sun. Snow covered pasture surrounded by bare trees with a snow topped red barn in the distance. A black and white Border Collie dog stands on top of the snow facing the photographer.

View on my morning walk Sunday 1 March.

Yesterday we enjoyed sun and high of 50°F / 10°C which then froze with this morning's 30°F / -1°C. Dogs and I trekked to the back pasture (mostly) on top of the snow. Once there I proceeded to sink to my knees. Glimpsed a last hint of sun. Now it is snowing.

The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away [FREE TO READ] Every year, the weird, Womble-like ‘kurents’ gather in a medieval town in northeast Slovenia for one of the world’s most flamboyant carnivals

I can never recommend ignoring the news but maybe read this first as.ft.com/r/d2b6ae74-d...

From the photos it looks like she is wearing a Whoop. Hard to tell for sure. Whoop is a fitness tracker not a smart watch. This would explain why she wears a watch and tracker.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

YouTube video by Pete Seeger - Topic Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvG...

Painting that looks like a comic book panel showing a fighter pilot in a cockpit shooting down a plane, with text: That was their mistake - because it gave me more targets than I could shoot at" and "No. 4! One more to make ace!"

This is probably either a really good or really bad time to point out that this classic Roy Lichtenstein Pop art painting from 1962, showing a fighter pilot shooting down a military jet, is in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/en...

Cream and seal point (brown) colored longhair cat sits in profile in the sun on top of a closed laptop. Rays of sunshine stream through the window behind the cat causing the cat to be in shade and slightly out of focus.

Happy Caturday from Lefty.

#caturday, #catsofbluesky

and you look down on the train at the person in front of you who's tied their shoelaces in a different way and you wonder, I wonder if they invented that.
Or who did?"

End Thread

But if you sit and cross two threads and then the next day cross three more and then you move them over a little bit to the left or a little bit to the right or you tie your shoelaces in a new way

4/

And the immense accumulation of information that were taking in now it tends to be a masidan... tends to be a sort of mixture that finally one thing cancels out the other. It's so overwhelming.

3/

But in the morning, if you've just been talking on the telephone or peeling carrots or hanging out on Instagram, you're not going to see anything the following day except an accumulation of information.

2/

YouTube video by Louisiana Channel Artist Sheila Hicks: We're Crying for Softness

Something to think about. Artist Sheila Hicks says:

"If you work with thread material and you just do a cross stitch and you go to bed at night and wake up in the morning, you're going to see that cross stitch.

Thread

Colorful knitted dog bone-shaped toys. Picture and Pattern at https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fetch-

Wishing you quick complete bone knitting.

Picture by www.flickr.com/photos/krisp...

Blue sky over snow covered farm road and pasture.

View on my morning walk, Saturday, 28 February.

I hold this clear blue sky moment of beauty, in spite of everything happening. Sigh. It was 28°F / -2°C

Glad it went well. Keep that timer on for meds.

So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Nice looking lambs.

I hope your lambing goes smoothly.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Blue sky over snow covered pasture and bare trees. Border Collie dog walks on top of the snow in the middle distance.

View on my morning walk Friday, 27 February.

Another spirit lifting blue sky today. Dogs were walking on top of the snow and at times, to their surprise, not. Temp of 20°F / -7°C.

I made a donation today. 🏳️‍⚧️

If you are able, would you please make one today.

Blue sky over bare trees and pasture/farm road covered with snow. A Border Collie dog explores the snowfield.

View on my morning walk, Thursday 26 February.

Sunshine and a beautiful bluebird sky this morning. Felt warm at 28°F / -2°C

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

Fiction: This Is How You Lose The Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Non-Fiction: Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our
Deadliest Infection
by John Green

Oh no! Sorry your bones are not joining forces again.

Good luck with the consult and surgery.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.