Witch of Wellfleet

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

I intend to die without having seen Jaws.

We have *excellent* taste and Lia is a genius

Second one is coming to me!

Note Left by Humanity in the Ruins after Heaney Sometimes we gave water to our neighbors. Sometimes we didn't hunt each other. Sometimes our fathers weren't broken and told to kiss their homes that would be stolen. Sometimes there was bread and wine on the tables and sometimes we remembered there was no such thing as someone else's mother; there was no such thing as someone else's child. Sometimes there were hearts that we could hear. Listen. We forgot that we could listen. Sometimes, when the fires died, it was dark enough. We walked out and we looked up and we saw it: the starlight, the starlight that had made us. Sometimes no one lay in any rubble with seven braids in her hair— a braid for every year she'd had. A braid for every year. —Joseph Fasano

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Sun setting over the Jimmy Lyon’s arena stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival

Sunset at the Monterey Jazz Festival #livemusic #MJF

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Shoot me now.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

I just took possession of an old family spinning wheel and am looking forward to being able to spin up little skeins of this and that for tapestry weaving projects. For me, it’s not the crunch, but the *control*.

It’s sea otter awareness week! Did you know the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule in April that would rescind the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act? This narrowing of harm could allow activities that wreck sea otter habitat, like those that increase risks of oil spills.

Lia's This House Was Made for Walkin' | Peculiarity Shop Lia fashioned Baba Yaga's hut into a brooch. We love the result! Components: Silk velvet, seed beads, heart beads, silver plate pin back/bail, ultrasuede (vegan), craft wire, floral tape, nail polish ...

My heart!

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means “There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”

Ursula K. Le Guin's classic on growing old and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...

Laver Cup tennis, before the day session, in the Chase Center

Time for tennis! #LaverCup

Saoirse!

Oh no!

Pacific sunset, gray-blue ocean below, tiny sliver of sun disk, and striated orange-red sky. Tree branches below and on the right.

The coast abides.

Oh wow—where, please?

Antique black spinning wheel, some parts missing, on a honey oak floor

Got this beauty this week, passed on from another family member, and originally from a family farm. Needs a bath and some TLC, but I should be able to get it working again soon. #spinning

Oh, I *love* this!

Viking ships make final high-risk voyage to new Oslo home Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway.

They’re moving these 1200-year-old Viking ships at 4 mm/s!

I do not want a *thin* iPhone. I want a *small* iPhone.

I am in favor of putting Voids in charge of mass transit

A Navajo weaving hanging on a wall. The pattern appears abstract: thick white lines in varying directions on a black background. There are some reddish-orange diamonds near the edges, as well as a few thin outlined rectangles. There are three larger squares with a double-H pattern inside. Overall, the pattern looks a bit like an aerial view of roads in a strange ancient city. Thanks to First American Art Magazine for this photo.

Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...

Got my Covid vax & flu shot at CVS this afternoon—no questions, no problems, no waiting.

Not gonna make it through the third set of this US Open tennis match tonight and I’m watching from the *west* coast.

In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

NEW JWST IMAGE AND IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PICTURE I’VE EVER SEEN OH MY GOD THE UNIVERSE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

“Creating safety in someone else’s life is perhaps among the greatest of possible human activities.”

Grover from the Monster at the end of this book lamenting that you turned the page. It's a Master class on how to use speech bubbles to evoke emotions.

I suspect this is the most influential splash page in the English language.

Yes, yes they do. Makes me glad my contributions are mostly on the front end.