Purple Reign

good to see you demystifying digital payment

Chicken Feed | Under the Jacarandas | Sandra Stephens | Substack Welcome to the chicken feed! Get special updates on the chicken gang, videos and portraits of your favorite roos and hens of Casa dos Galos in Belas, Portugal. This content is for Paid Subscribers, t...

Some of my subscribers are just here for the chickens, so I created The Chicken Feed. underthejacarandas.substack.com/s/chicken-feed

My love 🤎

YouTube video by Tove Lo Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love (Official Music Video)

I am obsessed with the Tove Lo musical sci fi love story No One Dies From Love. youtu.be/CMWLX0KXwF4?...

Alison Krauss – Dreaming My Dreams With You I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore / I hope that I've learned this time / I hope that I find what I'm reaching for / The way that it is in my mind / Someday I'll get over

genius.com/Alison-kraus...

The garlic and tomatoes are great, the carrots taste fine despite a disturbing Cronenbergianness

my little goth rooster

Glass, Metal, Wood, Stone reflecting on the importance of things

Things are more than the wood and metal, glass and stone they are made of; they hold the imprints of friends and family until they themselves become friends and family... the past manifest in the present, as temporarily ours as life itself.

underthejacarandas.substack.com/p/glass-meta...

Blue (in) Green and Gold a jazzy update to life at Quinta dos Galos, Belas Portugal

still renovating the property in Portugal - get caught up! open.substack.com/pub/underthe...

If it's not one thing it's another... from chi-chi to xixi

I moved to Portugal, and it's been a TRIP underthejacarandas.substack.com/p/if-its-not...

An illustrated graphic with a textured blue and yellow background featuring scattered books and small blue hearts. The text reads: "KidLit Book Launches, Jan. 13–19, 2025." Additional text in smaller font says, "If you have a children’s book launching during this week, please reply with your book in one post (use alt text with images)." Artwork by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (DebbieOhi.com).

If you have a #KidLit book launching Jan.13-19, 2025, reply w/ your book cover (with alt text), title, author & illustrator, publisher, launch date, link to where people can find more info.

Pls add good karma to universe by helping to boost! It's a tough time to be launching books. #BookBirthday

SAME

a tabby cat in a sink curled up

cats are liquids

memory foam mattress and a silk pillow case for me!

stop with the ppl wearing glasses are smart trope. we literally have to fail a test to get these.

Roosters drying off

it SHOULD be true

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Three Extra Jesuses and a Parakeet In a Pear Tree Last week Alberto brought over a bag of Christmas decorations that he and Rosa have no place for.

I like mincemeat pie, there I said it. underthejacarandas.substack.com/p/three-extr...

In the past month I've read stories about a banana that cost more than 5 million, shoes that cost more than 30 million. Is it endtimes?

As journalists think of leaving X for Bluesky and Threads, media experts see pros and cons - Poynter People are leaving the Elon Musk-owned X in droves, in favor Threads and Bluesky. Both experienced tremendous growth this fall. Poynter spoke with journalists about the pros and cons.

“Emily Liu, who works on partnerships and growth at Bluesky, said the open network sees journalists as one of its core communities. Liu used to work in journalism, too, as a newsroom engineer for The Washington Post.”

Defined and Diminished by Gun Violence Centuries of inequitable social policy have kept Black Philadelphians dying at disproportionately high rates.

In 1896, W.E.B. Du Bois came to Philly to conduct the nation’s first sociological case study of a Black community. His work names the vestiges of slavery and ensuing racial discrimination as key culprits responsible for many Black people being subject to disproportionate levels of gun violence.

I plan to get it for my birthday next week!

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em

TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

I too am returning to books after an absence, and I've decided I absolutely need to read All Fours by Miranda July over the holidays. The conversations about it! I want to join them, I can't wait to hear your take on the book

i gotta bone to pick with michael
he keeps texting, calling me, I guess
he keeps forgetting we're not in love anymore

How to cope with an increasingly turbulent world?

Currently, I'm cuddling with Mabel & avoiding reality entirely.

my granddaughter trying out her Mona Lisa smile

thank god I only implied i was offering my sexual services to one person (he called me up and laughed and laughed about it)