Shannon Howard

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

American flag flying at the Geographic South Pole station with clear blue sky and snow-covered ground and Little Free Library.

Did you know there are Little Free Library book-sharing boxes on all seven continents? That's right! There's a Little Free Library at the South Pole! https://lflib.org/south-pole-library

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

clearly i need to Post More Bird. as if that wasnt my sole purpose online already

#welcome #autumn #impressionism #landscapepainting #art

This is great news

Sesame Street is the last remnant of the idea that television could educate and uplift kids and instruct them on how to be decent citizens and make them feel understood rather than persecuted

It needs to be where everyone can see it

A dirt road near Loch Turret in Scotland. There are mountains around the Loch.

Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.

Dahlia ‘Café Au Lait’ has been stunning this year in my Oregon garden. 🌱 #flowers

"Evening Light" - my oil painting

The fun of making art is not in having a “good” product at the end, and it’s not even necessary to be “good” at art at any point in the process to have fun with it. As an adult fiddle learner, I sound bad far more often than I sound good. AND YET, I have a blast when I join an old-time fiddle jam.

The sun setting over the trees. The sky is mostly grey and cloudy, but it’s starting to clear. There’s a small opening with beautiful shades of pink and blue.

A Window Of Hope. 🩶🕊️🩶

#WindowsOnWednesday #clouds #sky #sunset #scape #smArtist #solar

a tiny aloe plant with a post it note that says LEAVE ME ALONE! TRYING TO LIVE >:(

tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house

The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.

Handmade sign at the No Kings protest in Philadelphia. It says "Billionaires Are The Only Minority Ruining This Country"

#NoKings

There is still beauty in the world. (Japan, photographer Jii Tewari)

You also get a dog smile today

I will say this about Bluesky as a bubble: In this bubble, no one has said I should be "backhanded out of the room" or called me a word that rhymes with runt, both of which were specific Twitter add-ons

An rainbow arrangement of garden flowers placed on white fabric

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

April light

Purple tunnel of wisteria blooms on a hilltop in the city centre of Florence, Italy. In the background are the Tuscan hills and the city spreads out below with lots of terracotta roofs. The Duomo is large, especially the cupola.

The wisteria of Giardino Bardini today over Firenze

Oh to be a red-eared snapper turtle sunning oneself in a pond at a centuries-old zen temple in the ancient shogunal capital.

Never mind. Found it!

Would you be able to share the link?

I love the way it looks after rain!

Finished my presentation for PCA 2025. Getting excited for New Orleans!

"The Lennon-McCartney partnership was a force of life, stalked by deaths. They alchemized grief into a joy that still reverberates across the universe." At the Wall Street Journal, I reviewed Ian Leslie's lovely new Beatles meditation "John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

John Lennon Lost Lennon Tapes Volume 27 UNPLAYED BAG Colored Vinyl LP Plano, Texas

John Lennon Lost Lennon Tapes Volume 27 UNPLAYED BAG Colored Vinyl LP

All we are saying is to give peace a chance - John Lennon A major rain storm let me walk in Central Park and take a photo of the Imagine Circle alone! Let's us use peace instead of war in the world... #Imagine #NYC #StrawberryFields #LFK #CentralPark #Photography @deborah-milini.bsky.social