Cassie Premo Steele

Do you remember a few weeks ago when I posted about saving 1000 tree frog eggs and creating a pond with my wife so we could raise the tadpoles? Well, may I present to you Soujourner, the first frog to leave the pond and take residence on the grasses nearby. Oh, my. Oh, my heart. #nature

There once was a man with a stash
Of what he found hateful and trash
So he hired some goons slapdash
To go out and target and clash
But the courts said Not So Rash
This stinks like old succotash
The goons were locked up in a flash
And the leader was removed from his ill gotten cash

#vss365 #clash

This is my kind of water aerobics class….

Full moon glowing through clouds

Today as the floodgates
To the moon open and bodies
Let go of the weight we’ve been
Carrying that is too great for one,
We can begin to associate with
The collective, together, now,
Gathering our power to create.

#vss365 #associate #fullmoon #moon

Americans have bad mad cad sad fad lad gonad to rhyme with the word

AD

And Brits have skirt shirt pert flirt insert squirt to rhyme with the word

ADVERT

And that sums up today’s lesson in American-British political economics

#vss365 #advert

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Anne Frank, 1943

Maybe someone in the administration did actually once read a book.

Donate to our Sea Otter Program | Monterey Bay Aquarium Make a donation to help us rescue, rehabilitate, release and research sea otters.

So next time you’re feeling like a showgirl, maybe it’s time to don a thrifted tee, sing a little song and save otters and our waters while you’re at it. Our main focus is on re-releasing otters, so you can support the species Taylor’s repping by donating to our Sea Otter Program mbayaq.co/4gYM99i

My advice is to subscribe to Oklahoma Today, which is an amazing magazine featuring all the special cultural and natural resources in the state!
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From the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma: Allen Ginsberg said of Bob Dylan: conscious song can, every syllable pronounced, every consonant sneered out with lips risen over teeth to pronounce them exactly to a I in microphone, snarled out NOT for bummer ego put-down but instead for egoless enunciation of exact phrasings so everyone can hear intelligence--which is only yr own heart Dear. later Isis here recorded, the singer developed onstage sung for weeks whiteface, big grey hat stuck with November leaves & flowers--no instrument in hand, thin Chaplinesque body dancing to - syllables& sustained by Polling Thunhe • band rhythm following Dylan's spontaneous retards & talk-like mouthings for With two Part dialogul - clarity, "It's only natchural." So you can hear it! • Big dis- ни стоку covery, these songs aT blindche Poetry-music as dreamt of in the '50s & early '60s--Steady rhythm, elastic language, poet alone at microphone reciting-singing surreal-history love text ending in giant "YEAH!" when minstrel gives his heart away & says he "You may notse me to morsa." wants to stayA Dylan will stay here with us-so he lets loose his long-vowel yowls & yawps over small towns' antennaed woRk rooftops. Torsis Moon Lady hanguage Creator Berth Goddess, Sarasuate de tali-Ma tor, Hecate, Ea de tophia de Ahrodite, Rivino Mpeter. ratarte, L-Poets reciting. Chantig e/perinentig rota snorements an bongo - Also text can be found at https://allenginsberg.org/2016/08/allen-ginsberg-on-bob-dylans-desire-2/

Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan:

“behind the elastic language. poet alone at microphone
reciting-singing surreal-history love text … minstrel gives his heart away & says he wants to stay.”

Poets, if someone said this of us, certainly that’s all it would take to make our day.

#vss365 #elastic #poetry

Thank you! 🐙

As Federal Government Retreats, A Private Fund to Save Sea Otters Steps in The initiative aims to restore the imperiled animals to the US West Coast to make marine ecosystems more resilient to climate change.

New: An ambitious plan aims to restore imperiled sea otters to their historic range on the US West Coast. The playful predators are climate warriors, reviving coastal ecosystems and keeping healthy carbon-sequestering kelp forests that nurture fisheries. Free link.
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Joan Baez is Calculating How Much She’s Willing to Risk The legendary singer and activist says the world is scarier now. How’s she coping? By dancing with drag queens.

Joan Baez said to live 85% in denial and with the reminding 15% to take action with a healthy heart and mind. When the pulp is discarded, we will remember this as wise advice. The point is to survive so we can heal and not make the same mistake.

#vss365 #pulp #resist @nicollewallace.bsky.social

Thanks, Kathleen! 💚

Thanks so much, @midgeraymond.bsky.social ! 🩵💚💙 #environmental
#science and #creativewriting

Cass has a class for you! 4-week online class starts Tuesday!

My new class starts Tuesday and I’d love for you to join me!
#writingcommunity
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Thanks, Rick!

I love this! 💚

THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE PRESERVE You stand at the south edge of the largest unplowed, protected tract which remains of the 142 million acres of tallgrass prairie grassland that once stretched from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, less than ten percent still exists, found mostly in the Flint and Osage Hill regions of Kansas and Oklahoma. In an increasingly crowded and noisy world, what you see is an oasis of space and silence. Here you can experience the same beautiful vistas that greeted the earliest human hunters and gatherers many thousands of years ago. This area is indeed a rational treasure. Please treat it with respect. For additional information about this preserve and its unique history, visit the preserve headquarters gift shop and nature room, another ten miles north on this road. This preserve is owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy, a private, nonprofit organization.

What if
The oasis
We dream of
Is still
Here
Under all
Our fear
That ricochets
Like bullets
Across the
Tall grass
Prairie
And despite
The dangers
We make
And face
The buffalo
Still stomp
Remembering
The rhythm
We used to hear

#vss365 #oasis

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

Oh thank you, Jane Goodall, for all the good you did. May we carry on with your legacy and may your memory be a blessing to the human and more than human communities.

Thanks, Beth! 💜

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

The poet’s wife with a German beer in front of a fire at an inn in Pennsylvania the night before a dear friend’s wedding.

“Sometimes it is all a blur,” I said to her, trying not to despair.

“Put your glasses on then,” she said, taking another sip of her beer and laughing before kissing me all over my face.

It was then that it came back to me - why I’d fallen in love with her in the first place.

#vss365 #blur

David Gray + Natalie Merchant + REM + Nahko and Medicine for the People + Cloud Cult are my top 5 anywhere anytime

Take good care of yourself. We are all rooting for you! 🩵

She had a gig at a place called Conundrum, paused before one of the songs, asked me to join her on stage, surprised me with an engagement ring, I said yes-

10 years later we had a vow renewal ceremony with family and friends under the mother daughter tulip poplar trees-

Yes.

#vss365 #condundrum

Thanks for your leadership! 🤗

Thanks so much h, Gazda! 💚