Happy Valentines Day - from my weird heart to yours.
#originalart

Be Mine ...looking for love in a shoebox

We live in a nation where the sitting President just signed an executive order ending an effort to replace plastic straws with paper, but we can’t enact gun safety laws? What the fuck?

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Under this Roof ...a realization and reflection

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“It has remained whole… refusing to unwrap the strong safety of its arms. It has been sanctuary.”

Yes!!!!

Hallelujah! It’s about time

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

Trump Tax report if tariffs go into effect:

If you’re buying a new car, estimates say you’ll spend up to $3k more for it – after the Trump Tax is applied.

And if you need an oil change, reports say the Trump Tax will push prices over $100.

Promises made. Promises broken.

February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

February 2, 2025

Balancing the Tide This pachyderm and his rolling waves are a fond favorite.

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She Rises from the "She's Still Here" protest collection

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Creative on Purpose | Substack These are reflections about uncommonly messy realities from a very common but curious human. It's also a guide to picking up beach glass, growing old and intentionally wandering about with words, art ...

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Changing Trains the movement from one platform to another

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Here goes!

Post-Election Letter To A Friend What do we do now?

Post-Election Letter To A Friend
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She sleeps; she dreams; she quietly finds a path of moonlight. #originalart #sketchwork

This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky

Breathe first.
Then go ahead, react.

Archers (A blessing for the last day of the year.)               The finches indulge in sweet gluttony at the feeders this morning… their tawny and golden breasts a…

“Here is the stuff that survival is built on:
the courage to come out into the world;
the grace to live in humble beauty;
the will to survive, and
the instinct and desire to do it over and over and over –
because that’s how we move forward in time.”

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“migration is hope” by Martha Lee Phelps

Mixed media (monoprint, ink, watercolor, collage - 1963 Geographia World Atlas)

Inspired by Frederick Douglass, speaking in 1869 against the movement to ban Chinese immigration.

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