April Gavin

Celebrating Betty Reid Soskin’s life: Civil Rights storyteller, park ranger, songstress There wasn't an empty seat left at Henry J. Kaiser auditorium, evidence of how beloved the nation's oldest park ranger was.

There wasn't an empty seat left at Henry J. Kaiser auditorium, evidence of how beloved the nation's oldest park ranger was.

War: humanity’s default setting.

YouTube video by jasmine e Where have all the flowers gone -The kingston trio(lyrics)

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Every time I watch it, I see something I haven't seen before. 20 years later I still feel the beauty of it all.

One of my favorite movies! I watch it every year

When debate is futile – Bertrand Russell's remarkable response to a fascist's provocation www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/06/b...

Thanks Mark

That perspective looks difficult, but I am getting the vertigo

Best painting title ever:
Men fighting and women ignoring them
Mughal, 18th C

We're all suffering from political fatigue. We have to keep shining through

Letterpress cause schlepping is why I'm here! Keep at it!

3rd Saturday Shoreline Cleanup | City of Berkeley Join us every third Saturday of the month to help clean the litter off our shorelines.Plastic pollution is a huge problem on our shorelines. Plastic does not biodegrade, instead it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces which end up being mistaken as food by wildlife. Join us and spend some time volunteering to keep our Estuary clean and beautiful!

Trash doesn’t belong in the Bay.

You can help fix that.

🌊 Third Saturday Shoreline Cleanup at the Berkeley Waterfront
🗓️ March 21 | 9–11am
📍 160 University Ave

Berkeley shows up.

Pain has history.

Where would you go?

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful i…

How to live a miraculous life – Brian Doyle (snatched by death far too soon) on love, humility, and the quiet grace of the possible www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/26/b...

Loren Eiseley (one of my all-time favorite writers) on the first and final truth of life – gorgeous read: www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/11/l...

Now that is adorable

Love those shadows

The "never speak of it again" has a shut down effect. No wonder things are kept hidden

Play it George!!!!

And a man told you that... I'll laugh out loud with you

chair against wall with shadow of tree

#watercolor #printsky #grief This was round 2 of exploring color for this upcoming print. Not sure the green is working for me. ...

a woman in a sailboat on choppy seas

a woman on top of a light house and choppy seas

a woman on the edge of a journey staring at the voyage ahead

#mailart #fundforglobalhumanrights #lisbon,portugal #atelierghostbirds Promoting an online auction for Atelier Ghostbirds in Lisbon, Portugal. app.galabid.com/mail-art-exh... You can view and bid at the link. Prices start at 1 euro. These three pieces of mine are in the exhibition.

a man is walking through a grassy field with the words i 'm going on an adventure Alt: a hobbit is walking through a grassy field with the words "I'm going on an adventure!"

There are so many young adults and adults of all ages coming in to get a library card!

"A library card is the start of a journey." - Barbara Kingsolver

So much! And you'll accomplish it all. Even the birthday

A man uses a shovel to load dark compost into a green bucket beside a large compost pile, with text reading “East side of Marina Blvd — Get free compost anytime at the Berkeley Waterfront.”

If your garden could text you, it would say:
“Go to the Marina.”

🌱 Free compost
🗓️ New loads every Friday
📍 East side of Marina Blvd

Year-round. First-come, first-served. Bring your own containers.

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Newsom signs $590M mass transit bridge loan The much-anticipated deal will keep transit agencies afloat until a tax measure reaches voters in November.

The much-anticipated deal will keep transit agencies afloat until a tax measure reaches voters in November.

Love the colors and perspective

I do!

Berkeley calls off Harrison homeless camp closure for now The city confirmed just before publication that no cleanup operation would take place this week at Eighth and Harrison.

BREAKING: On Monday, critics held a press conference to decry city plans to clear Berkeley's last big homeless camp this week. Now, the plan is off.