Laura Christine Ó Donnell

⚡️ One-in-a-million moment — a tree struck by lightning, frozen in time. 📸 Captured by Donnie Dania, West Virginia

William Harnett, born 10 August 1848.

Incredibly talented and musically gifted.
James P. Johnson, the stride (jazz piano) man. ❤️

"If he needs a million acres
to make him feel rich,
seems to me he needs it 'cause
he feels awful poor inside hisself,
and if he's poor in hisself
there aren't no million acres
gonna make him feel rich."

John Steinbeck
(The Grapes of Wrath)
Photo by Jagdeep Singh
Place: Jaisalmer Fort,Rajasthan

The greatest distance in the world #6: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
It's amazing. They were both great poets from the same time and country, but they never met.

#booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting #amreading #reader #bookstagram #poet #EmilyDickinson #WaltWhitman #Art #blueskyartshow

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left."

Maurice Maeterlinck
(1862-1949)
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🌸 🌸 🦋 🌹 🐝
An Indian bee 🐝 is saying hello 👋🏼 to the beautiful world 🌎 💫 🍀
for love & Peace 💓
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(Photo by Kirpal)

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Tea fields in Ribeira Grande [Gorreana Tea Factory]
São Miguel, Azores Islands, Portugal

#Photography #Photographie #Paysage #Landschaft #Scape #Landscape #Landscapephotography #Nature #Naturephotography #Outdoor #Outdoorphotography #Travel #Travelphotography #Azores #Portugal
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Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

Beautiful.

"Delegates from Navajo, Comanche, Kiowa Sioux, Pueblo and Lakota nations in North America attended this year’s Garma Festival [to] exchangi[e] traditions and knowledge."

"As an Indigenous people we are close to nature, this ground, trees, I can feel the power, the good energy here.”

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In the end, it's the [titchy through to the larger] acts of kindness we do that matter 💚

#greenwitch #harmnone #peace #love #kindness #health #healing #bethechange

"Science does not proceed by sequentially establishing unassailable conclusions, but rather by steadily accumulating numerous lines of evidence, scrutinizing weaknesses, and pursuing additional evidence."

"Interference [...] by political arbiters stifles scientists’ freedom of speech and thought."

True words. True words.

Climate science is literally Nobel Prize winning science. Just sayin’.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

It’s weird that people have a huge problem with tax dollars being used to subsidize part of the cost of someone’s soda with SNAP, and no problem with our tax dollars being used to subsidize the entire cost of a billionaire’s private jets and yachts with Trump’s tax cuts.

Wow. Incredible article with some beautiful photos included. ✨

"GunaiKurnai oral traditions hold that such caves weren’t used for ordinary living. They were only frequented by special individuals, mulla-mullung – medicine men and women who wielded powerful knowledge."

Yes, a fantastic article.

"'What I was really interested in was whether Aboriginal people had really studied the sky, and understood how the sky works [...]"

"'So, spoiler alert,' [Professor Ray Norris] says with mock drama. 'Yeah, they really did.'”

Yes, the incompetence and utter stupidity!

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There are so many wildfires around the world.

"Serge Zaka, a climate scientist, said: 'We’ve never seen a fire spread so fast this century.'”

‘Unhealthy’ wildfire smoke billows into Seattle, Bellevue Winds were pushing smoke toward Seattle — similar to an earlier wave over the weekend. This round of smoke will likely stick around through morning Tuesday.

‘Unhealthy’ wildfire smoke billows into Seattle, Bellevue

"The new study revealed eight 'signals' in genetic code where people with ME tended to have markedly different gene variants compared to the healthy population."

Evidence suggests that, "ME may be caused by processes in the immune and nervous systems."

Japan counts 900,000 fewer Japanese nationals as foreign residents set new high The number of Japanese nationals in the country on Jan. 1 was 120.7 million, while the number of foreign residents had risen 10.65% in a year to 3.68 million.

The number of Japanese nationals in Japan fell by around 910,000 during 2024, to 120.7 million, while the population of foreign residents rose 10.65%, to 3.68 million.

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

Pawol to become first woman to ump MLB game Jen Pawol, who worked spring training games the past couple of years, is set to become the first woman to umpire an MLB game, between the Marlins and Braves on Saturday.

Well, this is pretty fantastic.

Beneath America, a large, buried heat blob is moving The moving mass was set in motion by tectonic events that happened more than 90 million years ago.

Lots of recent scientific articles on this activity, but attached is a quick and easy read. I saw scientific articles on signs of awakening as early as 2016.

www.newsweek.com/deep-heat-be... Beneath America, a Large Buried Heat Blob Is Moving - Newsweek

Dreamworlds
~Susan Seddon Boulet, 1990