Kelsavino

A hand thrown stoneware teapot with a tiny house on the lid and a glaze inlay (layered using wax) making red swirls on a coffee-with-creqm colored background.

I made a teapot.

Hosting “pirate camp” at a small lake with a great troop of Girl Scouts, who ran the pride flag up the pole right under the Jolly Roger.

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

Sneak peak at all of America tomorrow for “No Kings Day” 🍊🦅🇺🇸

Packing for the lake, I scribbled myself a note to remember the stretchy elastics I use for physical therapy. Forgot all about it and later found a folded note in my pocket that said “Find Resistance Bands”. So. Know any? today? I’ve got nothing since CSN&Y except Carsie Blanton.

“It’s Haagen-Dasz! We ride at dawn!”

So fun fact, apparently if you leave an ice cream spoon on the edge of the bathtub, within 24 hours a line of ants will appear from nowhere marching single file and make a civilization about it.

Don’t judge me. It’s been a long week.

Here is why comparison is the thief of joy. You need friends who are smarter than you, braver than you, who do what you want to do, only better. Be inspired to stretch and reach and challenge yourself. You can’t do that if you are always measuring yourself as coming up short.

It was time to leave FB, and I stayed. I rationalized: it was my link to local libs, my friends, my sanity. But the fact is, I moved a firm boundary to stay connected. Hard question: what would you tolerate just to keep your cellular, WiFi, streaming, Bluetooth? When’s the last time you did without?

Carrot seedlings in a box and March-in-Ohio lettuce starting in a pot, in a janky little hoop house made of scrounged brick and trash picked shower doors :) also the patched jeans of my knee (sitting cross cross applesauce)

I may be “needs a little stool in the hoop house” years old. A bionic hip apparently does not make me wonder woman. Happy to play in the dirt and hear rain on the roof at the same time.

Books. Absurd numbers of books. It’s my root cellar of survival backup dopamine, for when this data stream gets too hard to navigate.

You can always teach it to other people how to do the thing. On a good day it feels like the expansion of human knowledge and capability. In a bad day it feels like a pyramid scheme.

Straight down seems bad

Maybe anxiety is just urgency with no outlet. My choices these days: 1.) physically work myself to exhaustion, or 2.) bungle through daily adult tasks like I’m on a deadline and getting a C- in life. Is it too late to cut the soles off my shoes, sit in a tree, and learn to play the flute?

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

Smart woman. I was never vain about getting older but it sucks when the equipment starts to wear out. I have stuff to do before I’m 100.

My city grandma wore heels only until her bunions made her feet into triangles and the ligaments in the back of her ankle shortened and she had to get bedroom slippers with heels. Her fees were a horrible deformed version of Barbie feet, always tiptoe.

Also: ditch high heels. They might give you a pert posture and sexy wobble but you can’t fight or flee in them, and they ruin your joints as you age. Ancient Asian foot binding marked women as owned, helpless and unable to work, therefore prestigious. Not the goal. Walk, don’t wobble.

It’s insane how much JD wants to look like Zelenskyy. No suit btw

Cargo cult ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wonderful grandparents are easy to adopt. Some never had kids, or have kids far away. Many are entering a lonely or vulnerable time of doctor visits, or caring for a partner, and need help. Scammers and tech can be bewildering for old folks and you could be truly useful, and loved, and accepted .

Purple neon sign that says Literacy for All

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

I feel honored to be part of your day. Sharing your journey is a kindness to the rest of us who forget there’s a timeline. You’re a memento mori on the timeline and a reminder to be present and not waste time.

For years, the best advice for artists and artisans has been “don’t quit your day job”, or “move to Canada”. No matter how wildly successful you were as a musician, potter, painter, sculptor, actor, before ACA you were one bad mammogram away from losing everything. Our culture is richer for ACA.

My fanciest grandmother had ivory colored monogram-embroidered linens and towels as thick as fur. I am less fancy. But my mismatched, multicolored and threadbare bath towels include at least three with the sharpied name of whichever of my now-grown children was off to scout camp. So I’m good.

Rachel Carson

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

Trump baffles with bizarre comment about 'transgender mice' in Congress speech Donald Trump baffled viewers of his congressional address when he discussed the $8 million he said he and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had found for "making mice transgender"

Cancer research is going to disappear in the US because apparently no one in US leadership ever took a biology class. “DOGE found $8 million grant to make mice transgender. This is real.”

- Donald Trump, talking about transgenic mice to the world

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On the topic of structure and schedule, composer John Adams said,
“I somehow have this feeling that to keep the spontaneity of my creative work fresh, I need to be in a state of rather shocking irresponsibility.”

Communication (thus information) is not only easy to filter, it can also be turned off completely. Not just by satellites built to kill other satellites, but now by Elon, who threatens Ukraine with Starlink denial. What happens when cell/wifi/TV/connectivity becomes the “or else“ for us all?