Kristin Summerlin

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To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus To solve the climate crisis, power must flow away from the billionaire class

To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class

Excellent piece in the Guardian by @climatehuman.bsky.social.

I wonder how thermoplastic would work as a filler between irregular stones and the setting?

Really?

That’s great news, though. Good you got it done so quickly. Hope the recovery is easy and fast.

I love him. So fluffy. 😁

Yup. It was a very old bear that had been breaking into cabins. After we got outta there and back to the truck, we heard him trying to get into a bear-proof trash can. Dan wanted to go back and look at him, but I told him to sit his butt *down* in the truck. 🤣🤣🤣

Wolf scat, down in Slana a few years ago. There was also a bear — a big old smart bear that let us walk right by him without realizing he was there until we saw his tracks crossed ours on the way back. 😬 I think I also have a pic of that. Will look.

Boots and scat. 🤣

Hope they enjoy that giardia.

July really was as cold as I remembered. Unhappy garden.

If you see this, post a pic from your device without any explanation.

Dammit.

Terrifying.

Vertical.

Yes. When I’m stressed, these kinds of images flash through my brain with no control — weeks, months, decades later. I can’t unsee and can’t unstore them.

Finally, Mama’s sugar cookies. Christmas seems merrier.

I’ll just say it put me in the bed. But still feel lucky I could get it. I’ll wait a few days to find the Covid booster. 🤣

Had mine with a flu shot Thursday and dang. Knocked me on my butt. And yeah, it did sting. Totally worth it, tho, no matter how punky I feel. I’m a good bit older and have been lucky but no longer want to tempt fate. Wanted to get my Covid booster but Bassett doesn’t have them. 🫤

I love this! Serendipity. Did you make prints of that one?

Wait. I didn’t know this. Who?

This is a really good thread on why these types of accounts exist and what the goal is! Manipulating the temperature of the conversation and setting people on edge serves a *lot* of purposes. #BadActorBingo

Photograph of the tops of red and green Sphagnum moss plants.

Individual Sphagnum mosses lack structure and are prone to stress and desiccation. As an intertwined community, they fight off massive wildfires and protect the world’s largest soil carbon stock. They also nonchalantly preserve bog bodies.

Learn from Sphagnum. Be the Sphagnum.

Looking back at a snowshoe trail through tall spruce trees heavy with snow. Dusk.

Today’s snowshoe trail at 4:11 p.m. Gorgeous, warm. About 10 below. Perfect. A lot brighter in the photo, but look at those blues! #AlaskaSky

Photo taken from a window inside a dark room. Deep snow covers the ground and the spruce trees. About 12” of snow is piled on the slanted roof of a small shed nearby, with a log doghouse and an outhouse similarly snowed in further away.

From my kitchen window.

It wasn’t. The snow still reflects what light there is. It feels like alchemy, somehow. Going out again shortly. Will be dark before I get back.

This was a helpful read this morning. Thanks.

This painting took nearly a year to complete. Over that year, the world has seemingly been spinning on an axis that we don’t read about in Astronomy books. Working on this painting was my reminder to hold on to the people and things that slow it all down and bring life back into focus.
#art