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In Seattle, Mary Poppins the Musical Is a Joy Through Generations The stage version of this famously fantastical nanny brings a big spoonful of sugar for the holidays. The 5th Avenue Theatre's joyous production of Mary Poppins runs through 12/29.

My friend Mallory is Mary Poppins! So great to get to see the musical at 5th Ave theater here in #seattle nwtheatre.org/2024/12/12/m...

Wendell Berry

A Holiday Strike at Amazon? Amazon workers at ten warehouses will strike if the company does not begin bargaining by Sunday.

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Beautiful way of seeing. If you're open to publishing ideas, let's set up a call. I've published art for a greener more just world for 25 years, love talking with artists like you.

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Beautiful. Put your name in your art so when people save it they can find your website.

Republicans take aim at subsidies that help tens of millions of women Conservatives have long desired to slash programs that help with healthcare, food, housing and transportation

Tax the rich

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Robert Hershon love poem

Thanks for the reminder on grayscale. Helps. So would regulating these big tech cos programming our kids. Meta us spending 200k a day to block legislation that would modestly protect us from addictive design

Protect This Place: Latin America’s Gran Chaco Forest • The Revelator Beef and soybean agriculture are carving up this massive forest, which has some of the world’s highest deforestation.

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks Forget big change, start with a tiny habit: BJ Fogg at TEDxFremont

Coaching notes: once you've identified what you want to change, I love BJ Foggs tiny habits to make the changes permanent youtu.be/AdKUJxjn-R8?...

Solstice is in sight!

Based Seattle

A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care. U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...

NEW: The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance refused to pay for it.

A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale, a new study found.

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A Year in Reading: On Paying Attention - Longreads A year of adopting new ways of seeing.

This year-end collection features conversations and stories with @jennitaur.bsky.social, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Willa Köerner, @theuniverse.bsky.social, @ferrisjabr.bsky.social, @benjij.bsky.social, and @jarodkanderson.bsky.social:

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Tim Colman on Substack Discover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack.

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Amazing day in Seattle. Hope you get a raincoat for manana

Just for to see you are here. I left Twitter a while back and used to follow you there. Are you on substack too?

The friendship problem Why friendships have started to feel strikingly similar to admin

Thought provoking story about loneliness and what killed our super social society open.substack.com/pub/rojospin...

The latest developments in a possible emerging bird flu pandemic are absolutely terrifying

This has the potential to be far more lethal, far more catastrophic, than COVID-19

And once again the country is neither adequately prepared nor reacting quickly enough or with sufficient measures

Today’s Featured Poet:

Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border, then raised in England and Tennessee. Her poetry debut, Mass for Shut-Ins (2023), won the 117th Yale Younger Poets Prize and a California Book Award.

Those are all our voters fed up without a working class party. Abolish billionaires and poverty. Then do it.

Love that view. Camera just doesn't capture the aquamarine mind you become standing there and becoming one with everything.

Gorge Lake, North Cascades National Park, Washington