Alison Honeybone

While many cannot visit Kyiv,
and perhaps not everyone will be able to even after the war,
I’m honored to be your eyes into my beloved city and country.

It lives.

Save this place for the future (or the present): Kitchen & Garden
www.instagram.com/kitchen.gard...

YouTube video by NPR Music De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert

In case anyone needs some good vibes today youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

You make so many good points in this thread Ben. Do you think this may even be part of the reason for the backlog situation we currently face? That in fact we don't have the research to actually address the issues we promise to fix?

Too many of our SEND interventions make provision worse We must call out unevidenced practices and debunked ideas pervading EHCPs

4. Except we're building this on an assumption that's highly suspect at least. The @schoolsweek.bsky.social investigation into what was on EHCPs was hair raising. So much dubious practice.
schoolsweek.co.uk/send-provisi...

Screenshot of text from the linked story overlaid on a lino cut print of a telegraph pole.

Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
One final five minute call with someone you never said something you should have to.
Who would you call? What would you say?
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...

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Harriet Tubman

#WomensHistoryMonth2026
Harriet Tubman

Born enslaved in Dorchester County,she became the most influential conductors of the underground railroad. She escaped slavery 1849, but helped more Marylanders.She helped guide 70 people to freedom. Explore more on Harriet Tubman Byway Maryland.

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/a...

I spent years trying to fit
in. Turns out… I was built
to stand out. Different isn’t
less. Different is power.
Celebrate differences. 🧩💙

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Believe it...SUCH a winter for bugs. Hope you feel better soon...

Shortcut.

a horse, tire track, oil wells on fire, a hellscape.

From Steve McCurry’s series War, Kuwait, 1991.

www.stevemccurry.com

"At least I won’t fuck up my kid the same way my parents fucked me up,” I say as I fuck it up in some whole new, unforseen different way.

Coming up with new ways to fuck up our kids is like the parent Olympic sport. I don't know of anyone who gets it right 100% of the time.

My top five albums missed from 1001 album project.
1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Neutral Milk Hotel.
2. Lungs. Florence and the Machine.
3. Word Gets Around. The Stereophonics.
4. August and Everything After. Counting Crows.
5. Freedom Fields. Seth Lakeman.

Incantation for Peace & Release I lay down the noise. I unhook the claws of urgency from my ribs. I loosen the tight fist of what-if, of should-have, of never-enough. I call my breath back home. Inhale — I gather myself. Exhale — I release what is not mine. Stress, you have tried to protect me. Thank you. You may rest now. I am not prey. I am not behind. I am not in danger. The earth beneath me is steady. The air around me is kind. My body is allowed to soften. I release the stories that scrape. I release the future rehearsals. I release the invisible battles. Peace is not earned. Peace is remembered. I choose stillness over spiraling. I choose quiet over proving. I choose presence over panic. Let my shoulders fall. Let my jaw unclench. Let my heart return to its natural tempo. What is meant for me will not require my suffering. What is leaving was never meant to stay. I am safe enough for this moment. This moment is enough. And so I breathe. And so I release. And so it is.

Incantation for Peace & Release

I lay down the noise.
I unhook the claws of urgency from my ribs.
I loosen the tight fist of what-if,
of should-have,
of never-enough.
I call my breath back home.
#magick #ritual #poetry

A river in high flood.

Wellies and litter grabbers!

Litterpicking after a flood is always interesting here.
Things from dimensions away often wash up here.

happy bday poet Robert Lowell, b.1917, Boston.

“What we love we are.”

“The dead season when wolves live off the wind.”

“No weekends for the gods now. Wars
flicker, earth licks its open sores,
fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance
assassinations, no advance....

On the 29 Feb 1944, a 40 year old Dutch Jewish woman perished in Auschwitz. Her husband and daughter (16) perished in the camp on the 17 Sep 1943 and son (18) on the 31 Mar 1943. Her name was Hennij de Groot-Cossen

Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

happy bday poet Robert Hass, b.1941, San Francisco.

“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”

Greetings from Kyiv.
I will never tire of praising its beauty.
March 1.
We made it.
We survived this winter.

Text reading There's a pub on the river and a village green with a rusting bandstand.its usually quiet but strange things happen here. The supernatural is as normal to us as the weather. Overlaid on a lino cut print of main street cobblestone road and timbered cottages.

Welcome to Willerby.
A small village in the Midlands of England.

Fifty free stories with original music and art on our village website.

Three stories to start with in the thread below.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

#BlackHistoryMonth2026 26/28

𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔𝒐𝒏 (1922-2021) was a civil rights activist best known for the 'The Cambridge Treaty" of 1963 signed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and other state/local officials as an effort at reconciliation and commitment to change after a riot the month before

Alice Ball graduation photo

Alice Ball, American chemist.The first wmn + the first Af-Am to earn an M.S. in #chemistry, Coll/Univ of Hawaii. Developer of an injectable oil extract = the first successful treatment for Hansen’s disease aka leprosy #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #SciSky #HistSci #BHM #woc

Sounds like a great start to the new (half) term Jane, well done!

By 'changes' I mean 'improves' by the way. For the reasons you list below, there is no clear map to actually improve what children experience. I do recognise that this whole situation is incredibly hard. And I hope I'm wrong.

As ever you have voiced just what I was worrying about - and put it so clearly. I fear that the most likely outcome is that not much actually changes.