Alison Honeybone

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

Daffodils in flower.

Happy St David’s Day and first day of Spring. I feel we each deserve a badge saying “I survived winter.” xx 😊

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.

The Oar in the Sand He sailed to wherever the sirens were, surviving by lashing himself to the mast. An image of stalwart resistance, or weakness. And the singers mere angels. And heaven only desire, simply the illegal. Sailed into the not-quite world. Or returned home to slay the suitors who had been feasting there for years. What about afterwards? We never talk of that. What if he goes on looking? What if there is no place to go?

Reminded, today, of this late poem by Linda Gregg

We kan daunse yf if plese us
We kan leave thy friendes behinde
For thy friendes daunse not
and yif thei daunse not
Then no friendes thei are of myne
Ich saye, we kan wende wher it plese us,
A place thei shal nevir fynde
And we can act lyke we come from Brocéliande
Leave the real worlde far behinde

A photo of Alice Milliat. She is wearing a white shirt, with a striped button down shirt over it. She has dark hair, pulled back in a bun.

That's a wrap on another Olympics! Women athletes owned these Games: Alysa Liu, Breezy Johnson, Hilary Knight to name a few!

And there's one woman, from 100 years ago, who is the real reason women are here. She was written out of history and buried in an unmarked grave. This is a 🧵 about her!

YouTube video by BBC Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

Ink Radio.
The only place you’ll hear.

4:30 am in Kyiv.
Explosions.
We’re under a ballistic missile attack.

US teacher commentary on edutainment.

I told you it would make a comeback as we saw declining attention.

Scaffolding disguised as support in a really interesting take, because actually he’s right. In too many instances it’s not because the pupils can’t 1/n

Screenshot of text from the linked story.

Hugo of Willerby and the Natural History of Dragons.
By John Macdebs.

Inspired by the events of Where Do Dragons Go from last autumn, John tries to untangle truth from fiction.
willerby.substack.com/p/hugo-of-wi...

Missiles are in our area
Drones over Kyiv at the same time
I can hear explosions
Our charging equipment is still charging (fortunately we still have power), but the noise makes it hard to hear what's happening outside
Still, I prefer to hear

Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.

"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

On this day in 1864, a Czech Jewish woman was born. A widow, on the 4 Apr 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt where she perished on the 6 Sep 1942. Her name was Cecilie Kirschner

Color photograph of Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (2020 Chemistry Nobel, shared with Emmanuelle Charpentier for co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology). She's a professor at UC Berkeley, a pioneer in molecular biology, and one of the most influential scientists alive today. The portrait captures her in a more recent, casual style: shoulder-length silver-gray hair, bright blue eyes, warm smile, wearing small pearl earrings and a textured maroon/reddish-brown zip-up jacket over a lighter top, set against a plain light gray background.

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.

They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.

#WomenInSTEM