Rose 🌹

Blueberry this morning

im reading the book "the poison squad" by deborah blum and like, late 19th century american food was terrifying! milk, coffee, candies etc had salycylic acid, lead, and arsenic plus sawdust and bone fragments and literal dust sold as pepper.

Yet again, despite all my rage...I am tired

Time-lapse shows how much Plants actually move throughout the day

Chest aches, deep breathing hurts, it's also a metaphor for the external chaos coexisting within everyone's already stretched ability. Breathe deeply, even with the pain. The release into peace and clarity is worth the initial pain of breathing within the ache.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

If we intend to have a Great Depression Part Deux, could we not have had the decency to bring back art deco?

Birds in (rough) order: black vulture, california quail, american robin, raven, cedar waxwing, house sparrow, parrotlet, hooded crow, budgie, pigeon, cockatiel, conure, magpie, ptarmigan (🗣️AWEBO)

it's a party

Historical black and white photo of Cesar Chavez with farm workers

"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.” #CesarChavez

🎉 hooded crow

Oh my goodness Boromir the cowbird

A three panel comic. In panel 1, there's a torn piece of paper with a definition: Polymorphism: noun. When one species contains two or more types of individuals (morphs) that differ by color or other physical characteristics unrelated to sex, age, locality, or season. In panel 2, there are red-tailed hawk morphs (calurus subspecies): light, dark, and intermediate. Note: these fall on a spectrum. In panel 3, there are red-tailed hawk morphs that I wish existed: blue-footed, red-winged, pileated (with a woodpecker head), bioluminescent, pocket-sized, vulturine (with a bare head) and resplendent (with green quetzal feathers and a very long tail).

Polymorphism: my latest Birdword comic for Cornell Lab.
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/birdwor...

This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

It's a dictatorship. Anyone who can be “othered”, by race, ethnicity, identity, sexuality, gender, proximity to academia, disability… anyone who doesn't fit the desired narrative are vanishing or bearing consequences that many thought unlikely or unheard of. It isn't coming. It's here.

"History has its eyes on you" - Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda)

These songs ring in my thoughts often, but especially now

Dusty haze this morning. Thick blankets over everything. Remnants of yesterday's winds and of the flames 🔥 from miles around. Reality and metaphor collide.

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

Do you hear the people singing the songs of angry men?
We gotta rise up, wise up, eyes up
#LesMiserables
#Hamilton

I feel this underlying current of consistent, quiet rage. It lays just beneath the day to day tasks, beneath the worn and exhausted surface. A flame is lit, waiting for oxygen to start a blaze of resistance.

My great grandmother spent years of her life in a sanitarium for tuberculosis. It's sobering to note that infectious disease prevention is receding instead of progressing.

Mood: Melancholy with sprinkles of hope and trepidation and 2 cups of tenacity

Sunday is such a burrow under a weighted blanket kind of day

International women’s day would be lacking without undead mare’s

Nothing like salt for cleansing. Sometimes that comes in the form of deep guttural weeping followed by an exhausted peace.