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Maynard MA | conservationist & gardener | one polite goblin
I have a joke about Paige Guthrie, but the thought of telling it makes me feel like I'm coming out of my skin.
is this anything
I haven't read this yet, but based solely on the blurb, a conclusion that makes just as much sense is that children with high SOCIAL aptitude flourish in the traditional school environment.
17.04.2025 23:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ahead of its time
16.04.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs the 57th anniversary today of French researcher Michel Gauquelin offering the people of Paris free personal horoscopes β and then sending all 150 respondents the horoscope of Marcel Petiot, Franceβs most notorious mass murderer
16.04.2025 08:55 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1i have written a roughly equal number of poems about love and poems about buses
I discovered LDG when I was severely depressed and didn't really leave the house but needed some kind of human exposure, and it was very soothing. I never attend live b/c of the time zone difference, but the classes come with a recording that you can watch on your own time.
16.04.2025 11:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Related, I LOVE taking art classes with the London Drawing Group-- their classes are pay-what-you-can and accessible to all skill levels, and some of them are FUNKY. They have an upcoming class called "How to Embrace Mistakes."
www.eventbrite.com/o/london-dra...
Another thing that feels like a luxury, though maybe this is just me, is giving myself permission to play with art supplies w/o feeling like I need to make anything, like literally just to play. :)
16.04.2025 11:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0There's good science behind the health benefits of "forest-bathing," so that's an awesome option if you have a safe place to do it! I read a study about how experiences in nature (or "near-nature" like looking at paintings of natural scenes) are a valuable treatment for chronic overstimulation.
16.04.2025 11:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Dream on, Sluggo
15.04.2025 02:03 β π 1126 π 91 π¬ 27 π 20Handsome tan & white pit bull snoozing on a couch in the sunlight
this asshole snoozing it up while I file our taxes πΊ #dogs
14.04.2025 15:24 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0haha, honestly this is mostly important w/ carbonated beverages, coffee is way less abrasive. HOWEVER, it seems that eating cheese can help minimize these effects; compounds in cheese adhere to your dental enamel and form a protective barrier. Which sounds nice but also you have cheese teeth.
14.04.2025 15:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Wooded scene featuring a moss-covered chunk of deadwood
Not to downplay the beauty of nature on its merits, but I do think the wood in the foreground looks like an anthropomorphized rabbit playing a guitar #MaynardMA
13.04.2025 20:54 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is an under-appreciated post.
13.04.2025 20:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0detail of Justinian from Fra Angelico's "The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian" with a lip-biting emoji over Justinian's head
13.04.2025 20:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It really says something about the repression present in american society that I am not constantly being stopped on the street by people who want to tell me how beautiful I am????
13.04.2025 04:23 β π 104 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.
Photographer Lee Miller (left) and Tanja Ramm, breakfast in bed at Leeβs Paris studio, 1931
#womensart #SundayMorning
Define "pampering"
13.04.2025 19:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0this is objectively hot, right? it's not just me
13.04.2025 19:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Thatβs the distinction between Star Wars and Star Trek. In Star Wars the ultimate evil is a tempter figure, itβs Satan, itβs someone whispering look what you can have if you learn to hate. In Star Trek the ultimate evil is a voice impassively telling you to stop caring, it doesnβt matter if you care
13.04.2025 13:31 β π 172 π 11 π¬ 5 π 0I don't disagree, but for your consideration I posit two notes re: brushing your teeth AFTER you drink coffee: (1) minty fresh mouth makes coffee taste gank, and (2) the acidity in coffee temporarily softens your tooth enamel, and brushing during this often 1-hr period can damage your teeth.
13.04.2025 19:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0β¨Plant Spotlightπβ¨: Aristolochia arborea is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala & Mexico, w/ flowers that mimic the appearance & scent of mushrooms πβπ« This attracts fungal gnats that carry pollen from plant to plant, aiding in the pollination of this species πͺ°πΈ #plantappreciationday #NYBGscience
13.04.2025 19:12 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless
12.04.2025 05:13 β π 2059 π 353 π¬ 26 π 14UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt
12.04.2025 05:39 β π 978 π 140 π¬ 0 π 9Toby, the Learned Pig
12.04.2025 12:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pictorial embroidered artwork featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing left with short hair yellow top and smiling, the subject is presented within a decorative circle and with embroidered patterns to the left
Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart
11.04.2025 05:50 β π 2653 π 365 π¬ 0 π 23@walsh.bsky.social this has Andrew Walsh energy
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