I’ve been waiting to see what your next focus would be; this is fascinating! Thank you

I know I often make serious comments about your amazing work of shining light on history, bringing out what has been suppressed, but I also really love your playful spirit!!!! Thank you! Boo!!!!

Don’t listen to Bill Gates on environment and climate change. 1) he is no expert, and we shouldn’t assume that a very successful, wealthy person is wise. 2) climate change is part of a complex of threats to Nature and human life. 3) We should wonder why he’s changed his tune on climate risk.

My mother, who went to Louisburg College, would have been so proud to see your patriotic rally!

Yes, and look how the numbers were staggering in so many places Now, as the leaders of #Indivisible say, we must use the fuel of inspiration for organized nonviolent resistance.

Yes, Makayla Venable gave a speech that was stirring, full of faith, compassion and courage.

#NoKings #Staunton
Estimated double the turnout from the last No Kings rally in Staunton, VA - some 2000 patriots, 10.18.25. Inspiring!

#NoKings #Staunton

Of course it’s ok to suggest that VP Harris wasn’t a great candidate. I think that a bald assertion which doesn’t take into account many possible contributing factors, such as the short time frame she had, the rampant misogyny and racism extant in our country, is simplistic

I’m disappointed in such a simplistic statement from you.

Thank you, Dr Bohan

The king of kisses!

When will you premier your new video?! I think I saw a comment on YouTube that someone had seen it already!

Thank you!

Fall bounty
I roasted this beautiful pumpkin to use in a West African stew. The pumpkin came from Jones Community Gardens, a miracle of community effort that helps 70 food-insecure seniors every week. I put in a modest hour volunteer work a week, and am blessed in many ways!

Thank you for sharing this, Rachel. At this moment we need reminders of the power and practice of nonviolence.

The murder if 11 Venezuelans, directly ordered by the President of the United States (per his Secretary of State, who, it appears wants to both distance himself from the grossly illegal decision) is as chilling to me as Trump’s use of the National Guard in our Blue, Black led cities. Seen together!

And now to Anubis and the Underworld?

Excellent

So much more freedom for you! Now, on to Anubis and the Underworld!

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
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It seems to me that Trump’s cabinet is patterned after a Marvel universe movie: vulgarity, pithy one-liners, reliance on surface appearances - these are substituted for state craft backed up by scholarship, devotion to the high ideals of our democracy, heartfelt sophistication

"A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam."

- Martin Luther King, New York, April 1967

This has *long* been true of Israel's racist extermination of Palestinians.

Our whole yard is a garden - no lawn. Mostly native species. It produces such happiness!

Immigrants as blessing

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From This Land is Our Land

Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.

#EarthDay #Resistance #Indivisible

Join us! Postcarding in the park on Earth Day. It’s the 55th Earth Day - the planet and all people need your activism and advocacy.

So many of these native irises bursting forth in the garden now! #Virginia #gardens

#Earthsea is so brilliant. Each book in the series deepens consciousness, painfully and beautifully.