Wow! That's incredible!

Glory be to God for dappled things ♥️

What a great crop!

Donate to Support a mom and daughters after father's deportation, organized by Aurora Santiago Lopez Dear Community and Friends, We are asking for your suppor… Aurora Santiago Lopez needs your support for Support a mom and daughters after father's deportation

The young woman on the right goes to school with my daughter. Her father was snatched by ICE when he was picking up tools for work at Home Depot. If you've got a few extra bucks to help out this dear family in this moment of crisis, it would be much appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

My husband works on a Home-Based Primary Care team. They travel to the homes of house-bound veterans, providing care to veterans plus training to caregivers so veterans can stay in their homes longer. It's a great program.

This is Doğukan Günaydin A 28 year old business student at the University of Minnesota who has been arrested for no clear reason

No one seems 100% sure why this international student was arrested... including the people who arrested him.

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That was such an interesting post from a sociological point of view. There's something about how the quality of discourse decreases as the number of people increases that reminds me of a "Reading the Bible while Hebrew" post about the tower of Babel- and how empires hurt people.

Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...

Hi All, they are trying to eliminate NEPA and start selling off our public lands. We have 30 days to comment. Please go to this link and add your comment in opposition. You can do so anonymously.

NEPA Proposed Dissolution

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

A young Iranian woman with dark hair and small braids with pink hair bands. Her earrings and her necklace all have crosses on them.

27-year-old Artemis Ghasemzadeh was an English teacher in her home country of Iran. She met some Christians in the underground church and became a Christian. Fearing for her life under Iran's extremist religious laws, she ran for the US, only to be picked up by US immigration authorities. 1/8

Oh that's perfect

Myra Donnelley on Substack “Extinction burst”.

Also learning about "Extinction Burst" substack.com/@maddoggerel...

This is from Monday but still warms my heart

As a former member of Mars Hill Seattle, I can testify that this is accurate. Learning to believe God actually might like me (and that I don't know everything) has been so good.

Halibut is the best if you can find it. Tender, buttery and easy. Salmon is easier to eat if it's blackened-style with Cajun spices, or rubbed with oil & Tom Douglas's salmon rub (rub with love) and cooked under the broiler, or as a salmon burger. Salmon salad can be made with any leftovers

Orange tabby curled up to sleep with his legs out straight, making the letter "c" with his body

C is for cat

Angela says, "Pay him whatever he wants."

Theories of Atonement as GIFs from The Office -- a thread.

1: Ransom Theory (Origen) -- Jesus's death was a ransom given to the devil in exchange for humanity's freedom

That looks amazing! I'm excited to get it for my kids.

I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...

"Why use tax dollars to fund public health research when, in the event of a pandemic, I can just spend millions building myself a hermetically sealed chamber?"

Oh no! We've been entertained by the screensaver as well. Did you know you can download a Roku remote app to your phone?

Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why. Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

Thank you for bringing beauty to my feed!

YouTube video by Coldplay Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)

If you haven't seen the Coldplay/Dick Van Dyke video yet, it's really lovely:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

Orange tabby with white front sitting on a drawing of a cat

Tiger sitting on his portrait

For victory!

Today’s #warcoffee
with a breath of nature

(warcoffee is every coffee I have in Ukraine since February 24, 2022)

Hmmmmm

The crow as messenger CAW CAW

Everyone has a crow story and this week over at substack I share one of mine!

And also some thoughts about crows, some crow news, a couple crow books I've read and there might even be some poetry about crows.

If you don't like crows it will be a good hate read.

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Murder in Mississippi and Art as Social Protest Plus! A poem from my daughter Allie

Ivan Morchuk, Ukrainian artist who remained true to his vision and showed the world his Ukraine, not bowing down before the KGB. It reminds me of the power of art to protest and show us who we are. Thank you for sharing.
This article talks about the power of art -
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Thank you for sharing. I read & loved your poems. My heart was touched by the last poem, I felt like I was seeing Poland through your eyes. Every word had weight.

I watched Frozen 2 last night (again) and as Olaf is flurrying away, he says, "I know the one thing that doesn't change! It's love." And I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 1:13- " and now these three remain: faith hope and love. And the greatest of these is love." I am leaning into love.

A year ago this week Three young men were shot by a random stranger in Vermont

A year ago this week one of my daughter's college aged friends was shot by a stranger on the street in Vermont, along with two of his friends.

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