Celyn Angharad

Cardboard placard from the Glasgow Women’s Library collection covered in adhesive cellophane, bearing the colours of the trans flag (blue, pink and white). It features the slogan 'PROTECT TRANS LIVES' in cut-out black text.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and honour those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. All trans people deserve to live their lives safely with dignity and with joy.

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransDayOfRememberance

Favourite tree looking glorious 🖤❄️

The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean - the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down - who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver

The unconsidered luxury of submerging deep in a hot hot bath

Fractional and promised gift of the Ovitz Family Collection

Agnes Martin, With My Back to the World, 1997

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135578

Yellow notepad and pen on a blue background. Text above reads 'POETRY PAMPHLET SUBMISSIONS OPEN!' Text below reads '1st October - 30th November brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

SUBMISSIONS CALL:

We are open for submissions of poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages).

Email: Include a short biography, brief synopsis, & poetic influences.

Subject Line: Poetry pamphlet Submission - [Name], [Title]

Full details & guidelines: brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Think I might *almost* be at the stage of recovery from lung-rattling flu where I can contemplate reading again 🙏🏻

If you need a little lift this evening, I just heard that National Trust colleagues are installing hedgehog ramps inside cattle grids so if you’re small and prickly and you accidentally go in, you can accelerate out again.

Idea & image c/o the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.

#art #photography #flowers

Obligations 2 By Layli Long Soldier As we embrace resist the future the present the past we work we struggle we begin we fail ​ to understand to find to unbraid to accept to question the grief the grief the grief the grief we shift we wield we bury​ into light as ash across our faces

been thinking of this Layli Long Soldier poem every single day

82 years ago today, Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan, one of the most remarkable novelists of the generation that followed Virginia Woolf, died at her parents' home in Bath of injuries sustained when her flat was bombed during the Blitz. Died—and was utterly forgotten.

A thread.

Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been rediscovered.

that plant thought to have disappeared after romans harvested it to extinction? it’s back, baby! https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

“Anyone who develops deep knowledge of other species by living alongside them for years realizes something both obvious and essential: we are not the only lives that matter.”

- Melanie Challenger, from her brilliant essay Animals in the Room https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/animals-in-the-room/

we used to be a proper country

Abiding by the universal rule, I am now unable to move until he does

Lying back in bed, Bjorni-cat saw his opportunity, jumped up, stretched out on my legs & swiftly fell asleep

Time for the first coffee of the day ~ an aeropress of Forge Roasters' Kropp (a household favourite)