Olivia Affuso

What big eyes you have...👀

“If you have a pig in your backyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden, you can feed yourself and your family, and nobody can push you around.” ---Fannie Lou Hamer #LiberationEcotherapy #Peas #Peanuts #Tubers

"What is sorrow but tenderness now in this earth-close frame of land and sky falling constantly into horizons of east and west, north and south; what is pain but happiness here amid these green and wordless patterns,--indefinite texture of blade and leaf." -Anne Spencer #LiberationEcotherapy #Nature

"Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust." -Audre Lorde #NaturePhotography #Human

"I don't believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they." -Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants #Nature

I have my shoes in strava to log the miles, but I don't get new shoes unless my body says so. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes
#NaturePhotography #Ultrarunning #ButDidYouDie #PNW

Being in nature. #NaturePhotography #TinyBouquet

The introvert walks inward, where nothing shouts. A beam of light, a blank page, the hush of wind is enough to feel alive. They live like one listens to a secret, gently and without interrupting the world. #blackandwhitephotography

Doesn't sound like a trail running thing. 🤔 🏞🏃🏾‍♀️

I am a bookstore junky. 🥴📚

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
----audre lorde
#NaturePhotography #4LeafClover #AlwaysLucky

Mural of James Baldwin the author of this quote.

"You write...to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Zora Neale Hurston #StreetArt #Resist

#DrShirikiKumanyika

"If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”-Maya Angelou

But we also need literacy! Otherwise, books are mere kindling. #Literacy #KnowledgeIsPower

Monument to immigrants in New Orleans

"every aspect of the American economy has profited from immigrants." ---JFK

Lake with mountains in the background

"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. ---So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
---Maya Angelou #NaturePhotography

This looks like a park in Alabama.

A dose of calm amid the chaos. If you’re feeling exhausted, anxious or lost, allow yourself a moment to pause and come back to your breathing. Slow and steady. I know it may not help much, but even a small amount of calm can soothe the heart. May your evening be peaceful, my friends. 😊

#calm #peace

Thank you! 🫶🏾

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Blue ridge mountains NC

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." - Wilma Rudolph, Olympic champion sprinter.

"Without community, there is no liberation." -Audre Lorde

Researching and so re-reading “Back to Slavery” by Du Bois about the fall of Reconstruction, and, just whew.

"Dream a little before you think."
-Toni Morrison
#Nature #Photography

"No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn."
---Maya Angelou
#Nature #Photography

Super Bowl Half-time Show Review!