Laura Grace Weldon

image: row of park benches at night, lit by streetlights text: SOLUTION What is the meaning of kindness? Speak and listen to others from now on as if they had recently died. At the core the seen and unseen worlds are one. Franz Wright

SOLUTION

What is the meaning of kindness?
Speak and listen to others from now on
as if they had recently died.
At the core the seen and unseen worlds are one.

Franz Wright

She's beautiful. I can see where you got it, Darby.

@iamdad.bsky.social

image: lawn full of wildflowers with house in distance words: nothing is more american than opposing a tyrant

image: girl in beam of light looking at her hand text: “Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.” ~Jorge Luis Borges

“Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.”

~Jorge Luis Borges

This drawing by a 7-year-old Iranian girl won first prize in an International "Peaceful Towns" art competition a few years ago. May she, and every person in Iran, be safe from our evil.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

img: plain red photo background words - "All around me I see love swirling, too. Ferocious love. Liberating love. Love that leaves no one alone, and no one behind. Love that refuses siloing, and zero-sum-games of divide and conquer. Love that risks it all. Love that fights to stay open-hearted, tender, soft, here. Love that fights, to be with and for each other." - anna blaedel

image: shooting star text: "The eyes of the future are looking back at us, and they are praying that we might see beyond our own time." Terry Tempest Williams

The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian. We don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same. by Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

#Iran #peace

image: hands tying grasses words : "I think people are feeling this great homesickness for the world we want to live in." robin Wall Kimmerer

YouTube video by Jordan Smart Jordan Smart - Who Would Jesus Bomb LYRIC VIDEO

And you proclaim your Christianity
You proclaim your love of God
You talk of apple pie and mom
Well I’ve just got one question
And I want an answer
Tell me, who would Jesus bomb?

#war

image: vintage artwork of small girl whispering to large bear text: Ladies, I think we're beyond choosing the bear. I think we have to become the bear

A story about a waiting room and where it took me.
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#grief #joy

Where do you sell your gorgeous work?

image: young boy touching tree with reverence words: Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us, but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber & cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. John Muir

Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us, but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber & cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

John Muir

And that each flake of that white stuff is entirely unique. Everything is awesome.

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open too.”

Bill Moyers

#grateful #library

You could make this up, but you don’t need to.

Library copy via Libby!

“Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.”

~Barbara Kingsolver

Side story: I went with a few friends in the peace movement to Dagmar's home (I think not long after she'd been secretly ordained). I recall her explaining her Christmas tree had to be freshly cut so she could safely follow the German tradition of lighting candles on the branches.

gray background poem A Charm Against The Language Of Politics Say over and over the names of things, the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager, Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases, gravestones. At the store, bless each apple by kind: McIntosh, Winesap, Delicious, Jonathan. Enunciate the vegetables and herbs: okra, calendula. Go deeper into the terms of some small landscape: spiders, for example. Then, after a speech on compromising the environment for technology, recite the tough, silky structure of webs: tropical stick, ladder web, mesh web, filmy dome, funnel, trap door. When you have compared the candidates’ slippery platforms, chant the spiders: comb footed, round headed, garden cross, feather legged, ogre faced, black widow. Remember that most short verbs are ethical: hatch, grow, spin, trap, eat. Dig deep, pronounce clearly, pull the words in over your head. Hole up for the duration. ~ Veronica Patterson

It still boggles that this country wouldn't ratify the ERA.

In 2024 alone, a whopping $2.6 BILLION was spent in the presidential election. The integrity test for every single politician in America must be repeal of Citizens United.