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We are connected with all things. Kindness, above all else, binds us. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

#nature #life #mindfulness #kindness #empathy #calm #peace

"Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you."
~ Saint Francis de Sales

Deer in a Monastery Garden
🎨 Franz Marc (1912)

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

"People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for, you will find it everywhere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evening • Montfoucault Pond
🎨 Camille Pissarro (1875)

Good morning. If you like these photos, please repost them. I'm grateful for that.
#photography #photo #zcreators #nikon
@photos.bsky.art

Here are some more black & white photos.

Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and the printing press have not been invented. Earth is the center of the universe, encircled by heave…

Don't waste your greening life-force – the 12th-century polymath Hildegard of Bingen's enchanted ecology epochs ahead of its time www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/07/h...

Choose love.
Choose peace.
Choose kindness.
Choose to keep searching bookstores, crumbling castles, and dark parts of the forest for portals to other realms, where reading & sleeping are celebrated sports.

And into The Week we go...

"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Autumn Sunlight (1888)
🎨 Theodore Robinson

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The Power of a Thin Skin “To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.”

"To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice."

Wonderful short read: www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/14/j...

Breathe in...

• Wendell Berry •

Loosen the fears that bind you.

"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
~ Carl G. Jung

September (1956)
🎨 René Magritte

Pause a while, and read...

Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to critical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.

- Carl Sagan.

“The clouds may change shape and move, but the sky remains an infinite canvas of possibility.” ― Shree Shambav

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking." ~Andrea Junker

May this get shown
to the right people.

• Mary Oliver •

#animalrights

🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

Imagine standing at the top of a weathered wooden staircase that leads down to the waiting ocean, the air still cool and salted from the night. Sturdy posts and thick ropes frame your view, their dark silhouettes etched against the shimmering water. The sun hovers low on the horizon, spilling a golden path across the calm surface as if inviting you to follow. Wisps of clouds drift outward in delicate streaks, catching the warm blush of dawn before melting into the soft blue of the waking sky. All around you, the world feels still, open, and bathed in gentle radiance.

“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”
– African proverb

#Zanzibar 🇹🇿 #sunrise
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Scape
#BlueSkyArtShow #shine

Jack Saylor — The Sun, The Salt, And The Seaside Sparrows (oil on canvas, c. 2017)

"The meaning is in the waiting."

R.S. Thomas

“As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing, and creativity.”
~ John O’Donohue

Whales Mourn, Birds Show Self-Awareness, Plants Remember—Are Humans Really So Special? Other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens

Nice piece by @katewong.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social on why we humans aren't as unique as some of us like to think... Great examples here from primates, fish, insects, and more. A nice shout-out to my work on animal grief too. #animals #nature #anthropology #evolution 🧪