Auntie Karen

Buy local.
Shop small businesses. Buy local brands. Rediscover what it was like before billion-dollar corporations muscled out or bought their competitors.

Amazon is not a neutral player.
They know what you buy, what you search for and look at, how you pay, and where you live.
Jeff Bezos has all that information, and he has friends who might be interested in it.
Think about it.

If you are American, I recommend reading the Declaration of Independence.

Large cat with a calm demeanor sitting in a laundry basket, hoping to be carried around the house

Sending you strength, and a prayer for the best outcome. May you have what you need.
(Including pet pics.)

Stay kind. Stay human.

Raindrops are small, but they make up every flood.

YOU MATTER.

I don’t know who needs to see this, but

You are enough. You matter.

I don’t know and I don’t need to know,
but if you are reading this,

it’s you.

Plant vegetables.

A black and white cat looking intently at a black and white Kit-Kat clock on the wall. She’s fascinated by the tail-shaped pendulum. The cat is standing on a chair, with her front feet on the top of the chair back, about a meter (3 feet or so) from the clock. In the background, another cat is watching something in a nearby room.

A small plant with its first flower, growing out of leaf litter. It’s some species of violet. Seedlings of another plant are coming up beside it.

Violets come up where they feel like growing. Their leaves are nice enough to be bedding plants, and the little butterfly-shaped flowers are elegant in their simplicity.
I am always grateful to see them in the springtime.

Batman is not coming.

Plant a vegetable garden. Make friends with your neighbors. Help someone today, even if it’s just picking up that item their toddler just threw out of the grocery cart.

We are all we’ve got, and we are enough.

When you wonder if you’re doing enough, remember that an orchestra needs many musicians playing different instruments.
Every note is important to the work.

You might have been doing the work without giving yourself credit for it. That can happen when you do things simply because they’re the right thing to do.
Doing small things counts. Sometimes you don’t realize that the small things are actually big things.

Check in with the people you care about.
Isolation and a sense of helplessness are control tactics.
Compassion and connection are how we resist.

Go to your local library and read the article “Cyborgs, superhumans, and cranks” in the March 22 2025 edition of The Economist.
Names mentioned in the article include Thiel, Musk, Altman, Bezos, BlackRock, and RFK Jr.

Yesterday I saw a T*sla that had its logo medallions removed and someone had put big adhesive letters across the back, saying

SATURN

Duolingo owl logo altered to a cartoon representation of a dead owl, with x shapes over the eyes and the tongue hanging out of its beak

Duolingo owl logo, altered to have cross-shaped beams of light shining from its eyes, and the beak wide open as if singing “Aaahhhh” - all vaguely suggesting a Christian representation of resurrection

Duo may die but won’t go away. These were a couple weeks apart.

Isn’t that how art works?
You try something and sometimes it’s what you hoped and sometimes it’s something entirely surprising, and maybe worth adding to your mental toolkit… it’s always worth playing with techniques and ideas.

It’s lovely.
Drops of water are so fascinating to look at up close. I love how you’ve captured the way they play with the light.

Small things count.
Small things are actually big things.
Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
You have these beautiful realizations. You’re sharing them… thank you. 🙏
It all counts. It’s all worth fighting for.

Awww! Those two look like my brother-cats Rowan and Winter. They were sweet boys. (Both passed several years ago, after many years of good snuggles.)
Now I’m off to bed with happy memories. 😻

I love that so much! 😍

Oh, I love that!!! ❤️

Little Free Libraries
but for vegetable seeds

I dare you
to buy a packet of seeds - sunflowers maybe,
or how about zucchini?
and
Quick
push one or two into the dirt
whenever you go past a sunny spot outdoors
maybe in front of an office…
a store…
a government building
Anywhere you can sneak a couple seeds into the ground.

And you still look fabulous

Is it bad when the owner of a spacecraft also decides whether the regulator keeps their job?

You keep on writing things that nobody else could write.
My hat is OFF to you.

Check in with your friends. We all need to remind each other that we HAVE each other.

The backside of a Georgia quarter and it has a peach

you ever look at the tail side of a Georgia quarter and think lol tails 🍑🍑