Suzi Banks Baum

“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”

View overlooking Mott Island Dock, headquarters of Isle Royale NP operations in-season. // Image captured at: 2026-01-23 16:14:21 UTC (about 4 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: -11.75 F | -24.31 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NW at 22.168 mph | 35.67 kph // Humidity: 100%

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Flowers on Paper: Plant Dyes and Book Art Flowers on Paper: Plant Dyes and Book Art will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/flowe...

Summer is my book art season. My studio is not four season friendly-so I literally make books while the sun shines. Join me at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in September for "Flowers on Paper." Xosbb

Hello—Is A River Alive? is published today in the US by @wwnorton.com.
The beautiful jacket of living, writhing rivers is based on art by the great @stanleydonwood.bsky.social.
I feel deeply committed to the rivers, people & ideas in this book—& can’t wait to come to North America with it next week.

Day 85 of the 100 Day Project.
Bloodroot in Akua ink.

Rob Macfarlane : ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’ The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature

I spoke with the brilliant @jonathan-watts.bsky.social about the experience of writing "with" rivers; about freshwater and life and power—and about hope as a discipline.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Suddenly the 100 Day Project feels short! Days 78-82 this week are sets of squares with circular centers removed. It started with a block from 2023 that I didn't like. Carved out the center on a day I only had a few minutes for my project. Thus started the week! I like these mix-n-match sets! Xos

Researching the right lit mag for your work can be exhausting.

Niche market extraordinaire!!

Brilliant idea, @chillsubs.bsky.social!!

www.chillsubs.com/custom-lists...

May | A Second Anniversary Celebration — Does It Have Pockets Dearest Readers, Well here we are two years in. This issue represents some of the best of what we’ve become as a magazine — a place that prizes heart over technicality, a team who prizes the whole dy...

"This issue represents some of the best of what we’ve become as a magazine — a place that prizes heart over technicality, a team who prizes the whole dynamic process of story, an organization who welcomes the messiness of emotion,..."

Second anniversary!!

www.doesithavepockets.com/eddesk/may2025

BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.

Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thanks to @restlessquest.com for capturing our performance and the powerful action in Long Beach on Saturday! #MayDay #handsoff

We celebrate two years of publications with our May issue!! This month I had help with creating three of the graphics.

One: The original butterfly photograph was taken by writer, Maureen Tai and inspired her to write her creative nonfiction, Breathless.

www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/maureen-...

Congratulations!!!! Proud to have my works in Does It Have Pockets!

@suzibanksbaum.bsky.social Thank you for sending your art!!
Made my return home that much more thrilling!

(I'd been keeping my fingers crossed hoping one day during the #100dayproject I'd open my mailbox to something this lovely!!) Art will keep us sane.

Big book month for me. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain comes out next week...

Article from NYTimes about cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts

"Make America Great Again" is making America bereft of important diverse cultural venues.

They turn slightly yellow. But they lend the sweetest lift of flavor.xos

The Art of Arrival I published this in Orion Magazine in 2014, about the environmental activist Jo Anne Garrett of Baker, NV, who would've turned 100 on April 30th. I wanted to pay tribute to her by republishing this (s...

The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.

Singing at Long Beach CA #handsoff #mayday rally today and concert tonight in celebration of Pete Seeger’s Birthday at UU Church of Long Beach! #wearethepower emmasrevolution.com/tickets-may-...

Apple blossoms make exquisite additions to herbal tea. Or freeze them in small ice cubes for glamorous cocktails in July.

Do not mess with librarians. The inner strength required to meticulously care for history's greatest works of literature and then just let total strangers borrow them willy-nilly is Jedi level stuff.

#Booksky

Singing at Long Beach CA #handsoff #mayday rally today and concert tonight in celebration of Pete Seeger’s Birthday at UU Church of Long Beach! #wearethepower emmasrevolution.com/tickets-may-...

Day 68 of the 100 Day Project. I go in phases-this week-doorsteps.

Xosbb

The Berkshire Art Center hosts a collage marathon to prepare work to celebrate #worldcollageday. Lots of cutting and gluing while spring rains fall.

Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep · 12h If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?

This is a very good point. About a very feeble excuse.

Where is your N + 1? If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it's 17? If you're giving a talk explaining your strategy to four people, does it feel like a high-risk event? What if it's 54? How many more people are required before it flips to stressful? Because the last person is just one person. If you're performing in an auditorium, there are still only thirty people you can see from the stage. N + 1 is just 1 more.

Where is your N + 1?

If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it's 17? If you're giving a talk explaining your strategy to four people, does it feel like a high-risk event? What if it's 54? How many more people are required before it flips to stressful? Because…

Bad River Band’s Fight Against Enbridge’s Line 5 Continues The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northern Wisconsin has filed two legal challenges to protect water resources in the Bad River and coastal wetlands. The re-route of Line 5 would go thro...

Not only does #Line5 go through 186 waterways and 101 acres of Lake Superior wetlands, it crosses my Straits. Support the Bad River Ojibwe and the #GreatLakes by getting vocal to #ShutDownLine5 🌊🌊
Too many pipeline spills
#CleanWaterisLife

nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

Day 48 of The 100 Day Project

At this point I have a few aspects of the project I want to accomplish-like print endsheets for books on floral dyed papers.
Suddenly 52 days to go seems short!