Jenny

Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beautiful stones
#shoreline #coast #seascape #landscapephotography #bjäre #hovshallar #kattegatt

Macro photograph of a milkweed flower

Milkweed Flower 🦋
#photography
#art
#macro
#flowers

Close photo of frozen water on a window pane, looking like swirling feathers and fronds from a magical wintry kingdom.

Frozen water on the window pane, magic is everywhere. ❄️

The stoic denial was betrayed by her eyes. He groaned, raising a clawed hand to his chest, as the fragile invader inside him halted with one final beat, slowly shattering into 1000 barbed pieces. Now he knew #pain as each illusory shard, like broken glass, cut deeper.
#vss365

#vss365 #hailu #haikulovers #soul

Candles stumble
On the altar of souls
Flowers gone

"Most men live lives of
quiet desperation"
You can hear it drip, drip
dripping away gargling under
the footpath on the way to a
neutral sea

Courage to love or be rejected the bravery to try or fail - pain or ease, isn't it grand we wake each day with the question afresh "do we dare?"

#vss365

He moved to the plateau years ago. There was pain in the way he stood now, as though the wind had been at him too long. That and being that far from the ocean can steal a soul from a man.
#vss365

She took her weekly injection and it made the #pain of loss and heartbreak fade into nothing. Unfortunately, with the injection she also lost the happy memories but it allowed her to continue living. If only she didn't keep repeating the same mistakes...

#vss365 #writing #stories

Your mask is slipping
True emotions on display
The raw #pain bleeds through
#vss365 #haiku #poetry

A black-and-white photograph of a stone arcade in Lisbon. Sunlight cuts across the floor, a bicycle waits near a column, and distant figures stand in the shadows.

Not abandoned.
In the shadows.

#ClassicMono #StreetQuiet #ArchitectureInLight #Lisbon #WhatsNextPhotography #EastCoastKin

Cherry spritz 😏 #oilpainting #art

𝚃𝚞𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚝 𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶ
ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴅᴇᴠɪʟ ᴠɪʟʟᴀ ⚜
𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 ⋆
#AiArtCommunity #AiArt #AiCommunity #MidJourney

Snow silences the world. Time slows down, and staying home becomes a view. ❄️

Snow silences the world.
Time slows down,
and staying home becomes a view. ❄️

#nature #landscape #photo #photos #photographer #Bluesky #Nikon #BlueSkyArt #Lightroom #winter #Art #Oslo #Noorwegen #sky #snow #photo #quietjourney #streetphoto

#StreetArt by #Gripe.artwork in #Paris 13th District 13 Art Fair

daily dose of green in rain ... west coast Canada
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #fog #rain

Half of my Heart…🌺
#BeachLife

Low clouds in the foothills. Tall dark conifers in the foreground, low clouds with treetops exposed above the clouds, rolling hills behind, topped with white clouds and some pale blue sky.

Low clouds in the Cascade foothills January 31. So peaceful. 🤍🕊️

Pastel of Newnham Mill pond, Cambridge, with punts and the Granta pub. Note the ducks swimming through the water lilies in the foreground.
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting

Golden Gate Park is starting to bloom. Sometimes I need to be reminded that beauty exists, despite the cruelty in our world. #uplift #nature #hope

Good night!
#Art #Nature

bright pink puffs of clouds filling the sky

when beautiful hearts break
wide open—

the sky doesn't dim
it opens wide,
holding their emotions

filling it with color—
alive, aching,
bright and luminous

#poetryrevised #photography #beautifulskies #blueskyartshow

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"No one is illegal on stolen land."

- Billie Eilish -

I agree !

💠 🪶 💠

Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 2 is #soul

"Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone."

'Alone', Maya Angelou

#2

YouTube video by Michael Spicer The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy

The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy

Only on YouTube.

Foxes in Love comic, originally published on 29 August 2020 A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green, simply drawn on white background yet very expressive in nature. In this one, Blue fox comes in to see Green fox in the process of chopping something red aggressively. Blue: you shouldn’t chop frozen strawberries like that. Green: I’m okay. Green continues chopping in the same manner while Blue rushes out. Blue: I’ll get you a bandaid. Green: (from out of the frame) I said I’m ok. Blue looks at the medicine cabinet. Blue, thinking: any minute now. Green: (from out of the frame) Ow! Blue: was that a big ow or a small ow?

Maybe it’s okay for just a small ow 😅

@foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from August 2020!

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks at Green over his shoulder as Green looks at a tiny cut on his tail. Green: Oh huh, a tiny cut. Blue: Let me get the wound spray. Green begins to lick the tiny cut, while Blue looks shocked. Green: Nah, it's fine. Blue: Don't lick it!! Blue frowns at Green as Green looks up from the cut. Green: Your own saliva is actually better for your wounds than someone else's. Blue: That doesn't make it good for you! As Blue leaves to get the wound spray, Green calmly continues to lick the wound. Blue: You stop that! I can hear you!

dirty deeds
another institution
bought and souled
#vss365 #senryu #punku

Very true 💰

They'd said it had no provenance. She bought it anyway. Winding it before bed, she listened in the dark.

That tune.

How?

He'd hummed it while cooking, standing over the stove in a threadbare robe. Some objects carry a #soul, her grandmother once told her. She wound it again. And again. #vss365