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Laura Christine Ó Donnell
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Earth + Democracy defender, PhD psychology, physio. Healer, researcher, writer, poet, editor, educator. Truth, justice, compassion—not just for humans. Consciousness, integrative knowing. Huge fan of education, nature, sciences, arts. Global citizen.
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Laura Christine Ó Donnell @lcodonnell.bsky.social · Jun 1
No to inhumanity, despots. 💙
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"Truly Grateful" by Beverly McIver (American) - Oil on canvas / 2011 - North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh) #WomenInArt #BeverlyMcIver #McIver #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #NorthCarolinaMuseumofArt #art #ArtText #BlueskyArt #SelfPortrait #gratitude #BlackArt #ContemporaryArt #BlackArtists
Painted in 2011, this self-portrait comes after years in which American artist Beverly McIver navigated profound loss and new responsibility following her mother’s death and her promise to care for her sister Renee, who has a developmental disability. In earlier works, Beverly often centered her mother and sister, but here she turns the gaze gently onto herself, capturing a moment of hard-won calm. She depicts herself as a mature Black woman from the shoulders up, set low in the frame against a flat orange-gold background. Her short black natural hair forms an uneven halo of dark curls, painted in thick strokes. She bows her head and lowers her eyes, so we see mostly the planes of her forehead, nose, and cheeks, modeled in patches of browns, gold, green, and rose. Her full lips, a deep brick red, press gently together. A light blue scarf wraps around her neck and spills to the right, its rough brushmarks suggesting soft folds of fabric. She wears a dark coat over a pale top. Soft, diffuse light creates gentle shifts of color that register emotion more than strict anatomy. The warm background recalls religious icons with gold tones, suggesting a quiet, almost devotional gratitude. Thick, expressive strokes refuse to smooth away age, fatigue, or complex feeling, aligning with McIver’s belief that “all of my portraits are self-portraits” and should tell the truth about a life. Created when she was an acclaimed North Carolina artist and teacher, "Truly Grateful" honors the resilience of a Black woman who has come through grief and caregiving and can finally pause, eyes closed, to acknowledge that ... despite everything ... life is still good.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Enrique Granados / J.-F. Heisser.
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Escenas románticas: No. 6, Epílogo
YouTube video by Jean-François Heisser - Topic
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November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"What we need as a society right now is more Renaissance people. More people who are able to think through multiple discourses."

"[W]here philosophical questions inform scientific questions, and scientific knowledge affects how we understand art and society."
rbtownsend.bsky.social Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 4d
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Now close the windows
and hush all the fields:
If the trees must,
let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now,
and if there is,
Be it my loss.

Robert Frost, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #WindowsOnWednesday #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
View through a three-panel wide window of a field, bare trees and water beyond. Ireland.
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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You may have more in common with your golden retriever than you think... New research with 1,300 golden retrievers found that they appear to share a genetic basis with humans for at least some behaviour www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
You may have more in common with golden retrievers than you think
New research with 1,300 golden retrievers found that they appear to share a genetic basis with humans for at least some behaviour
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November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933)
A Snowy Monday.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Do you ne’er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne’er think who made them, & who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e’er caught!

H.W. Longfellow (1842)

#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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“We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.”

~ Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)

#Art, Savant Designs.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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This point needs to be made and frequently.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Lionel Walden (1862–1933)
Cardiff Docks, 1894.
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

-Rachel Carson
A single tree near a path on a hill.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I do believe this.
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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We dance round in a ring
and suppose,
But the Secret sits
in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Spirituality #Poetry #Prayer #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #Temple #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Devotees in vibrant traditional Indian clothing pay obeisance with folded hands before the sacred flame at Arunachaleswar Temple, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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It's all about the colours...

#Photography #Woodland #Trees #TreePosting #Nature #Saturday #Autumn #Fall #Nottinghamshire #Tuesday #OMSystem
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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High water...

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Minimal #HighKey #Water #Flood #Colwick #Nottingham #OMSystem
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Corrupted and compromised, they are.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Himes: "This shows Steve Witkoff almost literally sitting side with the Russians on this ... it's unimaginable to consider the fact that you would propose a peace deal that the Ukrainians didn't even know about."
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee (1983). Photo by Nathan Benn.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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#MelvilleMonday

"Oh, give me again the rover's life—the joy, the thrill, the whirl! Let me feel thee again, old sea! let me leap into thy saddle once more. […] Let me snuff thee up, sea-breeze! and whinny in thy spray."

- Herman Melville, White-Jacket (Ch. XIX, The Jacket Aloft)
Artwork: William Bradford, Whaler off the Vineyard—Outward Bound, 1859, oil on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain. From Melville's White-Jacket (Ch. XIX, The Jacket Aloft). The entire passage: "Oh, give me again the rover's life—the joy, the thrill, the whirl! Let me feel thee again, old sea! let me leap into thy saddle once more. I am sick of these terra firma toils and cares; sick of the dust and reek of towns. Let me hear the clatter of hailstones on icebergs, and not the dull tramp of these plodders, plodding their dull way from their cradles to their graves. Let me snuff thee up, sea-breeze! and whinny in thy spray."
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM