What a wonderful world
monique99.bsky.social
What a wonderful world
@monique99.bsky.social
Trying to focus on the positive. ❤️🌍🕊️🌈☀️🏝️🌺🪇

Science! 🧬🔬🌊🐙🌱🪺🐣🥐🍷📚💡💉📱✈️ 🧠🪐✨

❤️ Kindness ❤️
Heard great things about The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. (Full disclosure: I was on crew team at university so may be a little biased!)
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Also the Maus tales by Art Spiegelman, about the Holocaust
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How about graphically-illustrated history? Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, about growing up in Iran during the revolution. Excellent!
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why I ❤️ Pope Leo, Reason #3:

Leo’s “on a mission from God,” (quote from the film The Blues Brothers)

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Post-protest sunset walk along cliffs near Half Moon Bay CA 🙂
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Mountain View CA shows up yet again!!
🪧🐸📣
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I heard you! Did not feel in South Bay BTW
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Forgetting sign left me hands-free to lend energy 👋 💪 to signs of family friends and former neighbors who came despite mobility issues and ~15 miles distance 🪧
September 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And went back to see Emma, based on Jane Austen but with a few modern twists including breaking the fourth wall—charming and funny!

Extra fun: besides being in a redwood glen—they did a book swap! But since the last weekend, no swapping necessary—just take a book! Picked up the Canterbury Tales ❤️📚
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Final bow at Richard III with a production that flipped Shakespeare’s traditional all-male cast
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Mountain View, California showing up for 17x17K rally on Labor Day along El Camino Real! Forgot my sign but at least had my new tote from #ResistanceSummerSchool
#WeMove2025
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Had a bit of summer night magic with SV Shakespeare. Words by a deceitful king eerily relatable, hundreds of years later:

“… alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself! ….
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me”
(Richard III)
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
August 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So, now it’s turn it off?!? 🧐
But before it was turn it on? 🤷‍♀️

California has one of the most complex water systems in the world. 🤓 It’s actually quite a marvel! 💦 🌾
August 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Recently stumbled across an intriguing exhibit—“Untold Histories / Hidden Truths” by Mildred Howard—at Fort Point National Historic Site in San Francisco: three larger-than-life, red-draped statues of historical slaver owners which were toppled in Golden Gate Park after the murder of George Floyd:
August 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
So what’s the good news out of DC? That violent crimes are at a 30-year low!

(Data from Metropolitan Police as published in NYTimes; gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...)
August 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It was their 30th anniversary! (Been going since about 20th). And since “Pacific Islands” it’s more than Hawaii. Low-key, local, and love it! www.pica-org.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Recharged to face the week thanks to spam musubi, cream-topped shave ice, and aloha spirit at the Bay Area Aloha Festival by the Pacific Islanders Cultural Association. (As close as one can get to the islands from the mainland, literally and figuratively!)
August 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The cafe at the De Young Museum in San Francisco had desserts inspired by the current exhibit of paintings by Wayne Thiebaud. Life is often art! www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
August 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Santa Cruz shows up today for some “Good Trouble!”
July 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Taking a break from news…found a hummingbird nest and perhaps one its recent occupants nearby. (Has “fluffy look so assume it’s a young one.)
June 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Apricots are ripe for picking which means Happy Summer!!
June 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Mountain View, California shows up again!!! The planned 7x7 event (7000 people along 7 miles) had about 3x as many people show up!
#nokings #nokingsday #maddow
June 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Also in blue tones!
June 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Happy Pride Month from San Francisco!
June 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM