Donna Spencer 🔄🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🍉

A bright yellow dandelion in a patch of grass

How can anything this pretty be a weed?
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In Victorian slang, a "Muffin Walloper" was an unmarried woman who liked meeting up with her friends to gossip over tea & cakes. I feel that one in my soul.

Close-up of spring buds on a small redbud branch

My little redbud starting to blossom
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I could not stop myself from flipping it off and that was just a picture

I’m in Tennessee so I’ve modified the bottom right square to read “tires, arena”

Alice Gerrard plays guitar and sings on a small stage between a fiddle and a mandolin player, with a single mic

The incredible Alice Gerrard (91 years old!) kicking off a weekend celebration of women in old-time music at the @wdvx.bsky.social Blue Plate Special
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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

A lacy blue scarf hangs from a doorframe

I’ve done very little lace, but Janina Kallie’s Open Skies scarf was a joy to make #ShowUsYourKnits 🧶

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

A sidewalk in a residential neighborhood with hundreds of pale yellow daffodils blooming beside it

So many daffodils
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Friends, read this thread and then go get this book. It'll break your heart, and as Mary Oliver wrote,

"...by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world."

Full moon with a few clouds in a dark sky

My grammy used to say, “Children, think about me when you see a full moon.”
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I’m glad to see even mainstream media calling this war a war instead of its PR name Operation Epic Fury, which sounds like something my brother and his friends would have come up with playing with their GI Joes.

A tree with a gnarled trunk in a park setting with brick buildings in the background

Lunchtime walk brought me to this gorgeous tree
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Thanks!

A beautiful weekend hosting an old friend—cocktails, dinner, a museum exhibition, a movie, just hanging out.
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Beautiful! What is it? I don’t know much about flowers.

Joy Harjo, dressed in a black shirt and pants, speaks at a microphone with one hand raised

Day 9
Hearing Joy Harjo, exactly the kind of strong, wise voice we need right now
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Day 8
The news of an upcoming new album from the Highwomen
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it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Never forget this: The forces undermining our democracy, rigging our economy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win.

A colorful fused glass panel with trees flowers, and a stream, all embellished with little trinkets and bits of costume jewelry.

Day 7
"The Return of Spring" by the amazing artist (and writer and gardener and thinker and human) Cindy Dubliak.
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An electric fake wood stove glows inside a brick fireplace.

Day 6
A fake wood stove on a cold night
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Loving someone with addiction is such a hard assignment. Arms around you.

Nooooooooo

Stage of the Tennessee Theatre with its ornate proscenium, curtain closed, orchestra in the pit. A screen above the stage reads "Knoxville Opera."

Day 5: Matinee of Knoxville Opera's "The Barber of Seville" at the gorgeous Tennessee Theatre.
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Roving Woman YouTube video by Connie Converse - Topic

Day 4: The music of Connie Converse
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Two cats, a small gray tabby and a larger and older orange, sleep on top of a floor vent.

These goobers sleeping on the heat vent
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When media outlets defensively insist there’s no “evidence” of Trump’s “wrongdoing” in the Epstein matter, they’re misinforming the public, doing a disservice to the journalists uncovering this evidence, and helping Trump warp the meaning of this awful scandal. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-epst...