The Centre for Useless Splendour

We are truly blessed, my friend.
I am grateful beyond measure for the privilege,
as I'm sure you are too.
All the best, G.

A conversation with Jack Smith ’94 YouTube video by Harvard Law School

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M8v...

A photo of a geothermal power plant. A tall column of steam rises straight into the sky, lit warm orange at the top by the sunset. The facility sits out in a dry, open landscape—grasses in the foreground, low hills behind.

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
-Oscar Wilde

Goodnight Humans and
be kind to all
🌊🌊

Daubigny's Garden - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14758

Packers Free Agency Chat w/ Mike Wahle!!! YouTube video by Pack-A-Day Podcast

Bonus free agency chat w/ Mike Wahle?! Let's GOOOOO!!!

youtu.be/FUD_PSfq57o

Clouds

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

need my bed
take care of yourselves🌿

Patagonia

Let’s Do This‼️

Today in 432 BC, the Parthenon in Athens Greece 🇬🇷 was consecrated and dedicated to Athena!

Photo: a white 10-week-old retriever pup (Lucy) lays on flat white gnaws stones and gnaws at some wild grass growing out of an overturned power-line insulator next to it. 6 October 2020 Kansas City, Missouri D5600: ƒ/6.3, 1/500, 300mm, ISO250

Photo: a four-year-old white retriever trots across grassy green field with a stick – and not just any stick, but the best stick, the perfect stick – dangling from one side of its mouth. 24 July 2024 Kansas City, Missouri OM-1: ƒ/5, 1/1000, 150mm, ISO320

How it Started (2020) / How It Was Going (2024)
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition
#KansasCity, #Missouri
#DogPictures #DogsOfBluesky #UglyDogs

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 286

Before entering hibernation in the autumn #bumblebee queens build up reserves of fat and glycogen in their bodies.
These queens will lose up to 80% of their fat reserves during #hibernation over the winter period.
#bees

#nature
#science
#insects

Ah, so did I in the military. Sigh. 🤷‍♂️

King Penguins 🐧 We’re Back 😃

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

- Rumi

#poetry #rumi #mysticpoetry

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Grandma Moses
The Burning of Troy in 1862

Palantir's role in the Minab Massacre. Speech at Palantir's London HQ Who killed the schoolgirls in Minab?

substack.com/@heikokhoo/n... Hegseth and trump killed school girls on the first day of their made up war, Hegseth needs to be jailed with trump

the artwork appears to be a mixed media abstract painting with a predominantly blue color palette. It incorporates various textures, possibly including collage elements and glitter. The composition includes: Color and Texture: Layers of blues, from deep indigo to light aqua, with accents of gold, black, and white. There are rough, textured areas and some shimmering elements. Text: Partially obscured text snippets are visible, including words that look like "ecting 'n estup" and "religion". Shapes: Abstract shapes are present, such as a gold-colored form that might suggest a figure or bird in flight, a dark, textured area in the lower left, and a black, patterned shape in the lower right. The overall style is expressive and layered.

"No Established Religion" 11 x 14 mixed media on canvas... now at the #BuoyGallery in #KitteryMaine
#Art #Painting #Mixedmedia #AbstractArt #BlueSkyArt

Gianni Notariann

In a suburban garden with indigenous plantings of green grasses, light coloured stones and rocks

A garden with shrub called Kangaroo Paw plant, stones, rocks and background of rendered fence and trees.

Grateful for all the post I read, the honesty, kindness, compassion and feeling we are one community.

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... And then we return home."
~ Australian Aboriginal proverb

The Evolution of French Noble Women’s Fashion 🇫🇷 AI

I typically spot Winter Wrens bopping around near the ground, but occasionally one pops up to scoot along branches.

“What We Need Every Day”, Storm King Art Center, Newburgh, New York, May 27, 2019, 2:17 PM
#photography
#eastcoastkin
#BlueSkyMonday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJuxtaposition

Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 Good evening from downtown Toronto! There's no snow out there - for a few minutes, anyways...🤞😅
That's a good start! This is a #goodvibes pic...
Springtime...You are welcome! 🏖️👍
Nice to watch the WBC baseball games...
Wishing everyone a stress free night! ☯️🦋

Painting: Wind of Love [a couple wearing white stand together on a rocky beach looking at the ocean. Artist: Olga Tsyhypko Source: https://www.artmajeur.com/lola1711qw/en/artworks/13526582/wind-of-love-couple-love-art-romantic-painting-man-and-woman

On letting go of identity to live more spontaneously.
I was “me” 45 years ago before falling in love.
A life together weaved a “we.”
I can’t think now of “me:”
the best part of me is her;
any choice “I” make is a choice by “us.”
“Me” is now a part of a whole: holism.
It’s like this with everything.

True this, RR.

Our family also know it in reverse:
Just because you're good at something,
doesn't mean it's good for you.
Cheers, Gerrit. 😁

Even the name ‘Lilith Fair’ is a beautiful concept. 💗🎶

Welcome to Marocco #photography #travel #maroko #africa #noAL #canon (c)stdrozdowski72

Pale yellow and gold clouds with some blue sky peeking through. Large gull in flight.

Evening sky several nights ago over San Francisco Bay with Western Gull heading South. Emeryville, California.

#sky #nature #eastcoastkin

Swampy woodland in morning mist

Moss covered tree roots

Trunk of an oak tree reflected in a woodland pond

Tree buds just beginning to burst

A few more images from today's visit to Brandy Hole Copse, Chichester, a beautiful wood and very atmospheric in the mist #trees #nature #Sussex