The Centre for Useless Splendour

"The 10th Colorful exhibition at Beijing Olympic Museum continues to celebrate women's strength in the arts."
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202603/10/...

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Just Happy Red Pandas 🤗 #TuesdayThoughts

It's a bit of a climb but we can do it! Look just ahead, it's all down hill from here. This red dirt trail covered in tree roots can take us to a place where there is no spin. Where the moss hangs heavy on old tree branches. Where life is simpler somehow, regardless of the terrain. Walking among the giants one remembers how life is meant to be, not without bumps along the way, but with some semblance of order, in the nature of things. Hold my hand, we'll find a haven together.

there are no lies here

#nature #photography #natureheals #moss #I'msickofeverything #daybyday

Three Deodar Cedars as a bonsai group in a dark earth coloured oval pot with moss covered soil surface.

3dars bonsai group of Deodar Cedars.

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Cylindrical clay cylinder, tapered and flat on each end, covered with cuneiform writing. It's a 'toasty' color, yellows and browns, and a bit chipped here and there.

"I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken, with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain." - Nebuchadnezzar II

So says this Babylonian clay cylinder (604-562 BCE), inscribed with cuneiform. 🏺 1/

#MetMuseum 📸 me

One coping technique is gently reframing anxious thoughts

Ask yourself:

• Is this thought definitely true?
• Is there another way to look at this?
• What would I say to a friend feeling this way?

Small shifts in thinking can make a big difference

Anxiety can make our thoughts feel overwhelming and convincing. But not every anxious thought is a fact

Taking a moment to pause and question those thoughts can help create a little distance and bring a different perspective

#mentalhealth

New Nissan LEAF Wins Another Award — From Women This Time - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The new Nissan LEAF has been on a tear, winning award after award after award. It deserves it. The model is a great value-for...

New Nissan LEAF Wins Another Award — From Women This Time

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‘It just keeps getting bigger and better’: Noodle festival returns to Halifax A Halifax noodle festival is inviting residents to discover an array of creative and tasty dishes from March 11 to 17.

‘It just keeps getting bigger and better’: Noodle festival returns to #Halifax #NovaScotia

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

A cafe was put up for sale immediately after its baristas unionized, so they bought it, transitioning it into a worker-owned cooperative.

Five years later, White Electric Coffee Co-op remains open as a democratic workplace, granting its workers a voice in the decisions that shape their daily lives.

The Spiritual Direction of Cats The cats in my life have taught me more about individuation than any textbook. They know who they are and expect me to know who I am. They remind me that they are their own persons, operating from the...

"You and the cat are part of the same luminous web, but only the cat gets it." 😹

A good read from Barbara Brown Taylor

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas where heat severely limits activity. @johnathanwatts

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Old sugar bush trail with tall maples and leaves on the ground

A black white and brown beagle sits on a wooden bench in the woods

Foggy view of the marina where there are ferries but you can’t see them. The ice is melting and has water on top

Inland, it was sunny & 74F/23C so we went to Kennedy Woods, where some of the old sugar bush has already been tapped 🍁 Out here, it’s 54F/12C & we’re socked in with fog. Evening walksies 🐾

I'm sharing my 360⁰

#The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱

#RockinTuesday #ImageAndVerse

Step out of the circle of time and into the circle of Love.

- Rumi

#poetry #rumi #mysticpoetry

Ornamental plum tree in full blossom. Pale pink blooms fill the tree. In background the spire of wooden church.

blossoms
#photography #flowers #spring #vancouverisland #WestCoastKin

👇🏽⚪️‼️ where is the lie ‼️⚪️👇🏽

An Art Nouveau seahorse-shaped staircase banister in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

An Art Nouveau seahorse-shaped staircase banister in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

🇮🇶 The Ceiling of the Basra Museum

🇮🇶 The Ceiling of the Basra Museum

Canada restricts drug boat intel from U.S. navy's Caribbean airstrike operation | CBC News HMCS Yellowknife has just ended its deployment in a U.S.-led anti-drug-smuggling mission in the Caribbean, where American airstrikes on suspected drug boats have killed over 150 people. Canadian offic...

🇨🇦 Good, says Grumpy Cat. 🤫🫡

"The Department of National Defence says it has safeguards in place to prevent intelligence from being shared with elements of the U.S. military that have carried out numerous lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A low angle look at the inside of a tree trunk.

A ground eye look at the inside of a fallen #tree trunk. #ThickTrunkTuesday #Nature #Photography

Upsetting stuff

Rundle
W.J. Philips
1949

Two large shorebirds, the one on the left is all white and the one in upper right has black and white stripes on wings.

Snowy Egret and American Avocet at Emeryville Crescent, San Francisco Bay.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
― Naomi Klein

My word, US soft power is declining so fast and far that even the parody artists don't want to go there anymore.

"However, four of last year’s 10 winners opted to skip the ceremony rather than travel to the US, and the situation has not improved."

This November, change is gonna come. 🗳️

The intricately carved bas-relief facade of the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris

The intricately carved bas-relief facade of the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris

Field and Ploughman and Mill - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14561

Ice floats on blue sky reflected water. Land at the top.

One of those days when you feel as if you’re on another world..no..it’s here..and it’s beautiful. ✨