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Kathleen
@kmfullerton.bsky.social
#educator, writer #life, #love, #grief, #environment, #culture and #learning. Greening my grandchildren, #justice advocate, making the most of time left on 🌏
#tagaeilgeagam CELTA English tutor 🇺🇦
https://linktr.ee/kmfullerton
Reposted by Kathleen
💬 Тут у #Balakun ми пропонуємо не #лише індивідуальне навчання англійської — ми також маємо #клуби, де можна практикувати #англійську в невимушеній, веселій або навіть навчальній атмосфері.
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Ukraine #UA #AMA #Україна
Learn more about #volunteering with #Balakun teach #English #CELTA #TEFOL 1 November AMA!
Hello friends
Who wants to do a AMA tomorrow 11/1? Here on @balakunua.bsky.social ?

I'll give you a few days to give me a yes or no!
#Ukraine #UA
Привіт друзі
Хто хотів би зробити пост "Запитай мене про що завгодно" 1 листопада? Пишіть "так" чи "ні"
🤗💙💛💙💛
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#Portland #Oregon #emigration #newbeginning
An homage to Portland, rage against fascists, full circle from ancestors who landed in a city far from home hoping for new beginnings. The wisdom of deep downtown where only the brave and invited thrive.
open.substack.com/pub/ontheope...
Deep Downtown
an homage to Portland
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
#Oregon #WestCoastHealthAlliance
Insurance to cover...
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
#GetICEoutofPortland #Portland #Oregon
Stay safe out there...
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#Oregon #vaccine #WestCoastHealthAlliance
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Emergency meeting today to make RSV vax and others available to all regardless of ACIP decision
West Coast governors issue COVID-19 vaccine guidance after CDC concerns
The guidelines recommend broad access to the COVID-19 vaccine for everyone over 6 months of age, stating that the shot should be available to “all who chose protection.”
www.opb.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#vss365
Summer slips to autumn
on the #pungent breath of basil
rising in the morning's damp air
a brazen sun climbs above the pines, bold on shoulders, with promise
a heated day comes
bees mob purple sage
hummingbirds hover, sip red fuscia
tomatoes blush,
smooth purple globes beckon
time to work
#VSS365 #prompt #PUNGENT
The VSS365 prompt word for Aug 29, '25 is PUNGENT - having a sharp, strong, or biting taste or smell, often unpleasant or overwhelming. "Dude. The leftovers are pungent." Metaphorically, "The crime scene's pungent air of mystery."
August 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Kathleen
The official announcement
August 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Kathleen
🇺🇦 Good morning and Congratulations on the Day of the National Flag Ukraine!

🙏 We remember the heroes who gave their lives in the battle for Ukraine, its independence and the National Flag. Eternal glory and honor to them.
August 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I witness in #abject horror
the denouement of a broken
relationship, #pummeling
of a beating heart by bitter words
breaking a spirit to dust
kicked up to clouds
until the sky bleeds ochre
tears of love lost
forever forgotten what
was meant to be.

#vss365 #prompt #love #grief
#VSS365 #prompt #ABJECT
The word for Aug 17, '25 is ABJECT - extremely bad, degrading, or hopeless, often with a sense of being utterly wretched or humiliating. I use it when a bad state is even worse: abject poverty, abject humiliation, abject terror.
August 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#vss365
To live in the dust
sprinkled with delight
upon every footpath
skipping,
delight a princess with purple paint
sweeping strokes gilded in smiles,
carried on the breath of songs
loud and clear,
paddling in sublime joy
clear water,
under a cloudless summer sky
this #pixie shares with me
August 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#vss365
We sway on the hammock shaded
where tall pines point urgently
to the cerulean sky
birds of prey circling
on the warm updraft.
That one, he says and points.
An osprey, see how the #wings
are shaped like an M?
Crows mob a hawk
chasing thru treetops
we sway in dreams
bound to the earth
#vss365 #prompt #wings
Just 1 more day until you have to fold away your faery wings & return to human life.
But fear not, your next host @bowengreenwood is here to take you on a new adventure.
Thanks for joining in, & do come visit. No pranks, I promise… 😇
XOX
Pixie
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#vss365

What is a garden to a boy
but his kingdom of delights
sit on the old stump
above felled logs,
the fairies home now
sit, patient, in the busy bustle of bees
butterflies flit and float
above dewy greens in dappled light
sit, until the bunny comes
cautious, to find you
your #mystical place
August 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#vss365 #prompt

#Grumpy is such an old man word
round of head, grizzled, jowled, working hands calloused
maybe a little paunch,
a well chewed cigar. Harrumph.
I. Am. Enraged.
The world burns.
Love is lost
ripped limb from limb
a tree ravaged in this storm
roots driven deep
our only hope
survive
#vss365 #prompt #grumpy
Giggle. ‘It was so loud, the neighbours complained, Gabe… It’s true! Let me make you a charm to help… ok, ok, no charm, Mr Grumpy. All because you grew horns that once. Just snore on like a rock gnome with gas, then.’
Your turn – how grumpy can you be?
August 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 #Ukraine #Alaska
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#vss365 #prompt

Have those roses always been that maroon color? she asked
on a sunny afternoon gazing over the #rainbow that is my summer garden.
Always. And fragrant, too. Go over and smell them, I tell her. She #laughs at this absurdity of her mother.
I pinch the sage, basil, inhale
intoxicating
#vss365 #prompt #rainbow
Rainbow travel is how pixies zip long distances quickly - a wild, helter-skelter ride I sometimes take Gabe on. Don’t tell him – giggle – but I add extra pixie dust to make his hair stand on end & fill his feathers with static.
What rainbows will you find today?
August 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
He thought it would be a good #prank to toss a #spider on my head.
He didn't know the grey there are webs left by friends. Bees in the purple sage laughed, butterflies giggled afloat on a breeze. Squirrels pilching seeds beneath the feeder sat up to see the ruckus and another gossamer gift to me.
#vss365 #prompt #spider
You’d think my giant spider best friend Rachel would be scary – with her 6 gleaming eyes, venom dripping jaws, and hairy legs that skitter with unnatural speed. Actually… that does sound terrifying. But honestly, she’s cute.
So weave me some spider fun.
August 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#vss365
I walked thru the front door,
the kitchen to my left
as I kick off my shoes, drop my bag
keys slosh in the abalone
I see cabinets open,
cans and boxes neatly on shelves
peaking at the mayhem
flour handprint dusted bowls, counters.
My sister is here!
We dance, bound
by love & #brownies
#vss365 #prompt #brownie
Sweet, gooey, crumbly, treats – fresh from the oven. Just one bite? Gabe will never notice. Or another. And another. Until… uh-oh. The last brownie. I should save it for Gabe.
Munch.
Oops.
Well… I’ve left him a crumb.
Your turn to bake up some fun.
August 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"Defend your white supremecist culture"... 🧊bullshit
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#vss365 #vssfantasy

They didn't know all the #rules, the cave of hidden dreams except stars, souls of people lost in time. The night sky swept over the pines chasing a crimson sun beyond the mountains. Another constellation gone. They waited at the mouth of the cave to see who would come through.
August 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM