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Laura Christine Ó Donnell
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Earth+Democracy defender, PhD psychology, physiotherapy. Healer, researcher, writer, poet, editor, educator. Truth, justice, compassion—not just for humans. Consciousness, integrative knowing. Huge fan of education, nature, sciences, arts. Global citizen.
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Laura Christine Ó Donnell @lcodonnell.bsky.social · Jun 1
No to inhumanity, despots. 💙
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From St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. ✨✨⭐✨✨
Auld Lang Syne – St Martin's Voices | Classic FM
YouTube video by Classic FM
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January 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨🤍✨
BBC SSO plays Auld Lang Syne (arr. Alastair Savage) | BBC Proms Korea 2024
YouTube video by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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January 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Be merry, be merry.
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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☘️✨ Also, Athbhliain Shona! ✨⭐☘️✨

After a difficult year, wishing everyone respite, joy, good health, love, and peace in the New Year. 🤍✨

May this year bring more kindness and compassion, and may Life's arc bend toward goodness, sanity, equity, and justice.
December 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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It's the fourth day of Christmas ⭐

🌲✨ Beannachtaí na Nollaig ort! ✨🕯️✨
✨🌝 (Christmas blessings on you) 🔔🎄

Happy Christmastide & Yuletide to all lighting the candles or Yule log and trolling the ancient Yuletide carol 🔥

Love & peace for all festivities and to all who do not or cannot celebrate ⭐
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Sweet cheers of joy for Boxing Day ✨🌲🦊✨
The Awakening of the Trees • Elaine Bayley • date unknown
December 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Happy Kwanzaa to everyone lighting the Kinara and honoring the Nguzo Saba this week. ✨✨

Continued happiness for all seasonal celebrations. Honoring the northern hemisphere in Winter and the southern hemisphere in Summer. 🌚🌞

Earth Mother's ebb and flow is known simultaneously. Peace to all beings 🌍
December 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5d
Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) has become a symbol of Christmas and Ukraine’s culture all around the world.

📹 In Ukraine/Facebook
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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✨🤍🇺🇦✨🕊️🇫🇷✨🇬🇧✨🇩🇪✨
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7d
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Merry Christmas 🕯️🎄🕯️

"It is not sunlight, not moonlight,
But a separate shining...
Joy lives behind people's eyes."
- Hilda Conkling (c. 1920)

Carl Friedrich Moritz Müller. Christmas in the Cottage (1848).
December 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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✨🎄🕯️✨🕊️🌲
The Holly And The Ivy
YouTube video by Westminster Abbey Choir - Topic
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December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🕯️

A warm buoyant glow
Will a kind gesture imbue;
Like Aurora in the East,
A heart kindled anew.

Arrival of the Christmas Tree, by Hans Andersen Brendekilde (c. 1900).
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Feliz Navidad
and Thank You ❤️
to all the
Farm Workers.

You make our lives better.
Hopefully someday we will live in a world that makes lives better for essential workers.
🍅🥬🌽🧅🥕🥦🍆

Muchas Gracias y
Feliz Navidad ❤️
Farm workers harvesting crops in fields by mountain range
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Oh, how sweet and heartwarming. I am thinking about calling in this year...
opposablethumbs.bsky.social Dave Haldiman @opposablethumbs.bsky.social · 7d
"(M)ore than 1,000 Canadian and American military personnel, Defense Dept. civilian workers, and local participants near Colorado Springs, where NORAD is headquartered, volunteer to answer the more than 100,000 phone calls that come from children around the world on Christmas Eve."
#Christmas
December 23, 2025
On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Gorriona de invierno, Passer domesticus #Aves #Birds 🪶
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A contemporary Japanese painting titled "Black Cat and Blue Morning Glory" by artist Taguchi Yuka.
Japanese painting titled "Black Cat and Blue Morning Glory"
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Peace on Earth
&
Goodwill amongst All Peoples

🌟Wishing you the happiest of Happy Holidays!🌟
The colourful Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove (24 cm) inhabits the rainforests and mangroves of northern and north-east Australia. The fruit diet of all the Fruit-Doves plays an important role in seed dispersal and the maintenance of diversity in tropical forests. Image Credit: Australia’s Wonderful Birds.
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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As the earth grows colder, the winds faster, the fire smaller, the rains harder—let the light shine and the warmth return again as the sun journeys back to us.

Happy Yule!
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Reindeer in Sweden - Kevin Rushby, The Guardian.
#winter #Sweden
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Light up your life...

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Street #Urban #StreetPhotography #Hull #Yorkshire #Christmas #Tuesday
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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"Medea" by Evelyn De Morgan (British) - Oil on canvas / 1889 - Williamson Art Gallery and Museum (Birkenhead, England) #WomenInArt #EvelynDeMorgan #DeMorgan #WilliamsonArtGallery #GreekMythology #Medea #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #BlueskyArt #PreRaphaelite #WomenPaintingWomen
British artist Evelyn De Morgan paints Medea not as spectacle but as suspended decision. A young adult woman with fair skin and auburn, pearl-threaded hair steps toward us through a marble palace. She is barefoot on a dark blue-and-cream tiled floor. Her long rose-mauve gown pools and folds in heavy, silky pleats. A pale silver lining flashes where the sleeves and hem turn back. Her head tilts slightly, eyes lowered and distant, as if listening inward rather than meeting our gaze. In her right hand (our left), she carries a translucent violet glass flask, the liquid inside a dark red. Around her, an arched corridor recedes in cool green and lapis ornament while carved friezes and shadowed statues line the walls. White doves perch and scatter with one on a ledge and several on the floor for bright notes of life. The vial marks the moment after Jason abandons her as vengeance is reduced to something that fits her hand, while her unarmored body carries moral weight. The palace is gorgeous yet confining as vaults press down, corridors narrow, and the chessboard floor turns her path into calculation. The doves sharpen the tension like emblems of peace or fidelity, they move freely where she cannot, while she pauses between thought and irreversible act. Painted in 1889, "Medea" belongs to De Morgan’s gallery of mythic women used to question power, betrayal, and the cost of being labeled monstrous. She had married William De Morgan in 1887 and moved in circles that linked art to social conscience, so interior feeling becomes argument. Medea’s downturned gaze can be interpreted as grief, rage, or exhaustion. The painting refuses to decide which emotion “counts.” It asks what abandonment does to a person when every door is decorative and every choice is judged. De Morgan once wrote, “Art is eternal, but life is short.” It is a credo that fits this scene because the myth is ancient, but the portrait of precarious agency still feels current.
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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"Painted in 1963, the year Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun (إنجي أفلاطون) was released from four years of political imprisonment, this work is like a quiet insistence on personhood."
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“Portrait” by إنجي أفلاطون / Inji Efflatoun (Egyptian) - Oil on board / 1963 - Inji Efflatoun Museum (Cairo, Egypt) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #InjiEfflatoun #إنجيأفلاطون #Efflatoun #InjiEfflatounMuseum #EgyptianArtist #EgyptianArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #WomenPaintingWomen
Painted in 1963, the year Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun (إنجي أفلاطون) was released from four years of political imprisonment, this work is like a quiet insistence on personhood. Efflatoun’s modernist simplifications (bold outlines, flattened color fields, and a nearly symmetrical composition) do not erase individuality, but concentrates it. It’s a close, emotional portrait of a young woman (perhaps a fellow prisoner or a mother in distress) facing us head-on, her shoulders cropped so the focus stays on her eyes and the wrap around her head. A loosely wound headscarf of cream, lilac, and rust-red frames her face in thick, visible strokes, like fabric painted as weather. Her skin is built from warm tans and yellow-green planes, with deeper brown shading at the temples and along the nose. Wide empathetic brown eyes, outlined in black, look straight out with a steady, unsmiling appeal. Dark, arched brows anchor her expression of concern. Small blue-green, marks appear at the center of her forehead and in short vertical strokes on her chin. Two dark braids of hair slip forward at either side of her neck. Behind her, a smoky blue background presses in, making the face and scarf feel illuminated, intimate, and unavoidably present. The sitter’s gaze refuses the sentimental softness often demanded of women’s portraits. The scarf functions as both shelter and stage with its swirling reds and whites echo the pulse of the brush, while the cool blue backdrop suggests pressure, distance, or containment. The facial markings likely signal belonging and self-definition common in Egypt and across parts of the Middle East/North Africa and are reminders that identity can be carried on the skin even when circumstance tries to control the body. In the context of Efflatoun’s lifelong feminism and commitment to representing ordinary women’s lives, the portrait can be felt as solidarity rather than spectacle for a dignified presence asking us to hold attention, not consume it.
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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#Edinburgh #BotanicGardens #ChristmasLights A few years ago we walked through this incredible light tunnel at the Botanics. Spectacular!
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM