Shelly L Francis
@shellylfrancis.bsky.social
Founder of Creative Courage Press, author/coach, loves playing with words and my inner artist
For 3 days the water
soaked into the hay,
Transforming the dirt into mud.
Dry ditches flowed with runoff.
Happy blades of grass turned green.
Sun rose, birds sang, even if
all was not right with the world.
~Shelly L Francis, April 2025
#poetry #innerartist
soaked into the hay,
Transforming the dirt into mud.
Dry ditches flowed with runoff.
Happy blades of grass turned green.
Sun rose, birds sang, even if
all was not right with the world.
~Shelly L Francis, April 2025
#poetry #innerartist
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For 3 days the water
soaked into the hay,
Transforming the dirt into mud.
Dry ditches flowed with runoff.
Happy blades of grass turned green.
Sun rose, birds sang, even if
all was not right with the world.
~Shelly L Francis, April 2025
#poetry #innerartist
soaked into the hay,
Transforming the dirt into mud.
Dry ditches flowed with runoff.
Happy blades of grass turned green.
Sun rose, birds sang, even if
all was not right with the world.
~Shelly L Francis, April 2025
#poetry #innerartist
February 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Elon Musk’s Gonna HATE This. Do It Today.
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Elon Musk’s Gonna HATE This. Do It Today.
Dear Humans,
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February 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Elon Musk’s Gonna HATE This. Do It Today.
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Do you pay attention to your dream wisdom?
I dreamed of sitting with a friend talking about our recent surgeries. I showed how much I could bend my wrist, then said, “Oops, I’m not supposed to do that for 2 more days.” I believe we are healing & stronger on the inside than outwardly visible yet.
I dreamed of sitting with a friend talking about our recent surgeries. I showed how much I could bend my wrist, then said, “Oops, I’m not supposed to do that for 2 more days.” I believe we are healing & stronger on the inside than outwardly visible yet.
February 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Do you pay attention to your dream wisdom?
I dreamed of sitting with a friend talking about our recent surgeries. I showed how much I could bend my wrist, then said, “Oops, I’m not supposed to do that for 2 more days.” I believe we are healing & stronger on the inside than outwardly visible yet.
I dreamed of sitting with a friend talking about our recent surgeries. I showed how much I could bend my wrist, then said, “Oops, I’m not supposed to do that for 2 more days.” I believe we are healing & stronger on the inside than outwardly visible yet.
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A must-read by the author of On Tyranny explaining this moment + “recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.”
A must-read by the author of On Tyranny explaining this moment + “recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.”
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A must-read by the author of On Tyranny explaining this moment + “recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.”
A must-read by the author of On Tyranny explaining this moment + “recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.”
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we @friendsofusaid
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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February 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we @friendsofusaid
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
Reposted by Shelly L Francis
THIS is my Sentiment
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
THIS is my Sentiment
“Evil only prevails when we mistake it for the norm. There is so much goodness in the world— all we have to do is remind one another of it, show up for it, and refuse to leave”
—Maria Popova
—Maria Popova
February 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Evil only prevails when we mistake it for the norm. There is so much goodness in the world— all we have to do is remind one another of it, show up for it, and refuse to leave”
—Maria Popova
—Maria Popova
🤗🎂 MAKE A WISH for more resilience and courage as we face the destruction happening now. It’s time for power of the people to do as both subtitles offer: weave joy and meaning into well-being and live & lead with integrity.
February 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🤗🎂 MAKE A WISH for more resilience and courage as we face the destruction happening now. It’s time for power of the people to do as both subtitles offer: weave joy and meaning into well-being and live & lead with integrity.
Calls to your senators and reps in Congress do matter. Thanks to Emily Amick for these helpful tips to make it easier and effective.
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EVERYTHING you need to know about CALLING YOUR REPS
How to be heard in a time of chaos
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February 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Calls to your senators and reps in Congress do matter. Thanks to Emily Amick for these helpful tips to make it easier and effective.
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Time for Citizens to Hit Elon with a Privacy Act Violation
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Time for Citizens to Hit Elon with a Privacy Act Violation
There is a recourse for US citizens thanks to an old law created because of the Watergate Scandal.
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February 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Time for Citizens to Hit Elon with a Privacy Act Violation
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Y'all, we're about 60 minutes away from tonight's mass call with @indivisible.org, @moveon.org, @workingfamilies.org, and more, and we're closing in on 50K people registered. Here's more about what we're going to talk about, what we're going to do this week, and how you can jump in.
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
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February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Y'all, we're about 60 minutes away from tonight's mass call with @indivisible.org, @moveon.org, @workingfamilies.org, and more, and we're closing in on 50K people registered. Here's more about what we're going to talk about, what we're going to do this week, and how you can jump in.
As you grow older,
You will discover that you have two hands,
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others
-Audrey Hepburn
You will discover that you have two hands,
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others
-Audrey Hepburn
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
As you grow older,
You will discover that you have two hands,
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others
-Audrey Hepburn
You will discover that you have two hands,
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others
-Audrey Hepburn
“Creative courage is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. The need for creative courage is in direct proportion to the degree of change the society is undergoing.”
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
January 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Creative courage is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. The need for creative courage is in direct proportion to the degree of change the society is undergoing.”
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
—Buckminster Fuller
The secret of change is to focus your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Dan Millman
—Buckminster Fuller
The secret of change is to focus your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Dan Millman
January 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
—Buckminster Fuller
The secret of change is to focus your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Dan Millman
—Buckminster Fuller
The secret of change is to focus your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Dan Millman
"If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees [...] then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge."
-Rilke
-Rilke
December 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
"If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees [...] then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge."
-Rilke
-Rilke
Befriending life may be about strengthening and supporting life’s movement toward its own wholeness. It may require us to take great risks, to let go, over and over again, until we finally surrender to life’s own dream of itself.
—Rachel Naomi Remen
What are you ready to risk for wholeness?
—Rachel Naomi Remen
What are you ready to risk for wholeness?
December 16, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Befriending life may be about strengthening and supporting life’s movement toward its own wholeness. It may require us to take great risks, to let go, over and over again, until we finally surrender to life’s own dream of itself.
—Rachel Naomi Remen
What are you ready to risk for wholeness?
—Rachel Naomi Remen
What are you ready to risk for wholeness?
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E.B. White
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E.B. White
“The artist cannot and must not take anything for granted, but must drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.” ~James Baldwin
December 7, 2024 at 3:04 PM
“The artist cannot and must not take anything for granted, but must drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.” ~James Baldwin
Last night, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting from flower to flower, flitting from plant to plant. Or is it now that I am a butterfly dreaming I am Chuang-tzu, flitting from sentence to sentence, flitting from word to word?
―Chuang-tzu, 4th Century BCE Taoist philosopher #writers
―Chuang-tzu, 4th Century BCE Taoist philosopher #writers
December 5, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Last night, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting from flower to flower, flitting from plant to plant. Or is it now that I am a butterfly dreaming I am Chuang-tzu, flitting from sentence to sentence, flitting from word to word?
―Chuang-tzu, 4th Century BCE Taoist philosopher #writers
―Chuang-tzu, 4th Century BCE Taoist philosopher #writers
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM