Poetry is code, and math, heartbeat and emotion. Learning is by its very nature personal, intersectional, and relational. Arts are essential.

Swoon!
This is beauty and the sublime.

You gave me a new idea for this @dewitthenry.bsky.social. YES!

@meghanfitzgerald.bsky.social I think you'll like this one 🥰

This looks wonderful! and, much-needed.

I'll share this original photograph, which I took with a Fujifilm X-Pro camera on the banks of Lake Geneva, back in 2016.

Then I will take the picture down from FB, replacing it with my bluesky address.

What do you find beautiful?

Long story short, BEAUTY has always been a draw for me, and it's not at skin or surface level.

Inherent, intrinsic beauty... what it means to be truly beautiful... this is part of what I'm thinking about right here, right now.

I resisted joining FB for about 10 years before that, in major part because I didn't find the site "beautiful" in its values and operations. I had written a critical piece called "Facing Facebook" for the Providence Journal; I then guest lectured about it at Brown University (circa 2008).

Good to see you here, my friend. :) That smallest of states in in my heart.