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I took a lot of satisfaction in canceling my Amazon Prime membership today. I especially enjoyed the survey where I got to explain my reasons; Amazon has canceled the Washington Post, I am canceling Amazon.

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The Existential Crisis of the Pangolin

#WorldPangolinDay #bsky.art it’s not an artichoke, it’s a pangolin. An increasingly rare, little, ant-eating animal.

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This little animal is being hunted out of existence.

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I heard that today is Pangolin Day

#art “Telling it to the Nuthatches” I guess this could also be political

If you are in the listening area, please support Minnesota Public Radio, or the public radio you can listen to. They are a voice of reason and sanity, and hence a perennial GOP target for elimination.

This low fire earthenware pot was dug up in a Neolithic gravesite in Iran by a French archaeologist. Now it is displayed at the Louvre. I don’t know how or if permission was granted but I’m grateful that its elegant form can be seen and understood as part of our world heritage.

Running Horned Woman is an 8,000 year old petroglyph from a desert cave in Algeria. When Europeans came across her in the 1930’s, they were certain that Africans couldn’t have created her and declared the beautiful petroglyph Egyptian. They called her “the White Lady.”

This was found years ago by someone digging a ditch in the Valley of Mexico. It was lost for many years, as no one saw its value. Perhaps our democracy will be like that, rediscovered and shined up sometime in the future.

When Picasso saw the Hall of the Bulls he said, “We have learned nothing.” I feel that way about this election. History has so much to teach us, but we don’t learn.

I’m a retired teacher, one of my favorite things is art history. I required my students to take sketch notes. One of the ways I’m coping with current events is by following my own directions, looking back in time with curiosity and empathy.