Shay
@heart-spark.bsky.social
Logophile 📚📖
Lover of cats and forests 🐈⬛🌳
Lover of cats and forests 🐈⬛🌳
When someone we love has died holidays may remind us that life is forever changed. But the truth is: love never dies. Death changes our relationships, but it doesn't end them. Talk about your loved one. Tell the person you grieve you love them. Feel the quiet power of that love - it’s still there ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
When someone we love has died holidays may remind us that life is forever changed. But the truth is: love never dies. Death changes our relationships, but it doesn't end them. Talk about your loved one. Tell the person you grieve you love them. Feel the quiet power of that love - it’s still there ❤️
The beautiful story of The Deer Mother embodies ancient earth-based wisdom and reverence for the powerful, nurturing female aspect of nature during the solstice. Blessed Yule to all who celebrate! ☀️🦌🕯️
#WinterSolstice #Yule #DeerMother
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVGr...
#WinterSolstice #Yule #DeerMother
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVGr...
The Deer Mother | A Traditional Story for the Winter Solstice adapted by Andrew Anderson
YouTube video by Moon Books Publishing
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The beautiful story of The Deer Mother embodies ancient earth-based wisdom and reverence for the powerful, nurturing female aspect of nature during the solstice. Blessed Yule to all who celebrate! ☀️🦌🕯️
#WinterSolstice #Yule #DeerMother
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVGr...
#WinterSolstice #Yule #DeerMother
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVGr...
I am, admittedly, just a *little* obsessed with cats and their intelligence; but these insights into feline behaviour are fascinating! 😻🥺
„Every cat parent wonders at some point: what does my cat really want from me? In this video, The Acts of Love Your Cat Hopes You’ll Do in Their Lifetime, we reveal the surprising ways cats experience humans and what they secretly hope you’ll give them. „
youtu.be/yJWKLc2BWz8?...
youtu.be/yJWKLc2BWz8?...
The 7 Acts of Love Your Cat Hopes to Receive From You
YouTube video by Feline Fanatics
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December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I am, admittedly, just a *little* obsessed with cats and their intelligence; but these insights into feline behaviour are fascinating! 😻🥺
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Art objects, as it should for so many reasons, and this one is especially relevant right now: “The Gospel just before Christ was executed - that was political. We were always taught: when you’re unsure how to act, ask, ‘What would Christ do?”
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Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids
Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates. At Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus lies with zip-tied wrists in the kind of emergency blankets given ICE detainee...
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Art objects, as it should for so many reasons, and this one is especially relevant right now: “The Gospel just before Christ was executed - that was political. We were always taught: when you’re unsure how to act, ask, ‘What would Christ do?”
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Located spoon from the muffin batter and I don’t mind if I do. Weight loss programme going exceedingly well … 😼🙄
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Located spoon from the muffin batter and I don’t mind if I do. Weight loss programme going exceedingly well … 😼🙄
Devastation upon devastation 💔 We cannot look away 🇵🇸
More than a million people are living in tents in the Gaza Strip, and already with the onset of Storm Byron on Wednesday, hundreds of tents were flooded with garbage and sewage, in what one NGO head called "a catastrophe that was well known in advance."
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-12...
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-12...
'Not a natural disaster': Storm Byron floods Gaza, heightening fears of disease and death
Despite the Israel-Hamas Cease-fire Taking Effect in October, Thousands Still Live in Makeshift Tents With Little Protection From the Rain. Displaced Persons' Camps Are Flooded With Garbage and Sewage...
www.haaretz.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Devastation upon devastation 💔 We cannot look away 🇵🇸
Today marks the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a world in which every one of these human rights are (still) under threat, Bob Dylan's anthem is as relevant today as when he first wrote it. #InternationalHumanRightsDay
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Lyrics) [HD]
YouTube video by Gary Larson
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December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today marks the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a world in which every one of these human rights are (still) under threat, Bob Dylan's anthem is as relevant today as when he first wrote it. #InternationalHumanRightsDay
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Breastfeeding advocates often fall into three broad groups:
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
two panda bears are hugging each other while sitting on the ground .
Alt: A baby panda seems to give its mum a kiss before they cuddle.
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Breastfeeding advocates often fall into three broad groups:
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
This has been a 10 year journey for us. And as happy and relieved as our family are today, there is much work to be done. And I am ready. I bring with me the strength of my ancestors, immigrants themselves; and the belief, as Albertina Sisulu said, that women are powerful builders of community.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This has been a 10 year journey for us. And as happy and relieved as our family are today, there is much work to be done. And I am ready. I bring with me the strength of my ancestors, immigrants themselves; and the belief, as Albertina Sisulu said, that women are powerful builders of community.
Harvest Happiness 🐿️🐦🧡
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Harvest Happiness 🐿️🐦🧡
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This year for Halloween, I’m going to go dressed as someone who’s tired and simply wants some precedented times.
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This year for Halloween, I’m going to go dressed as someone who’s tired and simply wants some precedented times.
Drop something blue from your gallery
July 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Drop something blue from your gallery
#UULent
#family
“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” ~ Chaim Potok
#family
“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” ~ Chaim Potok
April 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#UULent
#sweetness
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”
~ Audre Lorde
📷 #CranioSacralTherapy for babies … the sweetest part of my work 💗
#sweetness
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”
~ Audre Lorde
📷 #CranioSacralTherapy for babies … the sweetest part of my work 💗
April 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#UULent
#sweetness
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”
~ Audre Lorde
📷 #CranioSacralTherapy for babies … the sweetest part of my work 💗
#sweetness
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”
~ Audre Lorde
📷 #CranioSacralTherapy for babies … the sweetest part of my work 💗
#UULent
#surrender
“Surrender to grace.
The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches
the shore.
You are given more help than you will ever know.”
~ Rumi
📹 The Indian Ocean in the late afternoon … KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
#surrender
“Surrender to grace.
The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches
the shore.
You are given more help than you will ever know.”
~ Rumi
📹 The Indian Ocean in the late afternoon … KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
April 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
#UULent
#surrender
“Surrender to grace.
The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches
the shore.
You are given more help than you will ever know.”
~ Rumi
📹 The Indian Ocean in the late afternoon … KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
#surrender
“Surrender to grace.
The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches
the shore.
You are given more help than you will ever know.”
~ Rumi
📹 The Indian Ocean in the late afternoon … KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
#UULent
#resilience
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
~ Maya Angelou
#resilience
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
~ Maya Angelou
April 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#UULent
#resilience
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
~ Maya Angelou
#resilience
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
~ Maya Angelou
#UULent
#commitment
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
📷 Voting queue in the west of Johannesburg, in South Africa’s fifth democratic elections in 2019
#commitment
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
📷 Voting queue in the west of Johannesburg, in South Africa’s fifth democratic elections in 2019
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#UULent
#commitment
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
📷 Voting queue in the west of Johannesburg, in South Africa’s fifth democratic elections in 2019
#commitment
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
📷 Voting queue in the west of Johannesburg, in South Africa’s fifth democratic elections in 2019
#UULent
#relationship
I’ve heard it said that it’s easy to be wise about life when you’re living in a cave, but it’s much harder when you’re in daily relationship with others. That’s so true for me. My greatest challenges and greatest lessons have all come through the ongoing work of relationship.
#relationship
I’ve heard it said that it’s easy to be wise about life when you’re living in a cave, but it’s much harder when you’re in daily relationship with others. That’s so true for me. My greatest challenges and greatest lessons have all come through the ongoing work of relationship.
April 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#UULent
#relationship
I’ve heard it said that it’s easy to be wise about life when you’re living in a cave, but it’s much harder when you’re in daily relationship with others. That’s so true for me. My greatest challenges and greatest lessons have all come through the ongoing work of relationship.
#relationship
I’ve heard it said that it’s easy to be wise about life when you’re living in a cave, but it’s much harder when you’re in daily relationship with others. That’s so true for me. My greatest challenges and greatest lessons have all come through the ongoing work of relationship.
