So excited to see the work of my husband, Charlie Costello, flourish in the first Midcoast Maine Seed Festival, Saturday April 12th at the Rockport Public Library.

Just needing some beauty: Blue starfish (Linckia laevigata), Indonesia, photo by Grant Thomas | Ocean Image Bank.

Rosemary Wahtola Trommer's poem ...

Signs that we should keep on calling, protesting, demanding honesty and integrity from our representatives. They work for us.

Following Robert Reich: @rbreich.bsky.social

Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits - this one is of Marjora Carter who said: “ . . . the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.”

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Grateful for Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service @mariannebudde

Just logged out of Facebook in protest to Meta's cozy relationship with Trump. So glad to be migrating to Blue Sky.

We need to engage the truth of this tragedy. Coleen O'Connell painted this yesterday and posted it with these words:"I could only see a few pictures of the LA fires and I had to turn away. My heart is broken for all earth's creatures living through this climate hell."

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo: "Circle of Life" by Moises Levy in Guerrero, Mexico, fishermen share the night's catch in an early morning ritual.

Oh and this:

Take a news fast. And then: consume courage. This photo is of suffragettes on their way to Women's Sunday, 21st June 1908 in Britain. We watched the movie Suffragette last night, so much heart and courage in it, the kind we need now.