Olivia Affuso
@oliviaaffuso.bsky.social
Explorer, nature-lover, trail runner, storyteller, writer
“If you have a pig in your backyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden, you can feed yourself and your family, and nobody can push you around.” ---Fannie Lou Hamer #LiberationEcotherapy #Peas #Peanuts #Tubers
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“If you have a pig in your backyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden, you can feed yourself and your family, and nobody can push you around.” ---Fannie Lou Hamer #LiberationEcotherapy #Peas #Peanuts #Tubers
"What is sorrow but tenderness now in this earth-close frame of land and sky falling constantly into horizons of east and west, north and south; what is pain but happiness here amid these green and wordless patterns,--indefinite texture of blade and leaf." -Anne Spencer #LiberationEcotherapy #Nature
July 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"What is sorrow but tenderness now in this earth-close frame of land and sky falling constantly into horizons of east and west, north and south; what is pain but happiness here amid these green and wordless patterns,--indefinite texture of blade and leaf." -Anne Spencer #LiberationEcotherapy #Nature
"Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust." -Audre Lorde #NaturePhotography #Human
July 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust." -Audre Lorde #NaturePhotography #Human
"I don't believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they." -Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants #Nature
May 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"I don't believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they." -Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants #Nature
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes
#NaturePhotography #Ultrarunning #ButDidYouDie #PNW
#NaturePhotography #Ultrarunning #ButDidYouDie #PNW
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes
#NaturePhotography #Ultrarunning #ButDidYouDie #PNW
#NaturePhotography #Ultrarunning #ButDidYouDie #PNW
Being in nature. #NaturePhotography #TinyBouquet
April 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Being in nature. #NaturePhotography #TinyBouquet
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The introvert walks inward, where nothing shouts. A beam of light, a blank page, the hush of wind is enough to feel alive. They live like one listens to a secret, gently and without interrupting the world. #blackandwhitephotography
April 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The introvert walks inward, where nothing shouts. A beam of light, a blank page, the hush of wind is enough to feel alive. They live like one listens to a secret, gently and without interrupting the world. #blackandwhitephotography
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
----audre lorde
#NaturePhotography #4LeafClover #AlwaysLucky
----audre lorde
#NaturePhotography #4LeafClover #AlwaysLucky
March 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
----audre lorde
#NaturePhotography #4LeafClover #AlwaysLucky
----audre lorde
#NaturePhotography #4LeafClover #AlwaysLucky
"You write...to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."
March 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"You write...to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."
"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Zora Neale Hurston #StreetArt #Resist
Zora Neale Hurston #StreetArt #Resist
March 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Zora Neale Hurston #StreetArt #Resist
Zora Neale Hurston #StreetArt #Resist
"If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”-Maya Angelou
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”-Maya Angelou
But we also need literacy! Otherwise, books are mere kindling. #Literacy #KnowledgeIsPower
In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
But we also need literacy! Otherwise, books are mere kindling. #Literacy #KnowledgeIsPower
"every aspect of the American economy has profited from immigrants." ---JFK
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"every aspect of the American economy has profited from immigrants." ---JFK
"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. ---So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
---Maya Angelou #NaturePhotography
---Maya Angelou #NaturePhotography
March 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. ---So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
---Maya Angelou #NaturePhotography
---Maya Angelou #NaturePhotography
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A dose of calm amid the chaos. If you’re feeling exhausted, anxious or lost, allow yourself a moment to pause and come back to your breathing. Slow and steady. I know it may not help much, but even a small amount of calm can soothe the heart. May your evening be peaceful, my friends. 😊
#calm #peace
#calm #peace
March 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." - Wilma Rudolph, Olympic champion sprinter.
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." - Wilma Rudolph, Olympic champion sprinter.
"Without community, there is no liberation." -Audre Lorde
February 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Without community, there is no liberation." -Audre Lorde
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Researching and so re-reading “Back to Slavery” by Du Bois about the fall of Reconstruction, and, just whew.
February 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Researching and so re-reading “Back to Slavery” by Du Bois about the fall of Reconstruction, and, just whew.
February 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn."
---Maya Angelou
#Nature #Photography
---Maya Angelou
#Nature #Photography
February 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn."
---Maya Angelou
#Nature #Photography
---Maya Angelou
#Nature #Photography
Super Bowl Half-time Show Review!
February 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Super Bowl Half-time Show Review!
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This cannot be posted enough!
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This cannot be posted enough!
February 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM