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
"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
"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
"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
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!
February 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
No matter what, nature continues onward. #NaturePhotography
February 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
No matter what, nature continues onward. #NaturePhotography
Birthright Citizenship: Trump's Order To End 14th Amendment Mainstay Already Blocked In Court search.app/RxnQbnQVTcMK...
February 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Birthright Citizenship: Trump's Order To End 14th Amendment Mainstay Already Blocked In Court search.app/RxnQbnQVTcMK...
A Life of One's Own by Joanne Biggs. Fantastic analysis of 9 women writers including Toni Morrison and Sylvia Plath.
January 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
A Life of One's Own by Joanne Biggs. Fantastic analysis of 9 women writers including Toni Morrison and Sylvia Plath.