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Lee Way
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Pronoun: WE. Visual Artist, text-based; stories between lines.(Typos exist.)
An introvert exploring behind my eyes. In a parallel world Gaia is paradise; we care for each other. Anti-cynic (you want me in your trench.) Trying to be a Saint is a human right
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International Women’s Day.

THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE poems by Marge Piercy.

‘For Strong Women’ expresses the expectations and vulnerabilities women face in our complex world while celebrating bravery and resilience.
The book cover of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE poems by Marge Piercy in muted grays with a moon and curled charcoal colored cat with green eyes FOR STRONG WOMEN A strong woman is a woman who is straining A strong woman is a woman standing on tiptoe and lifting a barbell while trying to sing “Boris Godunov.” A strong woman is a woman at work cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn’t mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose. A strong woman is a woman in whose head a voice is repeating, I told you so, ugly, bad girl, bitch, nag, shrill, witch, ballbuster, nobody will ever love you back, Why aren't you feminine, why aren't you soft, why aren't you quiet, why aren't you dead? A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. She is pushing up on the bottom of a lead coffin lid. She is trying to raise a manhole cover with her head, she is trying to butt her way through a steel wall. Her head hurts. People waiting for the hole to be made say, hurry, you’re so strong. A strong woman is a woman bleeding inside. A strong woman is a woman making herself strong every morning while her teeth loosen and her back throbs. Every baby, a tooth, midwives used to say, and now every battle a scar. A strong woman is a mass of scar tissue that aches when it rains and wounds that bleed when you bump them and memories that get up in the night and pace in boots to and fro. A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail. What comforts her is others loving her equally for the strength and for the weakness from which it issues, lightning from a cloud. Lightning stuns. In rain, the clouds disperse. Only water of connection remains, flowing through us. Strong is what we make each other. Until we are all strong together, a strong woman is a woman strongly afraid.
March 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I’m searching for my anchor. Once again, I read too much news & lost my way. The layers of stories are broke trap doors. In nanoseconds I go from thinking I understand our world to not knowing a single thing.
This new way is void of 1 way but a cloverleaf hwy w/heavy overpasses.
Oh yeah- #caturday
A big Savannah cat sits on a couch piled with blankets, F1 50% wild African serval. Coppery light brown yellow with black almond shape spots and neck stripes and tail rings. A big Savannah cat sits on green marble heated on a radiator, F1 50% wild African serval. Coppery light brown yellow with black almond shape spots and neck stripes and tail rings. A cat head in the foreground is all that’s in focus and appears to be floating in a sea of blur. A big Savannah cat sits on a sofa back in the sun, F1 50% wild African serval. Coppery light brown yellow with black almond shape spots and neck stripes and tail rings.
March 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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They are! I think they are button Dahlias! We grow them from bulbs every summer. Pink purple yellow and white. At first I thought they were too small and now they are my favorite.
Fuchsia purple button dahlias present as a ball of many petals the curl tightly to little points.
March 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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‘Cut everything at once. Don’t worry about it, we can rebuild.’
March 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Will a toad do? Sorry- a Mutual of Omaha moment.
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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My daily emotional path batters me

BE BLISS Ignore the world
LOOK Don’t touch
LOVE Spread hope & beauty
JOKE Elevate pressure
GROW Ask questions
ENGAGE Share opinions
RANT Vent anger
FIGHT Don’t give up
STOP Hope less
ACCEPT The End
PRAY Its a simulation
HIDE Enjoy what’s left
BREATH Make peace
A tumbleweed,crispy dry and beaten, rests in shallow water where it’s half reflection makes it look whole. In the background, patches of watery mud with straw and green grass growing from it, creates a topsy-turvy illusion where land is up and the sky is below; an upside down world.
March 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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MECHANISM 70x70 oil on canvas. 90s
My 1st real painting after 6 years of art school.
The ladder is a powerful symbol; a longing to advance. As a young dreamer I strived to override old beliefs. This art reflects on a postmodern world colliding w/a technology age, questioning desire & promise of ease
A light blue colorfield covers the entire canvas, denoting a heavenly sky. A brown line at the bottom, drawn thinly in the paint, appears as a tightrope slightly bowing from the weight of a mechanism balancing on it, which is a single wheel in motion with abstracted form painted in a cobalt blue color. It’s a cross between a figure bent over, backbreaking, or a banana-type seat swiftly moving and mixing with the blue of the sky. This mechanism carries a heavy mahogany colored ladder that stretches completely across the top of the painting from side to side. The painting’s compositional weight sits solely above the wispy painterly threads of the objects beneath.
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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OMG!!! I just found my purpose in life! I kid not. My hub agreed. I can barely type!
I must work out a pin-post & get on my way to being useful.
I’ve been grappling as to why I’m even on Bluesky.
Now I SEE why I am here.
Hint: the most fun & poetic alt. Finally, I turned a corner. Light does bend!
A dahlia with very spiky petals starting from a powdery yellow center and growing outwards in pink that washout out into a white and folded inward tip. The center of a white dinner plate hibiscus with a bright five-rounded point star in fuchsia. At the core is bubbly textured stamen in a lush creamy color.
March 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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“I Toasted The Angels Who Were Too Busy To Stop.”
54" x 48" oil on canvas. I painted it and kept it.
(PS I can’t believe how much fun using the ALT button is!)
Oil on canvas in a color field of patchy red and browns with a righthand corner in white like a cloud or receding horizon. In the foreground there is a floating checkerboard like a tablecloth with two paw prints in the redness beneath. Most pronounced is a wine glass and three yellow hovering halos.
March 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I am still brainstorming GREEN.
#colorrevolution #green
GREEN: Earth, global, nature, plant and sow, life.
RECYLE GREEN: Recycle these folks.
SAGE/ARMY/OLIVE: veterans color
MINT: refresh
SPRING: Spring Revolution
GRASS: grassroots
FORREST/PINE: seeing through the trees
SEA: across the pond
A color swatch of greens, from mint to army green, illustrating the possible color a new revolution.
March 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I am blowing in the wind trying to stop the idiot wind. Let’s be the wind of change so we aren’t dust in the wind.
Art in black ink washes with a mask on pillows and vines growing through the eyes and scissors piercing through. There is a handheld mirror that’s broken. A shopping bag, perfume bottle, a cupcake, and phone and coffee cup is nearby. A cat who has lost its tongue sits. Text reads: GUARD AGAINST COMPLACENCY
March 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Well. 6 weeks in & I must say the news cycle is stealing our collective zeal by keeping us stuck in a spinning bingo cage bouncing about tooting horns - whether relieving our shock or trying to predict the future- it’s starting to work against us.
I want to see us drop the bait & make a real plan.
Colorful art with a person whose head is in a fishbowl and sports a party hat, spinning like a top upon a soapbox, plugged into the wall, devices, and earbuds and rolling dice, and waiting there. Text: BREAK YOUR ADDICTION TO NONSENSE
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I like:

THE SAGE REVOLUTION
-The color green is nature & life.
-Sage is a veteran’s green, honor & our hope.
-Sage is seasoned wisdom.
-Sage is rooted in American ritual (purification smudging.)
-Sage is spice, representing our tradition of giving thanks.
A color swatch of greens - from mint to mud - that can represent life and empowerment
March 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I’m a sound sleeper & now remembering my dream from last night. As I walked down a busy street everyone had knees w/incisions & sutures - like knee capping. My subconscious gives me a realistic sign: life will be hard, but we must adapt to survive, & as violent wounds heal they can motivate
A large oil on canvas called brick wall. The picture plane is soothing in reds, orange, and yellows but broken up with circles and sun-rays, bricks and paths, bucket and bird shapes, a nest with eggs, lemons and fences.
March 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I’ve been brainstorming about this. The color used is conceptual layered. So far I’ve come up with SAGE. Yes —wisdom, seasoned & spicy, traditional purifying smug, but mainly the color of veterans.
The idea is keeping me busy.
March 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This too. I’m making sure you don’t miss it.
A list of recent tweets from world leaders who confirm support for Ukraine after today’s Oval Office meeting.
February 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I brainstormed a bit. It’s so intense due the color’s layered concepts.
An A-B peek:
Early America, linen, off-white, colorless
Dawn, civil dawn
Dawn’s early light, Sunrise
salmon/coral (choral)
Yellow - gold/golden rod, marigold

Back to green. SAGE
Wisdom, purifying smug, veterans, grounded.
A color chart of varied greens from mint to mud.
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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How I feel.
An old sepia print of a kid in an oversized wrinkled costume with two ears and their arms drawn out as if a mummy in a trance.
February 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Huh! My hub thinks I cheated because Mia provided a hint. Lol
Wordle in four tries
February 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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My hope keeps shifting. It drains from me & I’m left projecting it.
This morning I awoke leaning into our veterans & the truth of mission that they each know in their hearts. I sit longing to witness the force of our veteran’s oath.
Could the answer to
‘What color is our revolution?’ be OLIVE?
A color chart of assorted greens with olive green circled, which is similar to army green
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A video. A distress signal. A call. RESIST.
Screenshot of Resist video
February 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I am happy you are Bluesky because I nixed all the other platforms. Many many hearts for you. Also we miss our Bonnie Parker Posey.
Black sheep dog border collie mix
February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I’m going through my grandmothers travel journals circa 1930. Sharing pics of the Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Today there the glacier barely exists.
Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc in the French Alps shows a river of thick ice Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc in the French Alps shows how very deep the ice mass is Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc in the French Alps show people sitting on the edge of the glacier Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc in the French Alps show people standing on the glacier
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Here are 4 more. I have a total of 6. I can send these to you if you find they’d be useful. I’d prefer that to just sitting in a dark box. (You can scan and get better pics - I’m using iPhone 7.)
1930’s Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc. 1930’s Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc. 1930’s Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc. Tourist walking on ice 1930’s Mer De Glace, Mont Blanc. Tourists on the edge.
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I am going through my grandmothers 1930 travel journals and just found these.
Mer de glacé, Mont Blanc 1930 Mer de glacé, Mont Blanc 1930
February 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM