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Ariel Lamothe
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Happy Ostara!

#springequinox #ostara
April 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It feels like another lifetime when I come across my children's and my art.

This is from May 30, 2015, when I gave my daughter Leto a lesson on watercolors. Look what we created together, a portrait of Aminah. She was our neighbor when we lived on the West Side.
April 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis.
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This feels like seeing into a past life. This was my office that sat between two 7th grade classrooms. I was one of the special education teachers who moved with students to their Maths, English, Science, and Social Studies classes. I had a 40 student workload.
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a political post.

All I hear from the White House lately is strange and unproductive thinking....
David Lynch - Strange and Unproductive Thinking
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March 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My cookies always come out ginormous!

As big as your head!

One bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man!

Sam:
How many did you eat?

Leto:
Four

#teaandcookies #lordoftherings #lembasbread
March 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Victor Ivanovich Zaretsky, 1988 Ukrainian
March 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you're a paid subscriber, you'll receive exclusive access to recipes and more. My first post has a free view voucher.
Hi, I'm Ariel and I like food.
What I really want to talk about is food, food, and more food. I don't know where I'm going with this, so bear with me as I stumble to my happy place.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Blessed be the goddess of Spring, in all of her guises, and by all of her names, and that spring comes again.

Wishing my family and friends a blessed Ostara!

May this spring equinox help you grow in grace, kindness, and beauty of the spirit.
Sarah Neufeld - Stories
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March 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When I ran my bakery, then later the cafe in Getzville, and after that created baked goods for JAM Parkside: I produced primarily vegan and kosher products. I always offered 3 baked items that were gluten-free (cookies, baked donuts, Turkish simit rings).

I miss the work. It was hard but worth it.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It took 7 months, but the front closet is finally organized!
March 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I can't food prep like I could before my strokes. My knife skills are improving, but using the stove top and oven are still iffy. So I have to come up with creative ways to make the types of food I love safely. My daughter helped me make lamb kofta, and I used them in two separate meals.
March 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"On "Abracadabra" and "Disease," Gaga struggles with a doubled version of herself. As a disabled person, I feel seen."
With ‘Mayhem,’ Lady Gaga brings popstar flair to her disability | Xtra Magazine
On "Abracadabra" and "Disease," Gaga struggles with a doubled version of herself. As a disabled person, I feel seen
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March 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Marigold, enjoying some scritches on this sunny morning. #catsofbluesky
March 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My daughter gave me a haircut today; my first in three years. She removed the bottom 3in of hair damaged by 6 months of immunotherapy infusion treatments followed by 6 months of harsh immunomodulator drugs that wiped my immune system out and caused both of my strokes. My CLL is still in remission.
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In this lecture, Sandi Toksvig, considers how the evolution of information technology has been historically biased against women, continuing that bias to the present day. Most importantly, she asks what might be done about it.
#darwincollege #universityofcambridge

youtu.be/UG6Ier4UC_8?...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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When Dr. Seuss went to war
March 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-speeches-from-trans-dems
Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I miss running my bakery, The Rogue Cellar.

Every season, the menu changed to reflect the traditional flavors of the time of year, showcased as baked items found in other cultures around the world.

Ontbijtkoek is a traditional Dutch spice cake and was one of my favorite breakfast cake recipes.
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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February 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM