I'm home making protest art while so many folks I know are marching. I don't know if the art or the marching will bring change, but we do what we must.

This iris was drawn from a photo. It is a miniature dwarf beaded iris, hybridized by David Sindt. He named it "Gay Sunshine," which was also the name of a Berkeley queer rights newspaper. I look forward to telling you more :yellow_heart::purple_heart::white_heart:

@rodkam.bsky.social surely knew he was providing us armor when he gave my class Calvino and Orwell to read & emulate, all those years ago. Unfortunately timeless and timely lessons, but I have been taking real solace in tending my garden, and knowing Orwell tended his, even as circumstances worsen.

My new hobby is looking for furniture on CL, and sometimes I search "Wooden Duck" (for non-Bay Areans, that is a defunct store that had cool stuff). Last night I found this and it was the unhinged laughfest that I needed at that moment -- "very solid duck" is now in the household lexicon: