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Christina
@zibaldonedipensier.bsky.social
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Teacher; researcher; advocate; theatre director; wife; mom; grandma; committed to doing what I can, where I can, for those who can't...
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Happy Wednesday to you too Freddie! 💙 Beautiful hydrangea!! Is that yours? We are on to fruit here...the cherries are screaming to be picked! I got around to it a few days ago while indulging in the Cab Franc... 😂👍
Cherries ready to be picked. A bowl of cherries and a glass of red wine on a table with gardens in the background.
June 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Good morning Freddie... ☺️☕ I'm so happy the sun has come out for you this morning! ☺️💙 I was taking some photos of my larkspur yesterday and got this visitor... he was enormous! 😂 Thought I'd share with you...
Photo of blue and purple larkspur Photo of giant bumblebee on the blue larkspur
May 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Good morning Freddie... ☺️☕ Thought you might like to see my poppies... They have definitely brought a lovely - much appreciated - shock of color to the garden!! 😂 You can also see the creeping buttercups in the background...
A photo of red/orange Oriental Poppies with yellow buttercups in the background
May 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Good morning Freddie... ☺️ My grapevines are leafing out... Changes the whole look of the garden... 😁👍
photo of garden with an arbor covered in grapevines
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Good morning Freddie... ☺️☕ Again, thank you for the inspiration! Thought you might like to see the explosion of color in one of my beds... (you can see that Basket of Gold)😁
Garden bed of flowers such as tulips, phlox, Basket of Gold, etc.
April 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Don't you just love seeing that?!? 😁 I got this closeup of my Basket of Gold... wherever I was in my garden it just shouted that Spring is here!!! 😂💙🙏
Yellow flowers called Basket of Gold
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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How pretty!! I love the color blend...! This is from my garden last year (might have been the year before) - I didn't get pics before they got wiped out this year by storms and critters... 😆
White and yellow daffodils
April 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I have one too! Not quite a farmhouse, but a bit of a backyard homestead!! 😆
Backyard chicken coop with water pump.
March 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Good morning Brenda and #BreakfastCrew... Happy Thursday!
morning garden with sun shining on the trees and a garden statue...
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Good morning Freddie_Rose... ☺️☕ I was about to reply to you and then ended up taking the grandkids to school! 😂 Your flowers are lovely... 💙 Thought you might appreciate seeing the flowers popping up in my garden... ☺️
Yellow daffodils and a terra cotta pot. Purple hyacinths
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"The same dipshits that want to restore the confederate names to our military bases because "it's our history" are erasing the history of black, brown, and women heroes. That's all you need to know about their bullshit "DEI" arguments. - Fred Hellman
March 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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May I join you after my coffee break Andrea..????? 🙏🤫😂
Champagne glasses filled with Mimosas
March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
March 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Photo of Abraham Lincoln with the quote Democracy is "government of, by and for the people."
February 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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This windflower had one final bloom late last November when everything else had given up for the season.... ☺️
A lone pink and purple windflower bloom
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Got my seedlings started for my herb garden...
Photo of seed starters for my garden
February 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Agreed... A bookshelf with a rolling ladder would be my escape when I need to shut everything that is going on in the world out for a few...!!! 😩😁🙏
Photo of a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.
February 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The Daytona spectacle made me think of this... 👇
"The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease." Marcus Tullius Cicero
February 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I keep this photo of marigolds (next to the curry) from my last garden on my desktop... thank you for reminding me to look at them... ☺️
Photo of my garden marigolds next to the curry.
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Woke up thinking about this... 😔
The Cold Within Six humans trapped by happenstance In bleak and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood Or so the story’s told. Their dying fire in need of logs The first man held his back For of the faces round the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking ‘cross the way Saw one not of his church And couldn’t bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch. The third one sat in tattered clothes. He gave his coat a hitch. Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich? The rich man just sat back and thought Of the wealth he had in store And how to keep what he had earned From the lazy shiftless poor. The black man’s face bespoke revenge As the fire passed from his sight. For all he saw in his stick of wood Was a chance to spite the white. The last man of this forlorn group Did nought except for gain. Giving only to those who gave Was how he played the game. Their logs held tight in death’s still hands Was proof of human sin. They didn’t die from the cold without They died from the cold within. The poem is in public domain, which has been confirmed by Timothy Kinney.
February 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Yes, please....... 🙏💙
"Dream like Martin; Challenge like Rosa; Lead like Obama; Believe like Thurgood; Speak like Frederick; Write like Maya; Inspire like Harriet; Dare like Shirley; Educate like W.E.B."
February 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This is a true leader and a man I choose to think about today...
Photo of MLK with quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A woman is sitting at a table with a glass of water and a straw and says oh for fuck 's sake .
December 24, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Per @drmoore.bsky.social challenge:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20
💙📚

#booksky
Photo of the book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown
December 16, 2024 at 6:39 AM
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Per @drmoore.bsky.social challenge:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19
💙📚

#booksky
Photo of the book "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler
December 15, 2024 at 12:58 AM