I love gray skies and rain. And sitting quietly in the company of books and cats.
Joined April 2010
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Snohomish County friends, you can see a glowing gingko at the Everett Arboretum. I haven’t been to see her yet this fall, but she’s spectacular!
If you're in the Pacific Northwest right now, keep an eye out for the Princeton Gold Ginkgo! 🍂 Their upright canopies are glowing in a brilliant, solid golden yellow against the gray skies. Any day now after a crisp frost, those iconic fan-shaped leaves will drop almost all at once, blanketing the sidewalks in pure gold. #PNW #FallFoliage #Ginkgo
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I have a rescue Ragdoll. The talk doesn’t stop when they grow up.
Love our morning chats!
And a good teacher: It’s okay to ask for what you want. (And it’s okay to want.)
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"The disorientation will be harder to adjust to. Most of us have been privileged to live in a world of peace, prosperity, and, above all, stability. We’ve gone to bed without having to wonder whether the traffic lights will work tomorrow. Now, if my sources are correct, we should plan to wake up in Software Beirut, where nothing is broken all the time, but anything might break at any time, and the main skill you need is not being surprised." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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What if putting reality television actors in charge of the federal government was a mistake?
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My friend
(who is optimistic)
says that it’s time
to let our hair down.
My friend
(who is pessimistic)
says it’s very unwise
to let our guard down.
My friends
(oh, my friends)
what matters is that we
do not let each other down.
Embroidery!
Corinne Young, UK textile artist known for her three-dimensional embroidered artworks inspired by flowers, insects and historical artefacts #Womensart #EmbroideryWeek
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Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:
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We've been using Twitter since 2009, and we're only just discovering that there is no 'n' in 'restaurateur.'
Beyond-words grateful for the CC community here.
You’ve created a community of shared kindness, comfort, courage and companionship.
“Thank you” seems too small a phrase to express what’s in my heart.
"At the end of the day, it’s about the people who are by your side when things get hard. It’s about the people who are there when you need them the most. It’s about the people who think of you. It’s about the people who notice. It’s about the people who show up in the smallest but most meaningful ways. It’s about the people who stay, through it all.” ~Charlotte Freeman
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Soof is a style of traditional Kutch embroidery originating in Gujarat, India, reflecting neat geometric designs #WomensArt #EmbroideryWeek
Especially if you’re talking to yourself. 🩵
Before you reply today, take one slow breath. That small pause is where kindness has room to begin.
#mindfulness
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What a day at Cape Disappointment on Sunday! Great light on some photogenic waves, all due to a 20-25 foot swell moving onto the WA coast! #wawx
Everything’s fine.
Companies are perfectly capable of monitoring themselves.
No oversight needed.
I’m sure of it.
/sarcasm
With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control artificial intelligence agents, the tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new AI offerings lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research. to.pbs.org/3XclmQS
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Oh, isn’t this wonderful!
I wish I had thought to do something like this.
In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting), a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart
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