Julie T in WNC

An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers Rivers are connectors. The rivers feeding into Lake Ontario and then the St. Lawrence connect me, for example, with Audra and her homeland. My people are called Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg because we …

An Indigenous Theory of Water: @biidaasamose.bsky.social on Rivers as Teachers

Seen today: Chickadee fledglings learning to fly and recover. #ncbirds #doyouhearbirds

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Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.

Between science and magic – how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible www.themarginalian.org/2021/05/07/s...

#mericawtf as Wilco says " you have to learn how to die if you want to be alive" #avlhipsterdrinks

Save the Endangered Species Act Most people remember the first time they saw a bald eagle in the wild.  From their unmistakable white feathered head to their mighty beak and piercing eyes, it’s a bird with Hollywood caliber charisma...

This Endangered Species Day is about more than the species making the South great, it’s about the Endangered Species Act. This powerful law saves from extinction 99% of the species it protects.

Now it’s the ESA’s turn to be protected: www.selc.org/news/save-th...

a yellow book cover on a blue background No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Releasing 5/13, available for pre-order now wherever good books are sold (Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day!)

(or you can request a copy from your local public library!)

Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means “It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Emerson died on this day in 1882, leaving his abiding wisdom on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means

Happy 77th birthday to Kate Pierson, one of the lead singer and founding member of the B-52s

The B52s - Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored

#punk #punkrock #newwave #katepierson #theb52s #history #otd

What It Means to Tell the Truth About America And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

-James Baldwin quoted in The Atlantic by Clint Smith, author of How The Word Is Passed, is indispensable, writing here on the National Museum of African-American History and Culture:

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Just wow

Mar 31 @ 6:30 PM via Zoom

"Massumi’s theorizations of the treacherous times we inhabit offers both a compelling account of new machines of rule and desperately needed glimmers of the anti-fascist forms of life that can and must oppose them.” - Jack Halberstam

Register: bit.ly/personalityo...

Now Is the Time for Big Ideas A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to…

Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika and Astra Taylor on the corporate coup—and how progressives can win by organizing to capture the groundswell of public opinion.

Seamus Heaney’s Advice on Life “The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”

The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge."

Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life

The Dalai Lama’s Ethical and Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation, Illustrated “We are all interconnected in the universe, and from this, universal responsibility arises… Everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world.”

The Dalai Lama's ethical and ecological philosophy for the next generation, illustrated

I believe in "the passion of the possible" #thankskierkegaard

#doyouhearbirds

This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

I think I went for Sheryl Crow, but then Wilco straightened me out

Love this David Bowie quote + encouragement at the public library in Cashier, NC! #davidbowiefanclub

💗Keep on Knocking💗

And now #47 is asking for the elimination of IMLS! I urge you to use the 5 Calls app to call your senators + representative to ask them to support funding for IMLS. #saveourmuseums #saveourlibraries #saveimls #useyourvoice #useyourvoicepersist

It's Spring!

It's #troutlilytime!

Did we ever talk about Wilco? I first saw them open for Sheryl Crow on the Being There tour! I'm seeing them in AVL in May!!!

We invite you to join us next Tuesday, 03/25, as we gather with our partners at the NC General Assembly in Raleigh from 9 am-2 pm.

Everyone who attends will be put in a group to speak with legislators here in NC.

Register here: https://bit.ly/rainbowrepro25

ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...

The Trump administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC Division of HIV Prevention, cutting $700 million that should be used to prevent HIV infections and control HIV the HIV epidemic. Such cuts would have horrific consequences for the health of Americans. aidsunited.org/action/polic...

45 Years Ago

Exciting days in Detroit ⚡
The Clash, Iggy Pop, and the Ramones, three concerts in four days at the Motor City Roller Rink Theater, March 1980

Great Times 🖤

#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #theclash #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Swoon💞

Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music and the Art of Listening Through Silence “We make our lives by what we love.”

The illustrated story of how John Cage revolutionized music and the art of listening through silence