Willow

; river flows gently;
trickle of tranquility //
lulled softly to sleep.

#dailyhaikuprompt #tranquil #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #rive #water #photography #naturephotography #cornwall

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

I rarely join in on these but couldn't resist this niche reference...clearly no cheating here...therapy with a very british tv 70s/80s terrifying twist 😳

Week in wildlife: a peek-a-boo fish, dunkin’ frogs and a white crow This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: a peek-a-boo fish, dunkin’ frogs and a white crow

"I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; &, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature & extent of space, the fall of light from the heavens, the pooling of time in the present, as if it were water."

~ ‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez (1945-2020)

#Photography

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial

Coral background with faint heart illustrations. A glossy male Blackbird with a bright yellow bill faces left. Large title reads: “Birds as bad exes*” Smaller text reads: “*Yes, you read that right.”

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

Sending rays of sunshine and love on Valentines Day. Photo taken from Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise. #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2026

Saving hedgehogs starts with small steps close to home From storybook stars to real-life strugglers, hedgehogs are vanishing in the UK. Walk 3km this spring and help them roam and survive

As hedgehogs wake from hibernation, they need us more than ever.

Make the ‘Hedgehog Walk’ a family event, and help stop their alarming decline.

Sometimes protecting wildlife really is just one small step 🦔💚

Details ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

"Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul."
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

🎨 Namikawa Sōsuke (19th century)

Two deer, a golden moon, Jackdaws, fern and the words from Rumi.

“I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.” Rumi

And I love these words. Love the thought animals co-existing together. Also love weaving ferns into my paintings.
#womensart

Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Don’t think apartness breaks what hearts have made.
The sun will span all space to warm the stone,
So too does love traverse each distant shade,
For I am with you when you are alone.

#vss365

1/5

[HQ] The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans YouTube video by Alex Marvik

Porcelina

I touch the place where your deep currents sleep,
And find my soul cast into fathoms wide.

Though seas divide, their tides our hearts still keep,
And any ling’ring grief is scorned, decried.

And love, like shipwrecked gold, sinks, rises, flies,
A weight unseen beneath uncharted skies.

Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

~Shams Of Tabriz

Al Jazeera’s journalists risk everything to cover Israel’s war on Gaza, led by bureau chief Wael al Dahdouh who continues reporting even after losing his closest family.

Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 1: aje.me/thepriceoftr...

With words attributed to Victor Hugo.

The sun will rise, the days will get longer, the light will return.
I LOVE the winter solstice - the summer solstice fills me with sadness. The Winter solstice fills me with hope.

otis redding ♡ you send me

Cabbage white butterfly hovering above a purple plant.

This may help

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits

PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 November 1897. Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar, Wales. He spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948 by the Labour government. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens, irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history.

Whatever we choose,
the dance carries on
for it is not our choosing
but Love’s own turning
that moves the stars and hearts alike

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off old prejudices & build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

P.T. Chardin (c. 1950)

#Painting

The Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan In the mountains of Central Asia, a Small group of outdoorsmen are keeping an ancient tradition alive.

Wonderful article and photographs.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/the-eag...

Stories of Bettys bar and wartime romances in York Mirror with names of WW2 airmen etched onto it is still a poignant attraction at the famous tearoom.

Bettys tearoom in York: stories of wartime romances and lost comrades uncovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

York Clifford's Tower plan offers chance to commemorate Jewish massacre of 1190 Proposals for the area should recognise its significance for Jewish communities, an academic says.

York Clifford’s Tower plans offer ‘once in a generation’ chance to commemorate 1190 Jewish massacre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vital existence.

𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜—

𝙽𝚘 𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛,
𝚗𝚘 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚢,
𝚗𝚘 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚘.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎—
𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕,
𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍.

#Diversity