Beautiful! When I was in Shanghai very briefly, I saw a lot of imagery of glamorous 1930s women, “Shanghai girls.” I guess this is tapping into that nostalgia?

To any and all who write on 19c America and want to improve the quality of their writing, a simple piece of advice: quote Frederick Douglass as much as you can and bask in the glow of his eloquence.

Yay to 1914 hoarders! This house was built by a Scottish immigrant carpenter and he knew we’d need those extras.

The fireplace itself needs an investment to make it useable again, plus the chimney needs lining, but knowing that the tiles don’t require some extraordinary act of historic preservation makes the rest of it a lot easier to contemplate. Yay!

Hand holding some tiles with a green/brown pattern, above a fireplace hearth with the same tile pattern

Old house score! I started cleaning out a corner of the basement and came across a bin full of extra tiles that match the broken ones around our fireplace. I had been agonizing for two years about what to do about those broken tiles! Now I’m wondering if they are actually original to 1914 or not…

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The comment deadline is TODAY, April 7. Please submit your comment now at protectchaco.org. Not sure what to say? They have a copy and paste message 😉.

The foreground is dominated by the dark, heavily cratered lunar surface. In the distance, a crescent Earth, setting. Behind, the black of deep space.

I can't stop staring at these photos.

This is what Earthset looks like—our homeworld setting behind the Moon.

And compare the dark, cratered surface of the Moon to the blue oceans and swirling clouds on our own planet.

If there's a starker illustration of our lifegiving world, I've yet to see it.

The earth peeking out from behind the moon and a post by a madman

The dichotomy of human experience.

A monumental scientific achievement and one man threatening to destroy everything all on the same screen.

Here's the SAA's public comment on the revocation of protection from drilling in the 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Canyon. saa.org/common/Uploa...

What this also means:
We should be grateful for our atmosphere
👀

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Iron Age textiles from Hallstatt salt mine (©NHM Vienna).
Look, colour!
www.academia.edu/16597426/Tex...

This is the greatest product placement of all time.

TIMELINE CLEANSE!

I was not prepared to see astronauts crying and hugging in space as they remember their friend and colleague’s late wife. 😭

Sorry to pester, but there's just one more day to get public comments in. More info and links in my thread below but the best option if you know what you want to say is at the Bureau of Land Management website here. Click on "participate now" at the top and write your comment.

Evening Glow in Spring.

© Kawase Hasui

As close as I was going to get to his little face— a black and yellow striped snake who is partly on a lichen-covered rock looking at me.

A little snake on the forest floor. He is black and yellow striped and has his front end on a rock

Signs of spring- a cute little snake sunning himself on a warm rock

lmaoooo

Boosting again for those who’ve missed this call to action. Please submit a public comment before Easter if you can! You can do it at the link in the first post which has a script, or scroll down for the direct link to the Bureau of Land Management page.

Respectfully: McMahon&Trump have cut&crippled Yale research, slashed student scholarships, demeaned&threatened academic freedom, blatantly violated statutory&constitutional protections for Yale&all Americans—&worked to dismantle the entire Dept of Ed. yaledailynews.com/articles/mci...

Crescent view of Earth. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd.

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Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The cover of my old paperback copy has a painting called The Governess, by Richard Redgrave. And a cover price of $4.95 😂

Love love love this book. I hadn’t reread it in probably twenty years, what a pleasure to go back to it again ❤️

Flyer for the UConn Powwow says it's today, from 12-5 in the Radcliffe Hicks Arena. Sponsored by NAISA, NACP. It has an Indigenous UConn logo, and photos of students and dancers at last year's powwow.

Beautiful maklaks by Lucy Jensen are leather with beaver trim, with large white and red beaded flowers on the top of the feet. The shoes rest on the back of blue seats in an empty arena. (It hasn't started)

If you are near Storrs CT, stop by the UConn powwow today! It's at the Radcliffe Hicks arena in Stores, CT from 12-5

(He’s not a monster, he’s a nice retired man who cares deeply about straight lines and neat edges. He probably is appalled by our shaggy yard.)

Of course if I ran out and complained I’d be the shrew next door who’s making trouble for him…

My next door neighbor trimming the forsythia hedge, about a week before it is set to gloriously bloom outside our dining room window. 😔 It’s his hedge and he does all the work, so he can do what he wants… but what kind of monster can’t wait two weeks before doing this?

Try it! I’ve been drinking chamomile tea before bed too but can’t imagine that’s making such a big difference.

Check for interactions of course- I’m being careful not to overlap with my thyroid medicine.

I’ve been sleeping really badly for a few years, as women my age tend to- waking up, often with nightmares, and couldn’t fall asleep again. Lately I very skeptically started taking magnesium glycinate, and I’m sleeping so well now! Makes no sense to me but I’m keeping at it…