CJ and the Dude

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Claire Wiltsher (b.1962, Wales) Autumn Mist. - Oil on canvas.

Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️

Husband requested blackberry cobbler but with a double crust. So what he really wanted was pie!

Love is not a finite thing. #sixwordstory

Greet everything with a kiss hello. #sixwordstory

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

My handsome Dude showing a little attitude #DogDay

An osprey dive bombing breakfast in the Outer Banks! #OBX #birds

Mama said there’d be days like this . . .

no words. . .

Truth. . .

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Yes! Thank you Minneapolis for showing us how Solidarity is done! We love and support you!

The heartbreakingly beauty of Amanda Gorman’s words for humanity. Be the light. Save a soul.

Aloka the dog who walked with the Buddhist monks, being honored when he arrived in Raleigh, NC. And he’s damn proud of it. 👌

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

Here in Virginia, this feels like a breath of fresh air . . . albeit in the midst of the raging dumpster fire that is our federal government. But, hey, I'll take all the air I can get.

Written not to shame, but to speak; carrying anger that is measured, thoughtful, & deliberately restrained It addresses directly this indefensible act of ego fuelled vandalism, but also carries judgement on our own selfish, fleeting acts that have ecological consequences #poetry #poemoftheday

About the only things uplifting in this cruel world now are the venerable monks and their beloved canine, Aloka. 😭 #WalkForPeace 💙

Honoring the Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, who are undertaking a 2,300 mile pilgrimage of Walk for Peace. The monks and their loyal dog Aloka are traveling through 10 states en route to Washington, D.C. #walkforpeace Artist: Carol Carter

A magnolia bloom from May 2024 — better times. . .

W.S. Merwin with a beautiful poem for the day that it is.

Here's a shot I got in May of a Cliff Swallow colony on the central coast. There were so many nests I lost count and I can't wait to get back there in 2026! #Birds #Photography #Nature

I was reminded I saved this a while ago:

Today's poem is for everyone who finished work for the holidays That holiday feeling after a few days off and too much to eat & drink and you can't remember what day or what time it is. You have lost the ability to count how many chocolates you have eaten #poetry #poemoftheday #Christmas

Dinner with my daughter . . . Who says the one thing that reveals me more deeply to myself. Astonishment dances with delight.

one hand opens in grief the other in gratitude pressing them together to pray — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “One on Thanksgiving”

Really @kaine.senate.gov You sold us out . . .and for what? My husband and I have voted for you since you were governor. Our daughter worked on your first Senate campaign. And you cave NOW!

Period.

This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Sharing . . .because her words are always a balm open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...

My sweet Tesla- still going to be killed - BUT WE HAVE A RESCUE FOR HIM! I just need a foster #home -NY NJ CT ME RI VT PA DE DC MD NH NE VA- SOME1 foster this baby! Transport/vet/food provided! Why would u not foster? REPOST& #fuckTrump

I stand with Matthew Dowd.

They want you numb. Overworked. Distracted. Apologizing for how much you feel in a world that profits off your disconnection. But staying soft in a world broken like this is not a weakness. It’s proof that you haven’t given up on being human.

Haven’t made a sourdough boule lately, but cooler weather has inspired me to bake bread.