Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together

The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart

Two white women in uniforms with jackets, caps, boots and trousers sitting beside a truck while knitting

Women of the Free French ambulance corps, WW2, knitting while awaiting their next call on the Italian front #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Photo of trees, river, ground, with snow. December 2021.

older photo, missing snow, and that window is nearly closed for this winter.
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Oregon #River #Snow

EQUINOX AURORAS: The magnetic field of Earth can link to the magnetic field of the sun. It's called the "Russell-McPherron effect," and it is responsible for these unexpected auroras over New York last night spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

Pokemon Gogh

cool jellyfish that looks like a flower (about 100mm diameter- lion’s mane?) red center with white petals long tentacles

saw a cool jellyfish that looks like a flower (about 100mm diameter- lion’s mane?)

"As difficult as it may seem, the secret to living in harmony is accepting others just as they are."

- Ellen Jaffe Jones

Photo of a Black woman sculptor in a studio workibg on a sculpture resembling the head of a Black woman

Simone Leigh (born 1967), contemporary US artist from Chicago, in the studio working on her sculpture 'Brick House' #WomensArt

Yuko Shimizu, a New York based award-winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt #Tuesday

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
~ Ram Dass

Good morning my friends! Removing myself from the noise and clamor, I begin to hear the musings of the wind, of the forest, of my own blood. The wisdom of the universe is not elusive, we are.

Please do have yourself a beautiful day. ❤️

Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass

“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Rep. Kevin Kiley leaves GOP to become an independent, complicating Johnson's majority Rep. Kevin Kiley of California said Monday he was immediately leaving the Republican Party to become an independent.

BREAKING: Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is SWITCHING PARTIES. Effective immediately, he is leaving the Republican party to become an Independent. This complicates Mike Johnson’s slim majority. www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-k...

Johnson: I think what we are learning from the Epstein files was a well-coordinated act of treason. If you think about how they use blackmail to get policymakers to act outside of the best interests of this nation and our Constitution, that’s treason.

White standing doll facing forwards with blonde hair tied back wearing a dark top and matching trousers

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French painter, obtained a police permit to wear "men's clothes' as expected female fashions were so restrictive. She was so popular that girls were given dolls dressed in trousers to mimic Rosa’s unconventional style #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.

We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

Rustic photograph of a double-waterfall splashing into a river Photo Lindsay McWhorter , pinterest

Stay hydrated . . .
A reminder from mother earth

Wishing you a good week, friends
Photo: Lindsay McWhorter, pinterest

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

"We have to create an art for liberation and for life. .."
-Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..."
- Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
UK artist
#InternationalWomensDay

"I find inspiration EVERYWHERE!"
- Louise Gardiner (1972-2023)
UK artist
#InternationalWomensDay

"I found myself, I made myself, and I said what I had to say.”
- Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)
French artist
#InternationalWomensDay

"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters"
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay