Cynthianna ReardonPawlak

Stop this world I want to get off. Actually I'm 75 so I've got a decent chance of exiting this world before these assholes make it completely unlivable for actual human beings.

Oh Liam! This is gorgeous! In my 30s I worked as a trail guide and supply packer at Glacier Nat’l Park MT US. There was a section of trail on the way up to the Continental Divide where the aspens were so thick & the trail so narrow it was like riding through whispering gold. Love this so much.

The cover art caught me first - I collect feathers. The synopsis piqued my interest. Recovering from knee surgery and dealing with rehab I needed to take a time-out from my usual fare of political and speculative fiction and try something kinder.

Lemon yellow Dessert Primrose. Four separate heart shaped petals on a three inch stem growing from ground hugging arrow shaped foliage of dandelion green. Plant has two open blooms and the buds still to bloom. It is growing up through gravel of tans, browns, clay-reds. Dried grasses from last summer are arrayed around the primrose.

03/07/2026 Deming NM

This is WHO HE IS -

Who THEY are - eat it MAGA

Lush green mound of ground hugging foliage growing in gravel and sand. Six lavender flowers - desert phlox - five joined petals with rounded forms similar to clover leaves.

Bright tangerine center with yellow edges help the inverted cone shaped California poppy stand out against its ground hugging green foliage and the tan, brown abs greys of the desert gravel it is growing in.

Desert phlox and California poppies are blooming in Deming New Mexico…they began showing in February…no winter here this year.

Actor David Morse (on left) narrates ‘Theo of Golden’ by Allen Levi. (on right) Cover of the title. Black on cream background; a feather in the center with the title above the authors name below and the narrator name to the right.

Back cover of ‘Theo of Golden’. A mix of gold and black text on cream background. A park bench with birds beneath it sketched in black, a brief description of the novel: One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another. Below the synopsis is a photo of the author (bottom left) with his basic bio: Allen Levi - attorney, judge, singer/songwriter and author- lives on and cares for family acreage near a small town in middle Georgia. Theo of Golden is his first novel.

The title is printed aslant upward to the right. The words ‘THE’ and ‘OF’ are black block all caps. ‘Frederick Fife’ is in black script. The words ‘BORROWED LIFE’ are in bright yellow all caps. The authors name is in white all caps across the bottom. A primitive style image of an older man stands facing left on the T and O of the authors name. A seagull image stands facing right on the first R of the word BORROWED. Primitive images of half clouds in pale blue go out of frame on mid left and right and line images of flying seagulls in black - all on a background ‘sky’ of teak/turquoise.

Just finished listening to ‘Theo of Golden’ by Allen Levi and voice acted by David Morse - excellent. Started ‘The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife’ by Anna Johnston and voice acted by Tim Carroll - enjoying it very much thus far.

Afghanistan Veteran Max Rose says war is unpredictable and risky, and puts US pilots and troops in danger. Iran has shown it can and will attack US bases. Iran is much larger than Iraq, making it necessary to put boots on the ground. With everything at stake, Congress cannot be a bystander!

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My kid brothers’ nickname for me when we were teens

Oh my my what a lot of wheels…
All of you work cheers me, but for some unknown reason this one made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

From Deming NM (southwesternNM) in lower contiguous 48 of North America. The very last of my garden harvest 2025/2026. All picked February 14/26. In the center Sweet Anaheim peppers surrounded by: From bottom left clockwise: Heirloom Red tomatoes; mini Black Beauty peppers; more tomatoes and some green Bell papers; a large Black Beauty pepper (at 2:00) and one last green Bell at 4:00ish. While we have had some frosts between 2-5am, the days have been in 50s-70s. I can not say we have had winter in southern New Mexico so far and we’re midway through February. This makes me nervous even while I enjoyed the very last harvesting.

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Deming NM 9pm: pack of four singing in my northeast pasture. Too dark to photograph. Found there tracks yesterday. Luckily my dog is deeply asleep with hubby in a closed room or he (the dog) would be singing as well.

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NEWC is a fantastic organization — super gifted and caring people there….I lived nearby in Rhode Island many years ago. Here’s a link for an update:
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Two very old mesquite trees anchoring my growing xeriscape desert garden. Full moon rising over all

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Two wooden camp rockers beside a metal and glass circular table with metal can luminaries lending a soft glow underneath our old non-bearing mulberry. This was January 12 and the tree still has its leaves. They are all fallen now (February 12) but I’ve got bugs showing on my fruit trees! This is not normal.

So I left the north east of the lower contiguous 48 states of North America to move to the southwest of New Mexico. NM till had winter but not five months of it with 4’ snowfalls every week…. This year it’s February and the days are in the 60s& 70s and there are butterflies on my crocuses. Scary.

Today’s moment of calm
Golden memories
A little owl and two bumblebees.
A moment of interaction, held forever on panels of gold.

I think I’ll keep working on it. Something isn’t quite correct yet

February 2 2026 full moon bursting momentarily between clouds above and below and a circle of old pines paying homage before it vanishes behind dark low clouds cover

…um…Area X fan art?….hhhmm, maybe a pilsbury dough golem?!

Got cha. I love sitting for hours cuddled with a real ‘dead tree’ book. But after eye surgery I was sooo grateful for audio books, especially beautifully acted/ narrated titles.

Oy. Making me dizzy(er). Neat shot though.

Pencil sketch of a raven. Body facing left; head looking right over its shoulder.

Third try at a Raven sketch. Took three days of fussing…feel okay about it

Thank you for sharing. Soooo needed this.
Sage smudge and Blessing Wheel blessing to you, Kristi and Athena - and anyone else you hold in your heart

Two vintage lamp posts (right third of shot) casting their shadows against a wall of brick and stucco at an alleyway entrance. Mesquite branches and their shadows compliment the upper left third of the photo. A pleasing mix of soft grey/beige stucco and walkway against terra cotta bricks, charcoal grey lam posts and darker shadows.

We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ... (C.S. Lewis)

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Bottom half is flat expanse rendered in lime green brushed horizontally with hints of orange showing through from underneath. In mid-distance sit a herd of dozens of fallow deer, in shades of browns with some orange and blue touches. Top half of painting is sky of painterly yellows separated from grass by band of distant trees. It is a royal blue band with dark wine blotches representing the nearest clumps of trees. Signed bottom right in blue, Liam Daly

A #painting. "Phoenix Park Deer" I painted because one of the places I've walked most in life is across the centre of the Fifteen Acres in the Phoenix Park. This was on the go for almost 10 years before I was happy with it it - and then I was very happy with it. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

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Yeah…that’s me

In my thirties (40 yrs ago) I worked on a ranch where we raised Scottish highlanders. I got to mother two orphans. They are my ‘babies’ for two years until the owner sold them. I had lots of hug time but then lots of cry time. At least they were females and sold as breeders. Hugs

I just want to hug it

Thank you