Oh pears, how you perplex - glorious one day, mushy the next

Today's new music recommendation: Home, a new album from Hania Rani, pianist and mystical singer-songwriter from Gdansk. youtube.com/watch?v=nQzHck…

The 4 Horsemen of Reading: • YouTube • Television • Social media • Video games

A dombra performance by Marzhan Kapsamat of Nursultan, Kazakhstan. The 23-year-old musician is playing in Lake Köbeituz, a salt lake in Kazakhstan that turns pink every several years.

R.I.P. to a most discerning gentleman kitty.

With gratitude, I celebrate 45 years of sobriety.

FULL AMANDA GORMAN POEM: “We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one ... There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” The 22-year-old is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history: nbcnews.to/3isX8JY

Thanks to every one of you—the storytellers, the rhyme schemers, the witnesses, my forever and always fam, and all those faceless bodies in the back of the room. Thanks for teaching me how to live this life out loud. Thanks for teaching me that poetry is merely everything.

Choosing to believe a horse in line for coffee is a good luck charm for 2022

*sip of water* 🎶 Please do not pass the #TandemPlows Just let them plow, no matter how O #TandemPlow O #TandemPlow How shiny are your plow blades.

Strike a pose! This little yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira lilium) in Guiana flying with solanum fruit!

The brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is is an exceptionally agile flier that feeds on a wide variety of insects, especially moths, caught either in flight of from foliage or the ground. And. It’s. KEWT!!! #batsarecute

Have computers changed since 1979? ↓

The Three Stages of Life: • One Day the World Will Know My Name • I Wish to Unsubscribe from This Email • Existing Is Expensive and I Need a Nap

Many artists, myself included, have dealt with periods of despair. Sometimes my negative feelings effectively crystallize into a painting. By expressing the emotional condition through lines, color and imagery, you literally objectify your subjective interior state.

There are fewer Karens.

hard to trust owls knowing just how much leg they've got hiding under their wings

New year, new you

Artists: Work, work, work, work, work.