‘Storks are back in Britain – and they’re a beacon of hope for all of us’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

#YouClapForMeNow

Imagination will fulfill itself, so do not limit yourself by anything that is now happening, no matter what it is.

Old Fox had woken his little household at dawn. He had lit a bonfire in the wildish part of the garden & made each of his friends a wreath of cow parsley & May blossom. They sat Pine Marten on a tree stump, wrapped in a heavy blanket, & together, as one, they sang the summer in.

Kraftwerk, a few months after Woodstock Thank you 🤖

The lowest hanging fruit in creating enjoyable cities for low income citizens is as cheap as it is unpopular with our ruling elites: community gardens, not bike trails, not hiking, not "vibrant restaurants". environment.princeton.edu/news/emotional…

Dismayed to find Stirling Council cutting roadside verges today. Stopped them cutting right side, but see the state of the left. Bluebells, daisies, dandelions all lost when pollinators need them most. Iolo Williams Chris Packham would be grateful for a RT. This has to stop.

„Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.“ Franz Kafka

Colossal statue of Mars - Reinhold Begas, 1897. (National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument demolished by the East German Communist Party).

Youngsters in Nigeria play Fela Kuti’s “Lady.” (This is my idea of what children’s school music programs should be like.)

Ganesha, remover of obstacles, and patron deity of Vedic astrology- drinking from a skull cup, 13th century Java. (National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden)

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. - e.e. cummings #Poetry

Ancient Egyptian black serpentine scarab, dated to 664-332 BC Source: Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark.

Venus has entered Pisces, the sign of its exaltation where it will stay for the next three weeks Mashallah and Al Khayyat says Venus in Pisces is the mark of nobility, of makers of beauty, and those who are indecisive in love, but when they love they love as if in devotion.

“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.” 🌹 Anna Akhmatova

Travelling with cranes along the Loire valley - France - #hope