“Already abandoned my body once— look what happened after.” -from Oliver Baez Bendorf’s “Will and Testament” therumpus.net/2020/04/nation… #NationalPoetryMonth

Picking this one because it made me smile for our decision to keep our tree up a long time this year, for the extra light. “…If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.” From Jane Kenyon’s “Taking Down the Tree” poetryfoundation.org/poems/49767/ta… #NationalPoetryMonth

I'm not getting very far yet, but I am starting to get outside with the camera. flickr.com/photos/jspad/5…

This is from @ronnabloom 's Public Works #NationalPoetryMonth

Dust by @doriannelaux -- this is how it is, sometimes.  #NationalPoetryMonth

Gretchen Marquette’s “Figure Drawing” #NationalPoetryMonth triquarterly.org/issues/figure-…

This. So much this.

"We have the simplest names for the most terrifying and beautiful things." Oh this is worth reading.

This isn't what most people would think you'd see walking around downtown Lynn, but it's still here. flic.kr/p/2kXCaky

Pres. Biden & Senate Dems should take a step back and ask themselves if playing patty-cake w GOP Senators is really worth the dismantling of people’s voting rights, setting the planet on fire, allowing massive corporations and the wealthy to not pay their fair share of taxes, etc

We are still in the midst of the civil rights movement, and I fundamentally believe that disability justice must be a central part of that intersectional struggle for liberation.   Our destinies are tied. As we mark #ADA31, we recommit to the necessary work ahead.

Art is an endurance technology. And birdsong.

I'm thinking of Sturgeon's law.

I wish this didn't resonate, but it does. And I devote energy to noticing the good things.

A research field I didn't know about: Discard Studies - which things get discarded in our work and society, and who gets to decide what gets discarded? We need to honor the origins of knowledge and ideas, rather than extracting them. #CriticalUX

Reminder that there are gifts you could give today that will really make a difference for people in need. And probably for you, too.

I finished my 365 project, one self portrait a day for a year. There were times it seemed longer, but that's just 2021. flickr.com/photos/jspad/a…

I love these cats so much. Not leaving the fragile behind matters in so many contexts.

I'm finding the willingness.