BarbChamberlain

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Working in active transportation policy. Believing in the work I do because #transportation policy = #health policy = #climate policy = #EnvironmentalJustice policy. More at https://bsky.app/profile/barbchamberlain.bsky.
May talk about #books, #poetry, #PacNW where I live, #gardening, #CanningSeason, #mindfulness, #movies, #cooking, #food, #coffee, #birds, #walking, and my #cat. #cycling #BikeTooter #WordsMatter #SafetyOverSpeed #RoadSafety #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #ReadMore #ClimateCrisis
Personal bloghttp://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/
Bike bloghttp://bikestylelife.com/
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BarbChamberlainApr 20
STREET ART UTOPIAApr 20

Too Small Not to Love (12 Photos)

Some street art shouts from giant walls. This collection whispers from cracks, corners, weeds, bricks, drainpipes, and forgotten bits of sidewalk. These 12 tiny works prove that the smallest interventions can completely change how we see the city. You just have to slow down enough to notice them! More: Tiny Art That Makes You Look Twice (8 Photos) 🤝 The Corner Climb — By Exitenter in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 Exitenter turns the hard edge of a building into a tiny drama of kindness. […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/20/tiny-cute-and-clever-street-art-designs/

Too Small Not to Love (12 Photos) - STREET ART UTOPIA

Some street art shouts from giant walls. This collection whispers from cracks, corners, weeds, bricks, drainpipes, and forgotten bits of sidewalk. These 12 tiny works prove that the smallest interventions can completely change how we see the city. You just have to slow down enough to notice them! More: Tiny Art That Makes You Look […]

STREET ART UTOPIA
BarbChamberlainApr 20

Every year I make a recording, sometimes two, for the Dawn Chorus worldwide citizen science effort. Join me to contribute your local birds! https://dawn-chorus.org/en/

#birds #birding #birdwatching #DawnChorus #science #nature #NatureSounds #BirdCalls #biodiversity #SaveBiodiversity

Dawn Chorus - Citizen Science project for birdsong

Dawn Chorus is a Citizen Science and Arts project. Record the morning birdsong at your doorstep and share it with the world!

Dawn Chorus
BarbChamberlainApr 19

Rereading blog posts on a western WA bike tour we took in 2018 makes me want to put in more bike mileage to get ready to tour again.

If you have links to stories about good tours in WA or OR I'd love to get them. I also have Cycling Sojourner guides to WA + OR, a bit dated now on some info but still helpful on routes.

Overview + links to individual trip posts: https://bikestylelife.com/2018/06/08/bike-touring-northwest-washington-state-how-our-bike-ferry-train-loop-worked-out/

#BikeTooter #BikeTouring #cycling #travel #GoByBike #BikeEverywhere #BikeBooks #BikeTravel #BikeWA #BikeOR

Bike Touring Northwest Washington State: How Our Bike + Ferry + Train Loop Worked Out

I started with an overall plan for bike touring from our front door in southwest Seattle that would take us north and west in a big loop. My general parameters: Start from our front door. Technical…

Bike Style Life
BarbChamberlainApr 14

RE: https://ruby.social/@eljojo/116380569850592990

I don't play video games but have to give this a boost.

#transit #BikeTooter #transportation #Cities4Climate #walking #walkability #WalkFriendly #CompleteStreets

BarbChamberlainFeb 14

Excerpt from Ellen Bass, "Pray for Peace":

"When you walk to your car, to the mailbox,
to the video store, let each step
be a prayer that we all keep our legs,
that we do not blow off anyone else’s legs.
Or crush their skulls.
And if you are riding on a bicycle
or a skateboard, in a wheelchair, each revolution
of the wheels a prayer as the earth revolves:
less harm, less harm, less harm."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/ellen-bass-pray-for-peace.html

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #PoetryOfPresence #peace #EllenBass

Ellen Bass: "Pray for Peace"

A collection of daily mindfulness poems, composed primarily by contemporary and recent poets of the here & now.

BarbChamberlainFeb 14

Excerpt from "what is unveiled? the founding wound" by adrienne maree brown.

"things are not getting worse
they are getting uncovered
we must hold each other tight
and continue to pull back the veil
see: we, the body, we are the wounded place

we live on a resilient earth
where change is the only constant"

https://grateful.org/resource/what-is-unveiled-the-founding-wound/

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #AdrienneMareeBrown

what is unveiled? the founding wound

a body is always a body/individual or collective/(whole or in many pieces)/alive or, later, dead/a body is aways vulnerable...

Grateful.org
BarbChamberlainFeb 14

15 seconds of peace.

The waterfall is courtesy of #UPS, in Seattle's Pioneer Square.

#water #waterfalls #Seattle #PioneerSquare #peaceful

BarbChamberlainFeb 9

Snowy owls are gorgeous birds. Happy Norman Smith makes it his business to relocate them away from Logan Airport. https://youtu.be/H3xKx0DAxQw?si=3U_TWcteloz2X2vo

#birds #owls #SnowyOwls #airports #LoganAirport #NormanSmith #aviation

The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

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BarbChamberlainFeb 8

I don't have Brendan Leonard's drawing skills but I now want to recreate my life in bicycles. https://semi-rad.com/2020/10/life-in-12-bicycles/

#BikeTooter #cycling #life #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #MTB #BikePacking #BicycleLove #BikeLove

Life, In 12 Bicycles – Semi-Rad.com

BarbChamberlainFeb 8

New on my blog: A collection of poems you may need as you experience pain and yet still find beauty in this broken world. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-rose-amidst-thorns-poems-about-beauty.html

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #beauty #grief #PoetryOfPresence

A Rose Amidst the Thorns: Poems about Beauty Balancing Pain

Collection of poems on the contrasts between beauty and pain in the world.