BarbChamberlain

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Sunday reflection time could not be better: Picking raspberries in my thriving garden while listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer read her essay "Becoming Earth: An Experimental Theology" in Emergence Magazine https://pca.st/episode/6ef8aafc-aea8-436e-b25a-5bb8939df9d3. #trees #ecology #death #rebirth #emergence #plants #soil #humus #SoilScience #forest #OldGrowthForest #CarbonCycle #environment #science
Becoming Earth: An Experimental Theology – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Pocket Casts
Independence and Freedom, Courtesy of the Bicycle

Some of the ways riding a bike makes me feel independent and free: Competence and self-sufficiency: I can fix most basic mechanical problems that would stop me from going down the road. Not all, bu…

Bike Style Life
#Caturday mood.

OMG people if the illustration is AI-generated don't propagate that shit even if you agree with the message

you are making yourself part of the problem

"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.

And telling it again.

And again.

And again."

"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."

-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26

#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice

Fourth of July Man

Years ago I wrote about the values in the 4H Pledge https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2011/02/head-heart-hands-and-health.html. Ever since then when I find a good pledge I drop it in the comments on that post. The poems make suitable reading for the Fourth of July, especially in these times. These aren't unthinking patriotism--they pledge to things like the soil in a garden and Janet Wong's "acceptance / of the views, / so different, /
that make us America."

#America #pledge #PledgeOfAllegiance #4H #poetry #poems #poem #PoemADay #TodaysPoem

Head, Heart, Hands and Health

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

The right poem for today: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again.

"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak."

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #LangstonHughes #freedom #America

Let America Be America Again

(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false…

The Poetry Foundation

Potato blossoms are beautiful.

#garden #gardening #potatoes #plants #flowers

Please boost if you're in/near Olympia WA! Laugh at/with ImprovOly July 2 at Wild Child! Doors open 6:30, family-friendly improv show 7-8:30pm with brief (fun) intermission. Tix sliding scale online or at the door (but last show sold out early!). 🙃https://www.improvoly.com/public-calendar/laugh-at-improvoly
#ImprovOly #Improv #ImprovComedy #ImprovOlympia #Comedy #WhoseLine #OlympiaWA #OlyWA #OlympiaEvents
Laugh at improvOly — Improv Oly

Come see improvOly LIVE on July 2, 2025 at Wild Child in downtown Olympia, WA! All-ages laughs and real made-up jokes! Our ticket pricing is a sliding scale starting at $7/ticket because everyone deserves to laugh. Doors open at 6:30pm, show is 7-8:30pm.

Improv Oly

Excerpt from "The Night I Fell in Love with the Whole World" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer:

"Each of you, too, longs to belong. No matter what our leaders do,
the light is right to see how much, you, too, long to be safe,
to be seen, to be kind, to be loved, to be trusted, to be home."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/06/23/the-night-i-fell-in-love-with-the-whole-world/

#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poem #poems #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #immigrant #refugee #love #home

The Night I Fell in Love with the Whole World

 It was the boy at baggage claim who started it.His elation! Each time a new bag would drop,he would point at the suitcase and squeal,then turn to his grandmother with incandescent delight.His gran…

A Hundred Falling Veils