Kathy Leonard

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🌳 My church is the woods
🪶 The birds are my mentors
#vt #Vermont #birds #woods #mts #nativeplants #WendellBerry #tardigrades #nobot @GrnMtChickadee.
We knew this day would come.
He is gone.
Flaco, king of New York, you were magnificent.
❤️‍🔥💔💜🦉

@toddtyrtle

Todd, you and I had a somewhat lengthy conversation here some months ago now.
About Bethel and Randolph Center (your bike trip; photo of your son in Floyd’s store).
I’m not here much (Mastodon).

@swampudlian @drvolts

They cost us maybe twice as much THEN as they would cost you NOW.
We felt it was worth it. They are Schott panels; they were made in the U.S. but no longer.
I cannot remember cost but I believe we broke even after 10-12 years and those years have flown by.

@swampudlian @drvolts
Just do it… now (pref with a small installer (the big ones can be evil).
We put a small array on our shed roof 14 years ago (just 2k) and it produces 50% of our household use.

No moving parts but electrons.
Photo: our small shed with 12 solar panels (and some blueberry bushes).

@AdamParkhomenko
Now THAT’s a good post for today.
John Lewis came to Vermont Law School for MLK Day one year and the room was so happy to have him there speaking to us, sharing his story. I’ll bet I’m not the only one who thinks of him when I need to summon some courage.. his was infectious.

@sarrants

In the Randolph VT area we’ve been getting anywhere from 3-5 mail deliveries a week, even when notified that we’ve got mail.

Spoke with the PO; they are extremely short on staff and have been making a heroic effort to do the best they can - like delivering mail on a Sunday or in the evenings.

Whaddaya gonna do.

@TheREAL_HouseMD
Renaissance man. 🤓
I’ve led a few lives.. glad I escaped my hometown or I’d have missed those other lives.

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

@brendan @scully

I’ve switched to the Metatext app, which others have recommended (it’s a quick download). Looks more like the birdsite, more intuitive but I’m new with it still.

@jessamyn @nikodemus

Thanks- this Mastodon tip sheet is the best I’ve seen!