Sometimes a conversation helps someone grow. Inspires change. Leads to a new idea. Makes the world just a little better.

Usually we never find out, but that’s not the point. It’s enough knowing each of us has the potential to be a spark ✨

So be wildly supportive, encourage curiosity & spread as much kindness as possible. You never know where it will lead.

We've all had a day or two to process what the Supreme Court just did.

The battle for our country and for the rule of law, not of oligarchs, lies ahead of us. Let us recommit to it now, and with grave determination resolve to turn this tide back in 2024.

I am ready. Are you?

SCOTUS: We exist to defend rights for all people in America!!

Students?

SCOTUS: Except them

LGBTQ people?

SCOTUS: Except them

Migrants seeking asylum?

SCOTUS: Except them

Women seeking healthcare?

SCOTUS: Except them

Black people seeking equality?

SCOTUS: Except them

Then who?

Rich white MAGAs rejected from Harvard.

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You: You haven't spent your Sunday chasing bees round the garden with your camera then drawing on the photos have you?

Me: What?! That sounds like a foolish way to waste an afternoon!

Also me: Yes, yes I have.

#nature #photography #flowers #bees #silly #drawing

God it's depressing that people believe this is the true nature of downtowns:

"Without commuting office workers, the office buildings go empty, they become worth a fraction of their cost, and retail cannot survive."

From https://innovationnation.blog/p/its-companies-fault-we-dont-want

Cities predate commutes. The hollowed out core that triples in population, swelled to bursting with bored and unhappy suburbanites during work hours, is a modern abomination made possible by cars and structural racism.

What's killing downtowns is that we spent so long on this awful vision of work and spent half a century strangling inner city infrastructure to subsidize incredibly expensive suburban lifestyles.

Want to make downtowns viable again? Convert dead office space to apartments and schools and colleges and other spaces people can work *and* live in.

Good luck with your rezoning applications though.