All eyes on the sky for the Lyrid Meteor Shower! ☄️

The Lyrid Meteor Shower is gearing up for its big show, and you don’t want to miss it! Peak viewing is today, April 21, and tomorrow, April 22. Expect up to 20 meteors per hour streaking across the darkness.

Grab a blanket, find a dark place, take a stargazing buddy, and look up at the sky to experience one of the most beautiful shows space can give!

#space #science

sometimes people ask me how i seem to be able to 'do so many things'. i say i have the type of #adhd that feels like this:

- instead of feeling like i can go 200 miles per hour randomly distributed in a single place or project
- with time, coaching, training, and better sleep (undiagnosed sleep apnea made it even worse), i now have the kind where i feel i can go up to 200 miles per hour across 3-4 things at a time
- things i'm not interested in are still very very hard to do
- so at some point i decided i will only do the things i'm very very interested in (took a while to get to a place where i could do that)
- now that i'm there, as long as i am able to shift my 200 mph focus consistently across the 3-4 buckets of projects
- eventually i'll do a few pretty fun things!

this is a difficult topic to talk about because everyone experiences this differently, and no one should ever say 'see, this adhd person can still do things' as a way of weaponizing it against another person with a different experience. that's also ableist

for me it also helped when i stopped thinking about the 'all the things i can't do because i suck stupid adhd' and more of 'ok my brain works differently how can i trick my silly brain'. even with that, veering too much into 'my adhd is my superpower' is also super ableist

at the end of the day, i like doing all of these things not out of a 'i have to do this or i suck', but because i feel truly compelled to expend my energy on the many many things i care about!

but if i had to do things i didn't like and people told me i sucked all the time for not being able to do the things i didn't like, it would probably be a very different experience.

#Cacti #Succulents #BloomScrolling

It will soon be time for my cacti to burst into flower. Some are starting already. These from previous years.

Insectenhotel

#Insects #Nature #Photography

"I'm not saying another word without my lawyer present"

"Sir, you are a lawyer"

"So where's my present?"

Tuesday.

Cat sees facilitator stir at 5am.

She settles herself on his chest.

Oh, hai cat.

( hmm, this is too early for tuna or going out )

Cat accepts scritches.

( good, good, enjoy scritch, forget routine )

Cat settles.

Moves off chest.

Forgets routine.

( phew. zzz )