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<p>"Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure." ~ Frida Kahlo</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="/tags/sexism/" rel="tag">#sexism</a> <a href="/tags/seedheads/" rel="tag">#SeedHeads</a></p>

Waves of brightly sunlit ecru seedheads of tall decorative grasses blowing in the wind under a blue sky with tall coniferous trees and barren deciduous trees in the background .

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<p>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/defeat/" rel="tag">#defeat</a> <a href="/tags/autumn/" rel="tag">#Autumn</a> <a href="/tags/shadows/" rel="tag">#shadows</a></p>

A corner of a woodland garden with brown and yellow leaves covering the ground. The leaves remaining on the trees are green and yellow. A wrought iron fence borders the right side and corner where sunlight is spilling into the shadowy area.

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<p>"Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future."<br>-Fela Kuti</p><p>📷: Janet Griffiths</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-is-a-weapon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/music-is-a-weapon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/music-is-a-w</span><span class="invisible">eapon/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#Quote</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#Quotes</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a></p>

Black and White photo of Fela Kuti, in a kind of camo shirt, with right fist raised.

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<p>"No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work." ~ Barack Obama</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/strategy/" rel="tag">#strategy</a> <a href="/tags/gardenart/" rel="tag">#GardenArt</a> <a href="/tags/containers/" rel="tag">#containers</a></p>

Ice from containers, some colored, placed next to empty terra cotta plant containers on leaf covered ground being softly lit by low angle sunlight.

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<p>"The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children." ~ Joyce Banda</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/seeds/" rel="tag">#seeds</a> <a href="/tags/gardenseating/" rel="tag">#GardenSeating</a></p>

A rustic wooden chair on a flagstone patio with a cement sign SEEDS next to it with tree branches behind it and a large stone and cement bowl with cement item set in it. There are trees and plants in the background.

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<p>"The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character." ~ Helen Keller</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/landscapephotography/" rel="tag">#LandscapePhotography</a> <a href="/tags/waterway/" rel="tag">#waterway</a></p>

Waterway running under two pedestrian bridges that are both rusty brown colored metal close enough together that it appears as if there is one bridge with a cement piling support in the center. The banks are covered with a mix of brown and green vegetation in front of trees covered in green leaves. The water surface is reflecting the nearby green trees and blue sky.

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<p>“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything… that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/workinprogress/" rel="tag">#WorkInProgress</a> <a href="/tags/sign/" rel="tag">#sign</a> <a href="/tags/gardens/" rel="tag">#gardens</a></p>

Chalk on blackboard sign noting "Work in Progress" wooden sign in garden. Dried leaves cover the dirt ground with gold and red bare branches of dormant plants beyond the sign with a few green leaves sprouting from the earth in the background.

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<p>"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/peace/" rel="tag">#peace</a> <a href="/tags/bloomscrolling/" rel="tag">#BloomScrolling</a></p>

Pollinator garden with a variety of different plants and flowers next to a building.

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<p>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."</p><p><a href="/tags/hitchhikersguide/" rel="tag">#HitchhikersGuide</a> <a href="/tags/douglasadams/" rel="tag">#DouglasAdams</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/bot/" rel="tag">#bot</a></p>

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<p>"I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet." ~ Mahatma Gandhi</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/bloomscrolling/" rel="tag">#BloomScrolling</a> <a href="/tags/lotus/" rel="tag">#lotus</a> <a href="/tags/bud/" rel="tag">#bud</a></p>

Light green-yellow unopened large bud on a stem next to large round leaves with some dried brown parts along the edges of the leaves above a dark colored background.

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<p>“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ~ Benjamin Franklin</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/lilypads/" rel="tag">#lilypads</a> <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#water</a></p>

Round green lily pad leaves floating on the surface of a garden water feature with some opening blooms rising above them. Some branches with green leaves are entering the frame at the top and the water surface is reflecting the gray clouds above.

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<p>"“苻宏这个人吧，确实没多大的野心；但有些仇如何报，他还是很清楚的。于是，当他发兵的时候，他人还未到洛阳，已让人给姚兴送去了一份礼物。这份礼物成功让姚兴掀了桌子，因为……它是一条铁制裤衩。意思很明显：你爹为了驱我爹的好鬼魂，被兵器扎中了下半身，创伤感染去世了，我先送你一条铁裤衩，你总不会这麽稀里糊涂地死了？”"</p> <p>— 千里江风: <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/2030873" rel="nofollow">天幕剧透我谋朝篡位</a>, p. 41</p><p>此事在星露谷物语中亦有记载（并没有）</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/在读引用/" rel="tag">#在读引用</a> <a href="/tags/千里江风/" rel="tag">#千里江风</a></p>

千里江风: 天幕剧透我谋朝篡位 (EBook, 简体中文 language, 晋江文学城)

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<p>When we love someone, we may want to offer them unlimited, unending care and support. But sometimes, both we and they must accept that our support has to be from afar.</p><p><a href="/tags/alzheimers/" rel="tag">#Alzheimers</a> <a href="/tags/dementia/" rel="tag">#dementia</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a></p>

"You can love a person deeply and truly and still decide that doing so from a distance is best for your mental and emotional health." ~ Alex Elle

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<p>"Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris." ~ George Ayittey</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/springmelt/" rel="tag">#SpringMelt</a> <a href="/tags/bridge/" rel="tag">#bridge</a></p>

Thawing pond with a bit of ice cover remaining, some parts of which are supporting dried brown leaves. A wooden pedestrian bridge spans over the pond with leafless trees growing around it. A pale blue sky is visible through the bare branches and reflected in the melted portion of the water surface of the pond.

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<p>“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/compassion/" rel="tag">#compassion</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/waterway/" rel="tag">#waterway</a></p>

Brown decorative railing in the foreground of view of waterway with a reddish-brown metal bridge on stone pilings spanning it. The surface of the water is reflecting the green trees on the banks and sky above. There are more green trees beyond the bridge.

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<p>"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age." ~ Gloria Steinem</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/age/" rel="tag">#age</a> <a href="/tags/ivy/" rel="tag">#ivy</a></p>

Green ivy leaves and vines spill over a low stone wall of a planting bed with green lichen or moss growing on the top surface of the ledge around the edge. A few of the multi-lobed leaves have turned red. The stone bricks of the wall appear to be old and dark gray. The edge of the the paver path below has tiny green growth in the slightly muddy areas where the wall meets the ground.

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<p>"We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings." ~ John Trudell</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#plants</a></p>

Brown leafless stems supporting clusters of brown blooms from last year which have become seed pods having already opened. An evergreen in in the background.

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<p>The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~ Alice Walker</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/botanicalgardens/" rel="tag">#BotanicalGardens</a></p>

Tree branches with green leaves spread across the top of the view offering some shade to a paver patio area with a weathered wooden bench next to a container planting with large flower beds behind it. A paver path opens to a large lawn with vine covered pergolas in front of a building and tops of trees beyond.

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<p>“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” ~ Abraham Lincoln</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/nationalcrisis/" rel="tag">#NationalCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/facts/" rel="tag">#facts</a> <a href="/tags/gardenwalkway/" rel="tag">#GardenWalkway</a></p>

A paver pathway with a curve ahead covered in an extended pergola with metal beams overhead supported by stone pillars which are casting shadows on the walkway. There are urns with small evergreen plantings to the right side next to the stone columns with shadows of benches between the pillars. to the left of the pathway are garden beds with brown still dormant plants next to a lawn. The sky overhead is blue and cloudless.

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<p>“Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.” — Unknown</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a> <a href="/tags/bloomscrolling/" rel="tag">#BloomScrolling</a> <a href="/tags/flower/" rel="tag">#flower</a></p>

Purple multi-petal blooms with darker purple veining and light yellow centers along with the leaves and stems of their plant growing through a space between two weathered wood rails of the back of a bench.

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<p>"Let us bring equality, justice, and peace for all. Not just the politicians and the world leaders, we all need to contribute. Me. You. It is our duty." ~ Malala Yousafzai (Nobel Prize Winner 2014)</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/peace/" rel="tag">#peace</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a> <a href="/tags/blooms/" rel="tag">#blooms</a></p>

Brown stems and leaves supporting fuzzy cream colored deadheads of past growing season. The background is a blur of other plants and trees under a blue sky.

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<p>From the vault: 2019</p><p>Femi Kuti on the importance of protest music: "There will always be a fight, so that’s why it’s always important for music and the arts to be at the forefront of fighting this… If we don’t have our voices in the forefront of suppressing evil, then evil prevails.”</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#Quote</a> <a href="/tags/qotd/" rel="tag">#QOTD</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

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<p>“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/friendship/" rel="tag">#friendship</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

Wooden pergola entrance to the herbal garden of the local botanical gardens in the winter above a paver pathway leading to a short hedge lined bed with a metal and stone sundial in the middle of the bed. Small piles of snow dot cover the sides of the the path and some of the beds ahead. Tall green coniferous trees are in a line straight ahead in the distance. The low angle sunlight is lighting some of the trees, vegetation and posts of the pergola. A short purple pyramid shaped sign on the left in the foreground directs visitors to different parts of the gardens.

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<p>"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings." ~ Pema Chodron</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/suffering/" rel="tag">#suffering</a> <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a> <a href="/tags/bloomscrolling/" rel="tag">#BloomScrolling</a> <a href="/tags/roseofsharon/" rel="tag">#RoseOfSharon</a></p>

Close up of large pale pink with red transitioning to maroon toward the center of the blooms with ivory reproductive extensions covered with tiny spikes rising out of the center of the blooms.

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<p>"There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust." ~ Elsa Triolet</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/distrust/" rel="tag">#distrust</a> <a href="/tags/naturephotography/" rel="tag">#NaturePhotography</a></p>

Trees, bushes, grasses, and wildflowers in a mix of shade and sun.

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