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cjdraper.bsky.social
Chemist, Biologist, Diver, Dancer, Photographer, Poet, Nerd
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Sharing for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #Vibrant Tisha Mark ©2024, Sunset on Opening Day, oil on linen, 20”x20” Available with maple frame: tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #ArtShop #ArtCollector

Thank you for keeping the ants out of my mailbox, sir 🌿

Body Scan with Liquid Sunlight This meditation uses liquid sunlight as a visualization for warming and clarifying the mind and body. If you would like to hear this full meditation or other meditation offerings, please go to: YouTube Link: youtu.be/nx-kVTOzKJY #meditation, #mindfulmoment

Body Scan with Liquid Sunlight This meditation uses liquid sunlight as a visualization for warming and clarifying the mind and body. If you would like to hear this full meditation or other meditation offerings, please go to: YouTube Link: youtu.be/nx-kVTOzKJY #meditation, #mindfulmoment

Angel? Spent some time with Forster’s terns last weekend. Incredible aerial acrobats #birds

Took this photo tonight at a Patrick Fiori concert. Is it just me or does it look like a crowd of people boarding a spaceship together? 😅

The Earth doesn’t “go around the Sun” the Earth goes in a straight line through an area of spacetime that bends around the Sun and I think that’s neat.

Best band name for these goats? Current winner: Bleat It and Weep. Winner receives lifetime supply of imaginary grass and backstage passes to their next silent pasture tour.

Making Room for Gratitude This meditation focuses on the positive effects that gratitude has on the nervous system in relieving stress. If you would like to hear this full meditation or other meditation offerings, please go to: youtu.be/063ZkNe2AVU #meditation #mindfulmoment #mindfulmeditation

Cultivating Compassionate Self-care This meditation uses the breath, visualization and touch for providing compassionate self-care and extending it out to others. If you would like to hear this full meditation, please go to: youtu.be/HeS5orNLZS8 #meditation, #mindfulmoment, #mindfulmeditation

Riding the Wave of Emotion Emotions come and go like waves. Using a mindfulness practice, you can learn to acknowledge these emotions, calm your nervous system and ride these waves of emotions, safely to shore. To Access the meditation please go to: youtu.be/yjnnKjz2uWo #meditation, #mindfulness

Visualizing Stress as a Storm This visualization meditation is designed to help you through high amounts of stress. To Access the meditation please go to: youtu.be/Jc21jsRbzks #meditation, #mindfulmoment, #mindfulmeditation

#astrophotography

I served for the past few years on the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors to advise ORD. Gutting ORD would be an unmitigated disaster for EPA and all of us who want to breathe clean air and drink clean water. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

Today's Feature: war cemetery ... a long shadow limping behind him Chen-ou Liu Paper Wasp, 19:1, Autumn 2013

NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu @ ericcoliu 'snow geese unzip the morning sky my journey starts' **** William Garnett - Snow Geese with Reflection of the Sun over Buena Vista Lake, California, 1953. Source: phillips. com

waking yet not waking ... this silent heart-to-heart with my late father -Chen-ou Liu via @tinywords https://tinywords.com/2023/11/15/39702/

Astronomer Caroline Herschel was born #OTD in 1750. She discovered and catalogued a wealth of comets, stars, and nebulae. Along with Mary Somerville, she was the first woman elected to the Royal Astronomical Society. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬 Image: Artist's impression of a young Caroline Herschel. Lisa Rosowsky / CfA

Haiku winners up. Always a Thursday highlight. Planet poets rock. #LPSCHaiku #LPSC2025

My favorite thing is when the sun hits the #reeds just right and makes them look like glitter #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #nature #photography

Japanese master Kawase Hasui concentrates on the effects of moonlight in this woodblock print of a peaceful night at Lake Hachirogata. Akita (1927)

Spring days

Me to myself: This is annoying. This conversation is annoying, this person is annoying. I hope I’m hiding it well. My face:

When I was diagnosed with a mysterious cancer in my central nervous system- I had one professional regret: I wished that I had spent my professional life helping people feel brave instead of safe. I’ve been focused on that ever since.

#cats

Last day on the #7syllablesentence turntables. Keep an eye out for your next host @jannekedebeer.bsky.social who is guiding the spirits 3/15-21 Thanks to @poetguygabe.bsky.social for the chance, thks to all of you for the great material! Ear #ache? But why no ‘spleen-ache’? Mysteries abound

Good evening, etc. the #7syllablesentence prompt for 3/13 is #add as in Add anxiety to taste. Seriously, as much as you like!

#Add ‘em up: there are four lights! #7syllablesentence #startrek

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple” Jack Kerouac

Original: ‘Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.’ Rewrite: ‘Rosalind Franklin successfully retrieved images of the structure of DNA, an idea posited by Maurice Wilkins. Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins got a Nobel Prize.’

This is Tellen. She went to work with her human today. The only agenda item on her calendar is dropping toys in the hallway until someone plays with her. 14/10

This is phenomenal geology humor (full video at www.instagram.com/reel/DHHL3fI...)

golden hour a hint of jasmine in the air #HaikuChallenge

Timeline cleanse. Look at this beautiful beast! Just look at her!

Heya! The #7syllablesentence prompt for 3/12 is #air as in Air Supply: All Out of Love Soft rock for the people! youtu.be/JWdZEumNRmI?...

Hi! The #7syllablesentence prompt for 3/11 is #all All bone and gristle, no meat. Enjoy!

Nearly full Moon so I thought I’d attempt my first globular cluster, M3. #astrophotography #seestar #seestars50 #m3

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

haven’t bread posted in awhile

I keep finding maps but I don't know where they lead. #leaves #fungifriends #macromonday #forest #photography #eastcoastkin