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Connector | seeker | traveler | adjunct Trinity U & GWU | Small biz owner | 🌮📸 | amateur photog
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Life is too short to pass a cafe without stopping in for a ham & cheese croissant. 🥐 Yesterday was a cheese danish. 🇩🇰 Wonder what tomorrow will bring. Maybe a croque madame. 🇫🇷 This is how I stay the skinny cow's favorite parent. 😍🐄

Military City, USA was the largest city in the nation without a direct flight to DC — but not after tomorrow’s inaugural flight! ✈️ After years of effort, it’s perfect timing. The Greater San Antonio Chamber’s annual SA to DC trip begins this week!

#STL Call for action 2/27 @ Wash U - help preserve data library.wustl.edu/events/data-...

Mighty Miss at Chain of Rocks today

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Not surprising but troubling as a small women-owned business: “The cancellations listed come disproportionately from businesses run by women and people from minority groups.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

"There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed." - Robert F Kennedy (quoted by Kerry Kennedy as the NPS tries to erase transgender history)

The Mississippi … #NOLA #MardiGras

Devastating for our Missouri institutions: Trump’s NIH funding cut temporarily blocked, but not in MO www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...

that’s right.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Notable/Quotable: “Let the judgments of others be the consequence of your deeds, not their purpose.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

@amtrak.com Your trains are the best way to go! Kirkwood, MO to KC!

The joy of the day… Bowood brunch with a loved one…

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Chicago honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great idea…. www.businessinsider.com/amtrak-winte...

Good morning, SATX!

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Words matter. I love this collage by artist Lynn Giunta. 💕 🌷

For those who currently work in the sport for good space or are looking to transition into this field, consider registering for the George Washington U. Sports Philanthropy Executive Certificate Program. Apps for the Spring 25 Cohort due 2/1. To learn more visit go.gwu.edu/sportsphilanthropy

President Jimmy Carter’s memorial service was today at the National Cathedral near where I live in DC. This seems like an apt quote when I think about his amazing legacy. We should all live our lives like this.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

STL sky pre storm…

@josh-kaplan.bsky.social Incredible story, Josh.

@lacouvee.bsky.social Thanks for follow, you live in a lovely part of the world!

An obituary for Jimmy Carter by the @nsarchive.bsky.social, complete with declassified national security documents that reveal tough-minded, detail-oriented president: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo... RIP

Honest. Decent. Principled. A Lifetime of Selfless Service. #ThankYouJimmyCarter 🙏

Just mountains…

Patty Prewitt, whose case I made a documentary about in 2020, has been freed from prison. Gov. Mike Parson commuted her sentence today. In shock and overjoyed. askfilmproductions.vhx.tv

Game changer program for me - 9 months of experience in all sectors = 25 years of experience and what I still use as a foundation. Applications for STL program due: 1/12/25 www.corofellowship.org Centers also in NYC, SF, LA, Pittsburgh. Please share!

#Pisces 🖤 #horoscope #asrtrology #zodiac #tarot

@chadhuber.bsky.social I love your cookies!!!

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.” – Jane Austen

Laumeier Sculpture Park #STL ….

Two days. Two paths.

Basic economics - buckle up: finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart...

Never gets old. #Grateful

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Two days until Winterfest opens, this year with a new attraction. Gateway Arch Park Foundation has teamed up with UKRAFT on 'The Lodge at Winterfest', a winter retreat in the heart of Downtown. Spiced cider, mulled wine and hot cocoa abound. www.archpark.org/events/the-l...

Work retreat earlier this week - this never gets old… @officialnps.bsky.social #SayYestoStLouis