Talking t-shirts.

Is it tee shirt or t-shirt? 

Whatever it is, it is fun to read what people put on them.

Kelly
Emily
Robin
Pam Check out britebluedot.com for some super tasteful stickers, t-shirts and hats.

Thoughts, dreams, pearls of wisdom, quotes, and whatever else we'd like to put out into the world this week.

Shared by Pamela:   Food for thought about the Black Lives Matter movement and ideas: One of the most common responses to "Black Lives Matter" is "all lives matter." But that response misses the point, as this great cartoon from Kris Straub at Chainsawsuitdemonstrates: Kris Straub/Chainsawsuit The point of Black Lives Matter isn't to suggest that black lives should be or are more important than all other lives, but instead that black people's lives are relatively undervalued in the US (and more likely to be ended by police), and the country needs to recognize that inequity to bring an end to it. Straub's cartoon echoes this point: If a house is burning down, you're obviously going to focus on putting out the fire instead of watering a house that's just fine. In this analogy, black lives are the burning house, and everyone else is living much more comfortably in the house that isn't burning down. Clearly, one is a bigger problem. Also, a good quote from a book I just finished: This is from Samantha Power's book, The Education of an Idealist, when she was working with the Russian UN ambassador. He shrugged and said, "I choose to be an optimist." I said I understood why, and quoted my favorite line from psychologist Amos Tversky, who said he preferred optimism because "as a pessimist, you suffer twice."

Shared by Robin: My favorite saying these days is “if you want to say yes say yes. If you want to say no say no.“ I thank Pam for that. But she thought I should maybe come up with a better one for the times and so in working on my scrapbook journal, I see a saying by Bryan Stevenson who wrote Just Mercy. He said “to change the world, we are going to have to do uncomfortable and inconvenient things.“  He said that at the Emory graduation keynote address.

Shared by Emily: "We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." -- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Shared by Kelly: "...if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game." Toni Morrison

Picture this.

This week is share your photography week.

Robiniski!

Fountain at Marietta Square.

Window shopper on the Marietta Square.

The falls at Letchworth Park, upper NY state.

Rock climbers on Devil's Tower, Wyoming,

Toccoa Triathlon, Blais was first.

Kellinski

Amazing family snapshot, @ Laura's wedding, Boston.

Water, still like glass.

Near Marfa, Texas.

Surprise snowfall gives Simon the zoomies.

Graving on a step at the Lincoln Memorial, D.C.

Paminski

My Mom, My Sisters, maybe 2017

Tongorriro Crossing, NZ North Island, 2019

Slot Canyon near Joshua Tree NP, 2018

Cumberland Island, 2019

Tundra in Tombstone NP, Yukon, 2019

Emminski

Callie's wedding,  St. Simons.

The fam together at Minihaha falls at Lake Rabun

Bumbee and Jack's first ride.

The view of a Kentucky field, through Bumbee's ears.

Jack and Jack on Mother's Day 2020.

We don't mask our feelings and neither should you.

The first week of June was mask week.

Kelly's was a nod to the places she's been lately.

Emily's, as well, are a nod to the local places and the people too.

Robin was thinking of current events as she designed and shared her mask.

Pamela also was thinking of sorrow-filled current events, hence the teardrop. But also there was hope, hence the feather. Create your own meaning for the milk jug.

A tidbit of Emily Dickinson support here: