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How to Avoid Spreading Fake News

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This is a great primer on how to check out information before sharing it. It starts out talking about a program to teach kids how to do so but then goes on to give great advice on where to go to check out stories before we repost them. We all need to learn how to do this. It includes easy ways to check out what the real source is of a story, how to learn which sites are just impersonating valid news sites, how to use reverse Google photo searches and a list of the four best sites to go to to fact check: Snopes, factcheck.com and politifact–as well as Wikipedia to check out background information before using one of the other sites. This video is a bit long but contains really valuable information all in one spot.  Take notes and tape them to your desk or device. Help stop fake news and propaganda in its tracks!!!

Pull Up A Seat

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For the Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge.

Close Neighbors

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Indian Shot and Jade plants

For Cee’s FOTD

Cloud Studies

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After an overcast period, the sun came out a bit and the sky suddenly became vibrant.
Click on photos to enlarge view.

For Nadia Marrill’s “Anything” Photo Prompt.

“Add An Element of Nature”

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The little headdress is composed of the feathers of birds that my cats have regrettably brought to me as offerings. This little shrine honors their too-brief lives and reminds me to be prompt in my feedings.
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Pasiano and I are trying to add more elements of nature to the empty lot next to us. We’ll add more once I get it fenced off from marauding cows!!

Click on photos to enlarge and read explanations.

 

For this prompt of Cee’s: https://ceenphotography.com/2020/06/17/on-the-hunt-for-joy-challenge-week-24-add-an-element-of-nature/

Anthuriums: FOTD June 18, 2020

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Taken at my friend Margaret’s house.

For Cee’s FOTD

Crystal and Amber

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Crystal and Amber
(For Anmol)

Angel, wherever you fly, may you have a charmed life.
May the scroll of your life coil without kink,
your totems protect you from the cruel wrinkles of life
and those unenlightened creatures who inhabit them.

May you be you without subterfuge.
May you expose your polka dots, no matter how flamboyant.
May the keys you possess open the doors where you want to go
and the scent of your spirit waft out on a welcome breeze.

What is key in you—let it write your story,
and let the stone you were born to guide your way.
Patience. Wisdom. Balance.
Bring to the world what it needs more of.

The part of the world that knows it needs you
prays to whatever God it can believe in
that you be met with
an open hand.

I wrote this poem using the symbolism of this necklace that I made a few years ago. It was written in response to Anmol’s prompt which invites us to write a poem about pride, gender fluidity, sexuality, protest, et al. or to write about the continuing fight for equality and the realization of the aspirations of the marginalised communities.For dVerse Poets

After Two and a Half Months, Finally Finished!!!

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After 2½ months, the murals that Jesus Lopez Vega and son Eduardo have been painting on the outside of my house and studio are finally finished. Forgottenman asked to see the total results, so I’m sharing them with you as well. If you are interested in seeing more of his work, look at the gallery of previous work I have bought from him below and also see his website at: arteajijic.net. (More contact info below.)

(Please note that there are two separate galleries.
In both you can Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.)

Streetside entrance.
Murals above my bedroom.
Above studio door.
Street side of studio.
South side of studio.

When Bob and I bought our house in 2001, the first thing we did was to go out and buy one of Jesus’ paintings in a local gallery. Here is that and other paintings I’ve bought from him over the years and other mural work he’s done in my house:

The inside of my street entrance door, with pedestals that once held two large Precolumbian replicas of a man and a woman that Bob went out and bought in an antique store while I was waiting to sign the papers to buy the house. Both since tipped over by the kittens now turned cats–and turned into flower pots. ( The remaining parts of the sculptures, not the cats!)
Pedestal detail.
Other pedestal.
My garage door with embellishments by Jesus.
The ugly electrical post by the garage, made more beautiful by Jesus and Eduardo.
My house’s front door.
And this is one I bought a few months later when I moved to Mexico.
A Huichol motif
This is actually the etching plate of one of Jesus’ limited editions that I bought and asked him to paint as though it was one of the etchings.

If you want to contact Jesus about custom projects or to view his gallery, here is contact information:

Five Bombshells about Trump in Bolton’s Book

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https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/06/17/five-bomshells-about-trump-in-boltons-book/?fbclid=IwAR2s3y85qKZntRGa6Ve3lTYlMSuMkVXq47nkLSegiDi-5ozDTTeB_WC4QEI

The Politicizing of the Coronavirus (Reblog of Thom Hartmann Article on Common Dreams)

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To read more click on link below:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/16/what-should-punishment-be-crime-weaponizing-virus-political-purposes?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR35r231ItrqBpWiGoUmPh8lVgqSBxQXw5QcO3VEKpEb56asta0pfL0qHGc