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“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything w
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Overheard at @gardnermuseum: “All she did was collect beautiful art and talk to influential people. Goals.” Viva #IsabellaStewartGardner: Queen of aesthetic juxtaposition. #ITweetMuseums
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Just a small selection of the delightfully eccentric, eclectic signage around #NewOrleans.
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I love you very much, #NewOrleans. Even when I am traipsing through your pouring rain with soggy feet. Please tell me who was playing at @bjslounge in slide 5!!!!
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I'm teaching a short course online about one of my favorite topics: pirates and what we can learn from them for doing good work and making good trouble today. Registration deadline: Oct 10 (use code earlyTIMBERS for 10% if you register by ⭐️TODAY:sta
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The @teresita.fernandez/#RobertSmithson show at @sitesantafe is phenomenal! So many well spent minutes examining Fernández’s use of material and texture (who knew graphite could take you so far!) and her exploration of the @holtsmithsonfoundation archives
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These aren’t pictures of The Lightning Field. Unless pictures of the view shed are pictures of The Lightning Field. Or pictures of the wildlife (and their scat) are pictures of The Lightning Field. What a site. What a sight. What a perfectly constructed
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First stop en route to @diaartfoundation’s #TheLightningField was Pie Town, NM and @pieoneer_homestead for a full pie composed of 6 different individual slices that got demolished by 4 of us in quick order. Pie is never a bad idea!
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See you next year, #MooseheadLake. And welcome to the 3 weeks of “it’s still technically summer but Fall Vibes ™ are here and unstoppable”.
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Now that the hiking trip day-by-day is over, I’m shifting into the opposite mode: sitting on my butt at #MooseheadLake and reading all the books. This is my annual retreat from the internet time, so I’m deleting my social apps and I’ll be back in early Se
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Last day of this @thecoloradotrail trip want a hiking day but was a delightful day in Leadville. Breakfast with @jennifer_foley_ and her heroic hubby Phil, who drove all the way up from New Mexico to pick her up. We watched the start of the @boomdaysleadv
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We did it! Day 8 was a 10 mile day walking the last of segment 8 of @thecoloradotrail. Waterfall, aspen glades, picturesque pasturelands, and the only time I was up front to catch a picture of @jennifer_foley_ coming toward me! The trail part of this day
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Day 7 was my favorite day of my entire time on @thecoloradotrail. We hiked up out of the valley where we’d camped, past the envy-inducing Janet’s Cabin (where we could have booked beds in a spot with a roof, a composting toilet, and a sauna), and up over
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Day 6 was the day @jennifer_foley_ let me sleep in. It was our “easy” day of only going 6 miles after our big day yesterday. Turns out, departing around @coppermtn ski resort (where they were making snow! on August 1!!!) involved a lot of direct sun and a
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Day 5 on @thecoloradotrail was our toughest push. From Breckenridge, all the way up to the 12,500ft peaks looking down on it. 13.4 miles (the longest stretch I did in a single day) with some killer steep switchbacks that got me singing an affirmation song
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Day 4 was our zero day in Breckenridge. Very much like Aspen in many ways. We did laundry(!), ate food that we didn’t have to rehydrate(!!), offloaded some stuff we didn’t need (yay for lightening our packs), and picked up a few supplies we did. When the
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Day 3 on @thecoloradotrail bright is to the end of segment 6. A tough climb for me in the morning, some gorgeous wildflower meadows in the midday, and a sunbaked and dusty final few miles that culminated in a trickle of a stream and full exposure at our i
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Day 2 on @thecoloradotrail included baby’s first mountain pass above treeline and making it to the #ContinentalDivide. For the rest of our hiking, we’d be following signs for both the CT and the CDT (@cdtcoalition). Also featured is me just after gleefull
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Back from the incredible challenge and incredible experience that was 8 days on @thecoloradotrail with @jennifer_foley_. These are pics from Day 1: wildflower meadows galore; an ominously named creek where despite some filter snafus the water was cold and
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Gear and food for hitting @thecoloradotrail for a week with @jennifer_foley_. I’m going to bed tonight excited and nervous and reminding myself that my anxiety is a sign I care and that it is a feeling state that is here and will not always be here. :reli
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A beautiful view from my last training walk at sea level. This was 7 miles with a 30lb pack and tomorrow I’m off to Denver to acclimate to (some of) the altitude before hitting @thecoloradotrail for a week. Can’t say I mind having a week away from politic
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I love cemeteries just about anywhere, and I often take visitors to @townofconcordma to #SleepyHollowCemeteryConcord. This time around, I took @eloquentpie to the nearby #OldBuryingGround. Fewer historical celebrities but older tombs and tombstone symbols
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Trekking around miles and miles of trails and roads in 90+° high humidity with a 25 pound pack on is not exactly super fun. But I’m getting prepped for a big backpacking adventure on the Colorado Trail, and I can feel myself getting stronger. Plus there a
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What an inspiring joy to spend 48 hours in lovely San Diego facilitating for the @teensciencecafenetwork Community Gathering as part of the @girlsmoonshot celebration. So many clever and creative ways to get teens interested in ST(R)E(A)M careers were sha
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Blue things from a weekend in the burbs. And also the no horse riding sign that got Everything Everywhere All At Once’d. 💙
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What a delightful night at @decordova_museum learning about some of @theoldmanse_trustees fascinating ladies and the esoteric and fantastical ideas that inspired the fantastically esoteric @garygraham422. I can’t even count how many things he talked about
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Lovely bookends to the day brought to you by town life and @concordlibrary locations: 📚🎁 the library’s annual book sale (at which I bought the stack at the left, served as unofficial book concierge to send some of my fave book friends home with
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Tag yourself: I’m No boots to be worn in bed.
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Along with a refresh and a refocusing of my website comes a new deck of what I offer my clients. If you're following this account for art, museums, and adventures, that'll still be here. They're a big part of what inspires me to do the work I do, after al
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“I kept looking for something that was tactile. That I could feel... That I didn't have to wait for it to dry. That I didn't have to wait for it to cool off. That didn't stink. That wasn't toxic. That had light shooting through it ... That had an intrinsi
