Miesha

12/30/2025

Leave some of the yard for our birdies 💗💗💗💗💗

Birds don't just need food in winter—they need places to escape wind and conserve body heat. A single cold night without shelter can be fatal. Here's what to leave standing in your yard through spring:

1. Dead Flower Stalks
• Hollow stems trap warm air pockets
• Use: chickadees, wrens roost inside
• Leave: coneflowers, sunflowers, black-eyed Susans

2. Brush Piles
• Layered branches block wind, hold heat
• Use: sparrows, juncos huddle in centers
• Leave: pruned limbs stacked loosely near hedges

3. Unmowed Grass Patches
• Dense tufts create insulated hideouts
• Use: towhees, song sparrows nestle at base
• Leave: corner sections, fence lines unmowed

4. Evergreen Shrubs
• Year-round foliage shields from snow and wind
• Use: cardinals, finches roost on inner branches
• Leave: native juniper, holly, arborvitae unpruned

A tidy yard is a death trap. What looks messy to you is survival architecture to them. ❄️🏠

12/07/2025

The Horse Who Remembered the Wind

They say the horse was not given to the people
it returned to them.
Born of the prairie’s breath,
it carried in its bones the memory of grass
before the rivers changed their beds,
before the mountains carried names.

When the first rider placed a hand on its mane,
he felt not power,
but an old story humming:
the wind that had crossed deserts,
the thunder that had split the plains,
the whisper of stars that knew no borders.

The horse was not merely a companion in war
it was a teacher of silence,
of rhythm,
of how the body could move as one with the land.

Sometimes, at dusk,
if you listen closely,
you will hear them
herds running with no riders,
hooves beating not for battle,
but for memory.
They are the wind reminding us:
the land was never conquered,
only borrowed.

The people call them brothers,
but perhaps they are more
keepers of a covenant,
spirits that carried us
not into war alone,
but back to ourselves.

(Art by Serin Alar)

🖊️Poem: Piahn

12/02/2025

🌕✨ December 3 — The Moon Meets the Seven Sisters ✨🌌

On December 3, 2025, the nearly full Moon (99% illuminated) will rise beside one of the night sky’s most beloved treasures — the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. A golden Moon glowing above the mountains, an observatory dome watching from below, and the icy-blue star cluster shimmering nearby… it’s a celestial scene worthy of a painting.

🌙 A Rare Occultation

For millions of skywatchers across North America, Europe, and northern Africa, this isn’t just a close pass — it’s a lunar occultation.
The Moon will glide directly in front of the Pleiades, briefly hiding several of its brightest stars:

• Electra
• Merope
• Maia
• Alcyone

From cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Moon will pass right through the heart of the cluster, making stars blink out and reappear at its shadowed edge.
Binoculars will help you catch these disappearances despite the Moon’s strong glare.

🌌 The Seven Sisters

The Pleiades lie 444 light-years away in Ta**us — a young cluster of hot blue stars known across countless cultures for thousands of years. Though called the “Seven Sisters,” the cluster contains over a thousand stars, with only six or seven visible without equipment.

✨ Don’t Miss This Cosmic Meeting

Whether you’re inside or outside the occultation zone, step outside after dark and look to the eastern sky.
The Moon and the Pleiades rising together is one of the most beautiful sights of the entire year — a moment where lunar brilliance meets ancient starlight.

A dance of gold and blue, written across the December sky. 🌙💫

11/14/2025

Giving back 🎄 is important! Today I am at a Senior Support Center. We are drawing, painting and having a good time 🎨❤️ - support and love your community elders!!

11/12/2025

Pray for Earth 🙏❤️
Stay grounded y’all. Love you 🙏❤️

EARTH IS BEING ROCKED — AND EVERY LIVING THING CAN FEEL IT. ⚡
A G4 geomagnetic storm is in full swing — the Kp Index just hit 9, one of the highest levels on record.
The planet’s magnetic field is under extreme stress, and the auroral oval is lighting up the entire northern hemisphere.

When storms like this hit, the energy doesn’t just stay in the sky — it ripples through everything connected to Earth’s field, including us.

🌎 You may feel it as:
– pressure in the head or ears
– sudden waves of fatigue or energy
– anxiety, restlessness, or vivid dreams
– sleep disruption or heart palpitations

Animals often react too — birds flying erratically, pets acting anxious, wildlife disoriented.
They sense the magnetic shift before we even realize it’s happening.

This is more than space weather — it’s planetary resonance.
Stay grounded. Breathe. The Earth’s frequency is surging tonight.

11/11/2025

✨❤️✨

I Will Forever Whisper Your Name to the Night Sky

I will forever whisper your name
to the night sky,
as if the stars themselves might carry it
to where you are.

Each syllable a tremor,
each breath a bridge
between this trembling earth
and a world beyond my reach.

I wait for the wind’s reply,
a soft stirring in the dark,
the kind of silence
that feels like an answer.

You are gone,
yet the air still knows your shape,
the world still bends
around the space you left behind.

Because some loves
do not end.
They linger tenderly
in the spaces between heartbeats.

And I,
I will forever whisper your name
to the night sky,
and know
you will whisper back.

~ 'I Will Forever Whisper Your Name to the Night Sky' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Jungsuk Lee

11/02/2025

11/01/2025

🎉👏❤️

Happy 111 day ✨💛

10/30/2025

The Turtle Theory by Thriving Studio:

The turtle never hurries.
It moves with quiet certainty —
one step, one breath, one moment at a time.
That’s the Turtle Theory.
You don’t need speed to make progress.
You need direction, patience, and consistency.
Because rushing leads to burnout.
But steady effort builds strength.
Every small movement counts —
even when it feels too slow to matter.
Keep moving.
Not fast.
Just forward.

Prayers for Turtle Island by Jackie Traverse

10/28/2025

“May you know that absence is alive with hidden presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.

May the absences in your life grow full of eternal echo.

May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere where the presences that have left you dwell.”

~ John O’Donohue
Excerpt from the blessing, “For Absence”

Art: Lily Seika Jones, “Thicket”
Lily Seika Jones Artwork