mary & elizabeth

from a cycle of miniatures, possibly originally preceding a psalter, muri (?), first half of the 12th c.

source: Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 83, fol. 2r

Volchkova, Olga. St. Tea & St. Lemon. 2013.

Hellebores from last spring

still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

Eid Mubarak, I love you all, may we witness a free Palestine within our lifetimes inshallah

https://www.wlwt.com/article/fishers-colonizing-ohio-after-being-eradicated-from-state/60117483

https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-ODNR/news/biologists-find-potential-evidence-of-reproduction-of-fishers-in-ohio#:~:text=A%20fisher%20is%20a%20forest,day%20fisher%20sighting%20was%20confirmed

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife confirmed that a female fisher, a mammal that was collected as roadkill in Ashtabula County in February 2023, was pregnant. Although that fisher did not successfully give birth, the results are a sign that fishers are returning to Ohio.

A fisher is a forest-dwelling carnivorous mammal in the weasel family. Fishers were extirpated from Ohio in the mid-1800s. In 2013, Ohio’s first modern-day fisher sighting was confirmed. Since then, there have been 40 confirmed fisher observations across nine northeast Ohio counties (Ashtabula, Columbiana, Geauga, Trumbull, Mahoning, Lake, Jefferson, Harrison, and Tuscarawas). Two-thirds of those sightings occurred in the last three years. Fishers are moving westward from established populations in Pennsylvania and naturally coming back to Ohio.

Fishers, such as the one here on a trail camera, have been confirmed in nine northeast Ohio counties through verified sightings. The fisher is a medium-sized mammal related to river otters and weasels.

sunlight

no time off from school + monday exam + partner's birthday + 8hrs of driving + inertia = i didn't do a single thing for easter. not holy week, church, prayer, candy, baking, eggs, getting switched....it feels lonely! the change of seasons is all wrong without it. like i missed a step going down stairs

Gold pendant with chalcedony cameo of the Virgin Mary, Byzantine, circa 900 AD

from The Walters Art Museum

from "folk iconography of middle naddniprianshchyna in 18-20th century"

Bison. Corporate environmentalism. The greenwashing of bison meat products. Decolonization on the prairies and multispecies relations. The “authenticity” of food. Indigenous resistance to “cattle empires.” Obscuring histories of violence and ongoing nationalist appropriation of environmental rhetoric by claiming bison as a national emblem, as in 2016 with the US’s official declaration of bison as “national mammal.” Invoking “conservation” to create a narrative of redemption for a nation. “US historical and environmental discourses transform the bison from a site of imperial violence and ecological destruction into a symbol of American exceptionalism and sustainability.” [Excerpts from: John Levi Bernard. “The Bison and the Cow: Food, Empire, Extinction.” American Quarterly. 2020.]

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