#SilentSunsday #Photography #BloomScrollingWithoutAI #BloomScrolling

#SilentSunday

#SilentSunsday #CatsOfMastondon

I just discovered that the Japanese have this great word, Nagori. [Edited to correct spelling.]

Nagori is savouring what you know to be ending.

It's dancing to the final song at a wedding. It's waking up in your childhood bed for the last time before heading to college. It's looking at the mess of wraping paper the children left Christmas morning before going to the kitchen for breakfast.

I never realized it before but my joy at seeing the thunderstorms that mark the end of the summer where I live is Nagori. The night temperatures cause the need for a light jacket. Things change and some anxious trees put a pop of fall color into their canopy at this time too. It's the final days of summer and I love this time, and the memory of what summer was for the year.

May you have a lovely experience with nagori as well. Savor the changes in your life and enjoy the moments before they end.

Peace.

No matter which state in the USA you live, go and check your voter registration. Do it now.

For Texas you have until Oct 2nd to register for the upcoming midterms. I'm only assuming it's the same for everyone else.

Then make a plan.

For my state (edit: in New England) early voting happens the week before November. I'm lucky too in that I can vote at any of the polling places. If I wait until election day I must vote at the polling place designated for me.

It's likely different where you are. Search and find out.

You get extra street cred if you invite friends to go to the polling place with you.

#DollyParton #925 #SeptemberTwentyFifth

I've been seeing much talk about making 9/25 a day to remember Dolly Parton, but I haven't seen much more than that.

I can't be the only one who thinks it would also be a great day to remember our commitment to community and each other in her memory. Give the gift of a book to someone. Clean up your book collection and take some to a neighbor's free library. Donate money to a food bank. Look up an organization where you can volunteer some time to. Etc.

We do have a September 25th fast approaching. I plan to do a little of each.

I love the fact that Mastodon just works in your phone's browser. I mention this because Tusky is having issues logging me into my new instance. :(

Maybe it's time to try a new Mastodon app? Or is it a problem with my account being too new on this instance?

I'm excited to discover the answers! App search is underway. It's been a long time since I tried anything but Tusky.

Hmm. I seem to have trouble moving followers from my old account at toot.community or in making an alias here to help move them.

Must be something set up over at the old instance preventing it maybe?

The old instance is https://toot.community/@MyWoolyMastadon. It's probably my understanding of the syntax I need?

#Introduction

I jut moved from toot.community over here. I'm more of a booster than content creator. I enjoy #art, #FountainPens, #bicycles, #satire, #TheOutdoors, riffing on the Orange Cheeto, #science, #cats, #culture at large, and the world in general.

I believe we're here for more than pulling down a paycheck. Our lives need to give back in some way to future generations and those currently around us. How to do that is a discovery I'm currently on.

Oh, damn. I have more than a 500 character limit on this instance. This could be bad news for my tendency to ramble and be too wordy.

I hearby promise to keep my thoughts to a respectable length, like the {CHAUCER} CANTERBURY TALES.

(Edit corrected the title.)