Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025If you don’t like what is happening, please participate in a march /protest near you. Evanston’s Indivisible is gathering at Fountain Square on Thursday at 4pm. Hope to see you there. 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. - Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum Happy Easter 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 19/04/2025First gardenia of the season A gift ….”through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present” Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass 080 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025“This little light of mine, I’m gonna make it shine.” 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A beautiful bouquet of flowers arrived on my doorstep this morning. An unexpected thank you. What could be better? Of course I took out my camera! Flowers are unparalleled delights! 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The mind is like the ocean. And deep in this ocean, beneath the surface, it’s calm and clear. And no matter what the surface conditions are, whether it’s flat or choppy or even a full gale storm, deep in the ocean it’s tranquil and serene. – Dan Siegel, MD ~ The Mindful Brain 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe,” Albert Einstein Thank you to all the incredible musicians of New Orleans and beyond, who created an uplifting French Quarter Fest celebrating our shared humanity. Music cuts through everything. 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Music is my medicine. @therealjohnboutte at French Quarter Fest. Soothes the soul. 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Luxuriating with my morning coffee and oatmeal on this beautiful day. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. I went to see Hamilton again last night. What a brilliant play. Watching it with the lens of the current events was a new experience, for sure. 020 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The prompt was blooms / blossoms. I attended my first Moth Story Slam last night and it was incredibly inspiring. “The Moth’s mission is to promote storytelling and to honor and celebrate the diversity and commonality of human experience.” The next Moth event in Nola is In June at Cafe Istanbul. 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025“In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, some portion of its lost heart.” ~ Louise Bogan 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Just to be clear, today we are marching BECAUSE we love our country. We are going in peace and will not be deterred. “Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?” - Cory Booker 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Praying for peace. I have my folded origami cranes ready to pass out at the Hands Off Mass Mobilization March tomorrow, Saturday April 2 at 2pm. If you don’t like what’s happening, please show up. “The power of the people is greater than the people in power... “ -Cory Booker 121 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Today I was talking on the phone with my daughter while pulling up an occasional weed in my backyard when I discovered EIGHT (8) monarch caterpillars on the swamp milkweed plant! 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025“You can’t lead the people if you can’t love the people.” - Cory Booker 022 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Staying internally grounded and centered has never been more important. I attended the New Orleans Book Festival yesterday. So inspired. The interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was fabulous. Many talks over subscribed /all available on the New Orleans Book Festival You Tube. 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Beauty in all stages of life. I’m inspired by fellow artists sharing beautiful work in these toxic times, providing a tonic for the soul. 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Sometimes I just need to pull back to get another perspective. James Nestor’s book-Breath: “A last word on slow breathing. It goes by another name: prayer.“ 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Went to a fabulous screening last night on a film 12 years in the making, Free for All: The Public Library. It was so well done and timely. The nationwide release is scheduled for April 29 at 9pm on PBS nationwide. Don’t miss it. It is about our collective history. 041 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025My best defense against dysregulation is my breath. I’m reading James Nestor’s book, Breath, and am realizing like Dorthy in the Wizard of Oz, I always had it with me! 020 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Sometimes I think I’m living in a dream. Yesterday’s walk along the mighty Mississippi. 060 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Utterly perfect… I checked on her throughout the night but “the clouds got in my way.” Who doesn’t love the moon. Such a constant reassuring presence. 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower, there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.” - Matsuo Basho, 17th-Century Japanese Haiku Master Look up! A full blood worm arrives with a lunar eclipse tonight, offering another perspective on our lives. Worth contemplating…. 020 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I wake to birdsong. “Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” - Terry Tempest Williams 140 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Trying to stay balanced and incline my mind toward wellbeing. I so appreciate everyday that I can greet the new day. Gratitude plays a big role providing a container for these troubling times. I’m grateful for the timelessness of Buddhist teachings. They have provided me with an invaluable roadmap. 190 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I made this image 15 years ago after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 050 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Tomorrow, Friday March 7 from 2-4 pm, learn how to fold an origami crane. DM for address(in New Orleans). According to Japanese legend, if a sick person folds 1,000 paper cranes, then that person would soon get well. I’m doing it for the healing of my country. Please join me. 080 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Mardi Gras Day 2025. A community coming together in love and creativity. Just spectacular 💜💛💚 020 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Happy Mardi Gras Y’All! Here is to Peace, Love, Hope and Healing❤️💫❤️ 050 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The city is electric. If you want to tap into some of the joy, just tune into WWOZ (90.7 FM). We all need a little merrymaking. 181 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025How much do I love New Orleans? Let me count the ways. 020 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I partook in a deeply moving ceremony of legacy & resilience at the historical Whitney Plantation yesterday.We moved thru the plantation blessing and acknowledging the past, present and future. It has never been more important 2 acknowledge where we have been as a nation and where we are headed. 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Everyday I discover the changing reflection of daylight on this handmade Japanese umbrella. Our Town by Thornton Wilder: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it — every, every minute?” 080 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025A painter’s palette, almost as beautiful as the painting! I ❤️ art and artists! 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Doing whatever it takes to create light in the darkness. “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Who doesn’t need a little magical realism these days…. “Feet, What Do I Need You For When I Have Wings to Fly.” -Frida Kahlo 030 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025A bouquet of camellias for me, for you, for us. 010 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025A Presidents’ day like no other. Unhappy about the current events? Time to Show Up Monday, Feb 17, 2025 12pm - 2pm CST Lafayette Square, S Maestri St, New Orleans 031 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025“The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Hopi Elders' Prophecy, June 8, 2000 www.awakin.org/2/read/view.... 040 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025After canvassing in Wisconsin last fall I stopped by the Chicago Botanic Gardens and saw their bonsai collection. My heart rate slowed and I was mesmerized. Yesterday I treated myself to 3 “starter” bonsai trees. It seemed like a better choice than getting a pet. Howard loved bonsai. 0120 0
Jane Fulton Alt @janefultonalt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025What a great Valentine’s day surprise! I received this beautiful hand painted Valentine from my friends Billy Drake and Joanne Carney. I may just need to frame it❤️ 060 0
