Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 23h"The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind ... The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what’s going on in the picture. Nota bene: It tells you. You don’t tell it." 000
Reposted by Northwest WindCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Preening Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1995 025465
Reposted by Northwest Windashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/10/2026when something scary happens to ilhan i think about this photo. you’d never know from how brave she is that she isn’t seven feet tall. we’ve all got to have her back, because she isn’t just some character on capitol hill, she’s a real human, with real children, who deserves to be safe in her home. 151579176
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026“My students had every reason to give up. But they were determined to make the most of the education they were offered, and our dedicated faculty were committed to helping them do that.” www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024... 🧵 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I hope to visit soon! 🖋️📚🪶❤️ “Through her work, she strives to create spaces where Indigenous knowledge is honored, children feel seen, and future generations remain connected to their roots.” sahaptinstories.com/about-sahapt... 020
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"Why have warnings of the imperative to relearn arts of coexistence, which allowed past populations to prosper for millennia alongside nonhuman creatures of all kinds, apparently fallen on deaf ears?" Tim Ingold on the "ethos of coexistence." Open access: doi.org/10.1177/0963... 010
Reposted by Northwest WindGeorgina Kent @georginadoodles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In case you haven't noticed, I quite like Autumn 🍂 #autumn #watercolours #birdart 🪶 76410
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“'It’s my favorite thing,' said Frye, who grew up in Hawaii and sometimes feels homesick. 'When we come out here, it’s almost like we’re back home for a minute. We’re around people that understand us.'" HT @magiccanoe.bsky.socialopb.orgHawaiians nurture community by harvesting kalo in the Pacific NorthwestGrowing kalo feeds families while helping them learn Hawaiian words and cultural practices around the native plant. 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“I speak up. I speak out.” - Ada Deer www.uwalumni.com/news/forging... 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026nice! “the author was in Iceland ‘listening to the wind’” … apnews.com/article/nobe... 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“America was … ... coincides with a dramatic narrowing of nat'l possibility under the ever-increasing pressure of capitalism, the policy of socialism for corporations and austerity for citizens, and most specifically, the defunding of culture, including art as well as science and public education.” 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And “agriculture” (as always) is in the eyes of the beholder. One amazing example below of an estuary in management, long term natural balance, and production. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the description, exhibit seems equally situated in French and First Nations cultures. Such a beautiful video of transformation mask. They couldn’t resist reference to Boas, Lévi Strauss, Max Ernst and André Breton (French heritage and First Nations). www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitio... 220
Reposted by Northwest WindNicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Are we going to get some North American vagrants in Nuuk with this weather 🤞 The winds look right for birds to blow from Canada across the Davis straight to Greenland 🪶 0111
Reposted by Northwest WindJohn Walker @earthfgardener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A gentle and spectacular start to autumn for cosmos. Don’t stop dead-heading🙂 002
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What a beautiful reflection and memorial. "Tlingit elder George Bennett ... spoke about the importance of healing through culture and said treating loved ones well was like 'medicine to your soul'." 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026October 01, 2026 ... Soldagen at the observatory. A classic motif to any polar thriller ... and the observatory's excellent weekly blog posts.icecube.wisc.eduWeek 39 at the PoleThere it is! The sun, that is—a thin sliver on the horizon, but orange and bright and lighting up the sky above it. It’s of course a welcome sight after a long polar night. (Ok, there won’t be auroras... 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We don’t normally think of “seeing” as a learned process. But as anybody who has had a multifocal lens prescription can tell you, seeing is very much an adaptive and neurological process. And as with the mind … everything else is also involved (language, culture, habits, institutions, etc.). 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Johns’s paintings offer no ostensible clues as to their meaning, suggesting that they exist to instruct the viewer on what a painting is and how its elements might be negotiated: the way form is addressed; how ‘looking’ works.” HT @vancemaverick.bsky.social 110
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We used to call it "cybernetics." A term covering human interaction with machine, self-reinforcing feedback loops, control, and regulation. But also disengagement from messy bio processes and sticky connections with the planet. “We’re creating a world that’s fit only for something artificial.”nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time. 101
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Who doesn’t want to be a flock of birds someday?” 010
Reposted by Northwest WindErik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Picked a good day for a quick reporting trip in northern Vermont 0102
Reposted by Northwest WindAnnaLois @annalois36.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the first photograph I've seen for #ForestFriday of a Kenyan forest with my two favourite animals 🦒🦓. Thanks for sharing @ mvinuesa.bsky.social 4363
Reposted by Northwest WindTibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed." — Charlotte Brontë, Evening Solace, 1846 Turkish classical violinist Ceren Türkmenoğlu performs II. Malinconia, Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata for Violin No. 2, composed in 1923. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 3329
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Draws on a rather interesting open source EEG study of creative flow among jazz improvisers: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Suggests creativity is largely a process anchored in the non-conscious mind (as a product of habit), and less a product of intent (or executive function). 001
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Big Sweep … inspired by “vast prairies, bright light and scouring winds.” www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/19... 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gorgeous. Patti Smith reads from her retrospective on John Coltrane published in "Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend." And if that wasn't enough ... "Below is a nice piece to listen to as the leaves slowly turn to an autumnal gold." 001
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026All roads lead to Annie Lake, YT. What a fantastic series! bsky.app/profile/pete... 121
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Thomas Hardy once listened to a thrush singing against a bleak winter landscape and wondered whether it knew of 'some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware'." 031
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Halley ... used Newton's law of universal gravitation to compute the periodicity of Halley's Comet in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. It was named after him upon its predicted return in 1758, which he did not live to see." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_... HT @leahcallen.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Northwest WindIan Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The daily photo. Vatersay, Western Isles, Scotland. Sept.2025 032
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026] ] ] ] ] ] in a thin voice ] Sappho, Fragment 24D. Translated by Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson. "Carson loves the spaces almost as much as the words: she says in her introduction that ‘brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.’" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2... 210
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Talent isn’t enough ... Writing is work. Anyone can do this, anyone can learn to do this. It’s not rocket science, it’s habits of mind and habits of work. I started with people much more talented than me, she said ... The difference between myself and them is that I’m writing." RIP (1945 - 2026) 001
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why doesn’t the golden rule solve all human inequity? We live in a reality of uncertain outcomes and imperfect systems. Why should an LLM trained on human values/endeavors be anything different? I’m not a cynic, but expecting perfection from LLMs is the most worrying symptom as far as I can see. 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yes, a challenging article for an “achieve, achieve, achieve” mindset. We should all be so lucky to escape the constraints of labels, expectation, categorization and embrace our “so-so” nature, and the promise of happiness. "Delirious" and "ecstatic" is an amazing way to describe this experience. 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So glad there is a gift version of this review! "sometimes it feels like I turned left at the crossroads and everybody else turned right” More about Dorthe Nors: www.dorthenors.dk/english 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The politics of “hereness” … what a contrast and what a compelling and hopeful alternative! As they say in the postscript, I fully endorse this message “… the more devoted you are to a place, the easier it is to put in the resources and energy required to improve it. 051
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“After that, Duffy said the rice is ready to be processed by ‘dancing’ on it.” Good news abounds on the positive impacts of restoration, protection and education. 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Arguing that social science research on these topics is ‘ideological’ is not only a clearly ideological position, but one that finds common cause with attacks on academic freedom." 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“A new dawn will break over the darkened world … And our mistakes will once again be forgotten.” Common thread in his films: Nolan's "... obsession with the destructive consequences of individualistic actions. His are films about the hubris of believing we are above nature, and above other people." 020
Reposted by Northwest WindTerrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Fardokht Gorouhi's gorgeous poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. #poem #poetry #poet #washington #olympicnationalpark #hohriver #fish #herons #rivers #loss #beautyterrain.orgOne Poem by Fardokht Gorouhi - Terrain.orgFardokht Gorouhi's poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. 001
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Interview with Ravi is full of humor, love, appreciation, and just so much humanness. What a way to celebrate 100 years since Coltrane’s birth. Ravi’s book of photos also referenced below.penguinrandomhouse.comColtrane: 9781984858399 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksThe definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane's life and music, featuring exclusive contributions written by Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu, Carlos Santana,... 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“I am drawn to coasts, to the placement of shells against my ear, to the lulling bob of boats, and to far-distant and seemingly unending horizons … As a photographer, I have never witnessed light as soft as that of the midnight sun.” 121
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So much to love about this highly anticipated release. Thank you for a fabulous interview. You can see some preliminary sketches and paintings from Shaun Tan here: www.shauntan.net/hometown 010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“I am ok living in the complicated and complex and I want these stories to live in those places as well.” Conversation with @cmariefuhrman.bsky.social about "Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return" and the somatic experience of places and nature. theadroitjournal.org/2025/05/19/a... 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"The Suquamish Tribe has defended the treaty in the Supreme Court nine times, Purser said, and won every time."magiccanoe.org‘Quite Frustrating:’ What It’s Like to Have a Treaty with the United States - Magic CanoeHeirs to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott explain their ancestors’ wisdom and how they defend it today. 000
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Yiyun Li… offers a more personal and pointed interpretation than any of her forerunners." asianreviewofbooks.com/fortress-bes... 010
Reposted by Northwest WindKelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I took this years ago in the early morning light. Today I am recalling that a good friend wrote to me about it saying the peony is the Dolly Parton of flowers. #memory #joy 36010
Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“The ‘civilian researcher’ was me.” - Chris Rutkowski (Winnipeg, Manitoba) uforum.blogspot.com Excerpt via The Walrus from “Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies.” 011