🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 2hNot so much these days (at least in the USA). Lots of classic hospice has been taken over by private equity (same as hospitals) but for those that truly believe in the work, it is still worth it. 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 2hLol no. People don't want to deal with the hardships of life unless there is a happy ending. Dealing with death is not going to sell books unless it's some mythical stuff like the tibetan book of living and dying. And even then, it depends on the translator. 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 2hSome of my favorite people have been dying people for how honest they are. Everyone like to brag about not giving a fuck but you really don't know what it means to not give a fuck until you are looking death in the face. 110
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hI just made a case for why I should work in death, didn't I? 220
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hStudent asked his teacher if mediation brought enlightenment. The teacher said that mediation brings enlightenment the way an alarm clock brings the sun. The student asked why it was worth meditating if it was just an alarm clock. The master answered that it was so you were awake when the sun rose. 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hDeath is the ultimate unknown and nothing scares people as much as the unknown. If people knew what happened after death, they wouldn't worry. It's the fact that we don't know that scares people. You need to meet that and sit with their own beliefs and systems. 120
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hIt's not so cut and dry. The majority of people who work in health have dealt with the reality of dying and we live in a culture that is very anti-dying. The result is an ideology that has trouble relating to reality. 120
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hThe realization is easy. Holding on to that is the hard part. 100
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hWe in a tough spot. Times was, the people that helped you live and die had the same financial backing and support, be it from the state or a church. Now, it's all corporate or "grassroots" and neither pays the bills. How are you supposed to help others live when you can barely live yourself? 110
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Georgia O'Keeffe : Trees in Autumn, 1920-21 Oil on canvas | 25.25 × 20.25 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe Further description in the alt text 👇 116924
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hI am at a place where I may need to give up a career in helping people live and instead change to a career where I help people die. 220
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hFather was a hospital chaplain, mother was a hospice nurse, and I used to clean hospitals/hospice and move dead bodies. It's... An interesting experience when the people who are telling you what to do to improve your financial situation are saying you should be a "death doula." 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 3hMet with the rent assistance people today. Felt very validated in them acknowledging that I'm in the donut hole when it comes to receiving assistance and also how hard it is to come up with a solution for my situation. Felt very... when I was reminded that I could be doing work in "death" 110
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4h@clairewillett.bsky.social , if you see this. My dad is a guy with a polish last name that works the Franciscan Spiritual Center. He's a big fan of brother Juniper. 000
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hI don't know. I will ask around. My dad has never been a computer person and ignores social media, so it's not something I get through him. 110
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hMy last Buddhist instructor survived Polpot. If you think TOUR family reunions are tough, they probably are. My family loves me no matter what, but it is some heavy love with a heavy background and that has its own weight. 110
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hAs someone who calls themselves agnostic now, meeting with old spiritual connections is going to be hard. I expect many, many heavy conversations. One of the sisters I know survived the Rwanda genocide. When I say heavy, I mean heavy. 100
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hThe hospitals and hospice/behavior houses I worked have all been Catholic ones. Even when I converted to Buddhism, I had a lot of Catholics supporting me. 100
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hI have spent time at the off limits old nun house at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden Colorado when my dad was working at the holy Ghost church in Denver, running their homeless program. 110
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hFor reference on how tight my family is with the Catholic community, here is a book and a picture. Outlined in red is my mom, my dad, and me as a baby on my dad's back. 121
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 4hMy trip to Portland is, from what I am learning, going to include a lot of meetings with old connections. For those that don't know, I spent the first few years of my life on a Franciscan collective farm that grew food for the poor. This should be interesting. 230
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15hWho me? Yes you. Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599, from the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. By the great Caravaggio, whose day is today. 1038058
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖🪬🌙🐈⬛Pythia Uidliua🐦⬛⭐️🧿GNOTHI SEAUTON ♐️⚕️🍷 @krymsynreine.bsky.social · 13hSheela-na-gig, 1100-1200 CE. Chloran, Westmeath, Ireland, Now at the British Museum #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #heathensky #archaeology #celtic #Ireland #goddess #Sheela-na-gig 311320
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 10hYou basically guessed it. Libraries, coffee shops, the internet at work, etc. Here in Colorado some of our regional buses have wifi connections also and, since I also don't drive/own a car, I can log on when traveling. 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Potatoes are one of the best comfort foods. Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew and mash em all down with your feelings too. 050
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Been living in a small mountain town since my late 20s and am 38 now. Just a small refurbished old miners cabin. No tv, no internet. I just hang in my yard, paint, write, read, and enjoy. It is truly the best lifestyle. 160
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Other story is the potential for a significant early season mountain snow Tue-Wed. While this is mainly for higher elevations (10-11k+), models in good agreement (below). Exact temps will be key. I'm still a big skeptical of I-70 totals, but San Juans in line for a big early snow. #COwx 0351
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Georgia O'Keeffe : Blue and Green Music, 1919-21 Oil on canvas 58.4 × 48.3 cm | 23.0 × 19 in The Art Institute of Chicago This abstract piece captures the artistic concept of synesthesia: the translation of auditory experiences like music into visual compositions for the eye. More info 👇👇 0346
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Nomski Cee @nomskic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gathering Thoughts The finished piece is now available from irishartmart.ie/Art/gatherin... #abstractart #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #originalart #art #artyear 1132
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life. 561612586
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To quote the legendary band, infectious groove; "What goes up, must come down. But what gets funky is hanging around." 010
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That they are calling 600 people a "caravan" is the biggest tell. 000
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women. 010
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Francoise Gilot (1921-94) : Magic Mountain, 1989-91, Paris Oil on canvas 28.75 × 36.25 in | 73 x 92.1 cm Magic Mountain demonstrates Gilot's mastery of structural harmony and the emotional resonance of color. Further description in the alt text 👇 0173
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's also showing that it might be as hot as 80°F in Portland on the day I arrive. 030
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is a small chance that there will be snow on the ground the day I leave for Portland. I would really like to be here for the first snow, so fingers crossed 🤞 170
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Adolph Gottlieb, American (1903-1974), Dialogue, 1960, oil on canvas, 167.64 x 335.28 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA 0172
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just need to get through a 5 hour work day (and 3 hours of commute time) before the start of the first vacation I had in five years. Oh, sure, I've taken plenty of time off from work in that time, but I don't count "in so much pain you can't leave bed" as a vacation. 140
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse. Later, we would call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found. Original post 529753
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026All the rich people who have been secretly swapping out their blood and organs in a vain attempt to beat death: "uh oh" 050
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That explains why they are always so apologetic with me after I get scanned. 030
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026© Thierry Lefort. 'Fiery Morning.' Oil on canvas, 2024. 116 × 89 cm. 0717
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dr. Apocalypse is running on a platform that involves turning the working class into super mutants that no longer need to eat and can work for days without needing a break. What other politician is doing anything for the working class? 010
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the priests injured in a knife attack by a Ukrainian man at a Catholic abbey in Poland last week – which left one of his colleagues dead and another fighting for his life – has delivered a homily calling for people to forgive the attacker and not to blame Ukrainians as a whole for his actionsnotesfrompoland.com"Don't blame Ukrainian nation," says Polish priest injured in deadly knife attack 201206338
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be... 44767146
Reposted by 🍖LunchMeat🍖ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Henry Lavin (American, b.1991) "Backyard," 2026 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 317024
🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From what I have gathered via cultural osmosis, I believe you and think you are probably correct. 000
