iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

sending you a generous cup of lovingyourself fortitude that's slow release because it's so potent.... love to you all!!!

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

LOL I've missed a lot of minimally displaced fractures ........

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm facing this with my enlarging heart. I register being out of breath but I have never felt any pain more than a dull ache in my left chest area... even with an earlier 90% blocked artery and a clot. After 3 baby aspirins I could jog instead of gasping for air walking 50 feet. Silent blockage

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I had to beg mri's after xrays didn't show anything .. and I totally understand because I had 5 minimally displaced fractures on the top of my fibula ... just sore skin no other pain but some nausea which I know now is my signal .... just surface pain registers (having a hard time with heart pain.)

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

oh gee -- I didn't realize that the eastern kingbird has an orange splotch on the head. I'm not as observant as I think ...🫢. they live here. beautiful photo -- thank you !!!

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." — Abraham Lincoln I am sorrow.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

yeah - all those "CASH OFFERS FOR YOUR HOME!!" billboards along highways flanked by modest homes ....

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

more gigantuan projecting, eh??

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I wish we had a care reaction without posting -- so here is my "I empathize with and care about your family's long silence. It's wonderful that we are finding our voices." reaction ❤️🙏

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

sorry I missed your wave until now..

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

that should be counter reformation .....

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

or /and "The only one of her kind in captivity" no longer funny.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

For me it was early puberty, trauma, and the empire of changing social rules. I fell off the earth for many years ..lol, kinda.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

thank you!! that/s me among many ...

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

yay! Way less crude tankers and potash cars coming through my neighborhood!!! 240 car trains ... (not really yay-- it's just about the circumstances)

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

For my autistic beings here -- in Bill Bryson's book on Shakespeare : are you like this? "He had a kind of assimilative intelligence which allowed him to pull together disparate fragments of knowledge " I've tried to explain how I think in these very words ... You??

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I have the equal gifts of forgetting almost everything but then in conversation with someone about the subject (probably gardening and composting) information flies out of my mouth at just the right time .... inviting some to say "How do you know all that?" me thinking -- where did that come from?

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join great poet Jimmy Santiago Baca Feb 21-23 at Upaya. ONSITE www.upaya.org/program/the-... ONLINE www.upaya.org/program/the-... WIth poet Jane Hirshfield, artist translators Ian Boyden and Kazi Tanahashi, and Roshi Joan.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

may all sentient beings be rested and charged...and have a knapsack of empathy on their backs ... after that over to you ...

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

How fast do you knit??? Or are these wip in turn?

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 29/01/2025

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to spend an hour watching red pandas eat crunchy snacks? youtu.be/UBcVbAFntQo?...

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One Hour Of Red Pandas Eating Crunchy Snacks

YouTube video by Oregon Zoo

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I knit strips of leftover Paton wool and made the cardinal sin of not testing the yarn I used to stitch them together. noped. acrylic. I think I can fix it with any wool yarn even if I don't felt it again??

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

yes, yes, a thousand times yes!!!

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

how about " I have many curiosity channels in my line up.."

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

every report card stated "if Karen could work up to her potential" and "try harder". I am sorrow for the young who have to read those sentences.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

and that's the way to be a great employee!! (to good employers that is..)

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

yes! When the gob pulled out is half the size of the skein... yarn barf is a new term -- makes sense 😀

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I just noticed that after catract surgery -- I thought it was part of my healing. Don't like this.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

even worse for some was the Catholic Reformation leading to the Inquisition ...

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

please tell me about metformin wrecking your stomach. Mine was wrecked after a tooth pulling when the denitst had me take 800mg ibrupofen ...

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I don't really feel hunger but go by time of day to eat .. BUT I do have a natural shutoff valve when my body says -- that's enough ... but no physical feeling to back it up.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

my mostly tbr shelf .... posting for others who might be shy ..

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When a thunderstorm was forecast I couldn't sleep until the pressure changed and feeling it II just dropped off.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Idiom Origin “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible. A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on. This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

Two farmers looking at a tower. The one of the left Is pulling up on their bootstrap to no effect. The farmer on the right is using a pully system and people pulling on the rope to pull him up the tower.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thank you !! Love -- cooperation not competition..... 🙏 My father used to introduce me as "The only one of her kind in captivity " I Hated that. So then I had to say "I'm different - not better, not worse, just different."

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

thank you for bearing witness for hope.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I have an interoception problem -- I think I need to skip the last 4 ... pain is fleeting ... but if I'm feeling nauseated I'd better go to the doctor because I probably broke something . I really like this 😀

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

it's about cooperation -- competition led us here .. right? and being nice is love in action I hope.

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

may you also receive what you wish this coming year

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Karen Obermiller @psekao.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

But who is going to save us from ourselves??

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