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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 13/04/2026

Nature break!   I find it helpful to reflect on the fact that the machinations of the human species are not all there is in this universe.   One practice that serves to remind me of this is taking time to observe nature, letting it penetrate my awareness, and that brings some peace of mind. #swan

Image of a white swan creating ripples on a river that is reflecting the deep olive greens of the surrounding trees.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 10/03/2026

Paying attention awakens awe: "Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention." ~ Katherine May

An image from Grateful Living of a quotation by Katherine May who writes, "Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention."

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 07/03/2026

Nature break! Carefully noticing the variety of the natural is good for calming the mind.

Image of spiny yellow leaves of a European Holly set in the midst of dark green leaves with yellow edges.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 26/02/2026

Nature break! What do you see in this abstract? #art #nature #abstract

Image of naturally occurring muted greys of the muddy bottom of an estuary at low tide interspersed with flows of water.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 25/02/2026

Art break! Portrait painting commission of Tenley Albright, the first American woman in Winter Olympics history to win gold for the United States in women’s figure skating in Cortina, Italy in 1956. #art #painting #portrait #olympics

Portrait painting commission of Tenley Albright, the first American woman in Winter Olympics history to win gold for the United States in women's figure skating for America in Cortina, Italy in 1956. Tenley Albright is skating with one arm extended above her head and the other toward the viewer while performing a skating move dressed in a bright red and white outfit on white skates, all juxtaposed against a dark warm background.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 23/02/2026

Nature break! White cherry blossom in February. #blossum #shotoniphone #nature #flower

One white cherry blossom on a branch with buds set against a darker background of the another tree and blossums.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 12/02/2026

Art break! ‘Multiplying Tomatoes’ Original oil on canvas by Seamus Berkeley #art #painting #still-life

An oil painting of one large tomato and several small smaller ones arranged in an interesting composition against a light grayish background.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 30/01/2026

Nature break! Abstract can be seen everywhere in nature. #abstract #nature #art #shotoniphone

Image of the abstract shapes created in nature by the juxtaposition of dark rock, ocean waves, and splashes of salt water.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 28/01/2026

Art break! “Empty Vase” monochromatic oil on canvas #art #oilpainting #bw #still-life

Monochromatic oil painting of an empty vase on a light grey surface with cast shadows against a light grey background.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 28/01/2026

Nature break! Witnessing the power and vastness of the ocean can evoke a sense of awe and inner calm.

Waves crashing on a horizontal row of dark rocks during a cloudy and stormy day at the beach.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 28/01/2026

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~ James Baldwin

Image of James Baldwin Quote from Grateful Living: "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 14/01/2026

Nature break! Seagull Silhouette Tranquil moment on an estuary in the early morning sunlight. #nature #birds #water #eastcoastkin #shotoniphone

Seagull silhouetted floating in the rippling water of an estuary during a tranquil moment in early morning sunlight.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 10/01/2026

Nature break! The intricacies of the natural world are awe inspiring. Dew on a spider web in yellow gorse. #art #nature #eastcoastkin

Dew drops on a spider web built into a yellow gorse bush.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 08/01/2026

Nature break! Birds along a river silhouetted in early morning light just before sunrise. #nature #art #eastcoastkin #birds

Birds along the winding path of a river, with one in the mid-ground just landing on the water, all silhouetted by early morning pastel-colored orange light just before sunrise.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 05/01/2026

Nature break! The best abstract artist: nature! #abstract #art #eastcoastkin #nature

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 03/01/2026

Nature break! No matter what crazy actions humans are taking, it’s always useful for our sanity to practice moments of experiencing beauty and awe by witnessing the vastness of nature. #nature #art #moon #water #birds

An estuary at low tide in the early morning before sunrise with a group swans swimming, a footbridge, a row of trees without leaves, and the full moon just above the horizon being reflected in the water.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 01/01/2026

Nature break! Berries seen on a walk today. #awe

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 28/12/2025

Lord Farquaad with reflection of #FelonTrump

Still image from the movie Shrek of Lord Farquaad in front of a mirror that has a reflection of a face that looks like Trump.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 27/12/2025

Have been reading the book "Awe" by Dacher Keltner (bookshop.org/a/106012/978...) and came across this Restorative Justice Pledge—struck me as a pledge to practice kindness: #kindness #empathy

Image of a Restorative Justice Pledge:

I believe that violence is not a solution to any problem.

I believe that every person is endowed with a sacred dignity.

I believe that every person is capable of changing, healing, and being restored.

I pledge to respect the dignity of every person.

I pledge to overcome violence with love and compassion.

I pledge to accompany and support anyone affected by crime on their healing journey.

I pledge to be an instrument of restoration, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 12/12/2025

Nature break! On a morning walk, saw this heron sunbathing in the river. #shotoniphone #eastcoastkin

A heron standing and reflected in a river, looking down into the deep blue water, illuminated by bright warm sunlight from the right.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 06/12/2025

Nature break! The variety of creation is fascinating, like this old man's beard covering bushes.

Wispy old man's beard (clematis vitalba) in late fall covering a bush and highlighted by the sun behind it.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 30/11/2025

Nature break! The ethereal beauty of grey skies above a decaying stone building being overgrown with vines, moss, and lichen.

Grey skies above a decaying stone building being overgrown with vines, moss, and lichen with bright green grass growing wildly in the foreground.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 27/11/2025

Oliver Kornetzke originally posted on FB:

“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”

Oliver Kornetzke

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 23/11/2025

Nature break! A field of ivy with warm highlights of sunlight and cool lights of the blue sky.

A field of ivy with leaves reflecting the cool temperature of a clear blue sky highlighted with areas of warm temperatures of sunlight.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 19/11/2025

Nature break! Sunshine lighting every green thing growing on a stone wall. Experience a moment of awe noticing the small things in nature.

A small green plant and moss growing on a grey stone wall lit by morning sunlight.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 29/10/2025

What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think-and America's Finally Figuring It Out? THOM HARTMANN open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Mike Johnson engineered a coverup of Trump’s association with Jeffery Epstein, and Republicans averted their eyes as Ghislaine Maxwell was moved from a real prison to a Club Fed where she lives in an unlocked dormitory and can entertain herself with tennis and puppy-training.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 25/10/2025

Nature break! City of Rocks, Faywood, New Mexico. #LandofEnchantment #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical

Rock formations of two massive boulders with a vertical crack between them and another boulder, resting at the top of that crack in the City of Rocks, Faywood, New Mexico.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 23/10/2025

Nature break! City of Rocks, Faywood, New Mexico. #LandofEnchantment #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical

Rock formations in the City of Rocks, Faywood New Mexico, with a long vertical crack leading to the background between tall vertical rock formations.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 15/10/2025

Nature break! I often wonder if we all spent a little more time every day in appreciation of the splendor of our natural world would the human race be more at peace? #NewMexico #LandofEnchantment

Clouds in a blue sky surrounding the sun setting on the horizon above distant violet colored mountains illuminating long yellow strands of grass against the dark earth in the foreground.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 10/10/2025

A timeless message by Peace Pilgrim from Grateful Living www.peacepilgrim.org grateful.org

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
PEACE PILGRIM

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 08/10/2025

Nature break! When crazy things are happening, it’s always good to take a moment and gaze at the natural world. #NewMexico #LandofEnchantment

Brilliant orange, red, and violet colored clouds above distant mountains during an evening sunset in southwest New Mexico.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 21/09/2025

Nature break! A moment of calm in Mimbres, New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment.

White clouds in a blue sky above a green valley with piñon and cactus in Mimbres, New Mexico.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 18/09/2025

Art break! Taking a moment to view a painting can bring some relief from the stress of chaos. "Full Moon over Mountain, Taos", original oil on canvas, 36" x 16" #BlueskyArt #painting #calm #impressionism #landscape #moon #nature #NewMexico #serene #simplicity #sky #southwest #Taos

Moon rising above the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Taos, New Mexico—the Land of Enchantment!

Full Moon over Mountain, Taos, original oil on canvas, 36" x 16"

Original paintings and prints © Seamus Berkeley.

https://seamusberkeley.com/shop-for-art/full-moon-over-mountain-taos/

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 04/09/2025

Art break! Evening scene in Taos, New Mexico. This painting appeared on the cover of Taos News Magazine. Oil painting of the moon in a yellow, red, and violet evening sky above the silhouettes of buildings around the plaza of Taos, New Mexico. “Taos Aglow”, original oil on canvas, 14.75" x 12"

Evening scene in Taos, New Mexico. This painting appeared on the cover of Taos News Magazine.

Oil painting of the moon in a yellow, red, and violet evening sky above the silhouettes of buildings around the plaza of Taos, New Mexico.

Taos Aglow, original oil on canvas, 14.75" x 12", framed, $725

Original paintings and prints © Seamus Berkeley.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 09/05/2025

Perspective on Perception How do we really see the world and our existence in it? Read more about this topic of renewing our way of seeing the world on this Substack: open.substack.com/pub/seamusbe... #perspective #perception #art #worldview

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 27/04/2025

Art break! “Full Moon II”, oil on canvas, Seamus Berkeley, 36”x36”

Oil painting of a bright soft yellow full moon in a dark blue evening sky, framed by dark green leaves of a tree.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 23/04/2025

Good Unite Us www.goodsuniteus.com From their app:

Screenshot of goods unite us app rating of Flowers Foods as 94% republican leaning

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 22/04/2025

Nature break! Many of us spend so much time in boxes that it’s good to get outside and experience nature. Letting our cares go temporarily and inviting nature in is a good way to ground and relieve anxiety. Scene on a walk on #EarthDay in Taos, New Mexico, Land of Enchantment.

View of a distant blue mountain and clear skies scene viewed through budding trees in spring in Taos, New Mexico, Land of Enchantment

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 13/04/2025

“We are nature and we are it all the time, no matter how far away or how close we perceive it to be at each moment.” Fabiana Fondevila

Quotation image by Grateful Living, “We are nature and we are it all the time, no matter how far away or how close we perceive it to be at each moment.”
FABIANA FONDEVILA

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 13/04/2025

Art break! “Because” Because the world is round It turns me on Because the world is round Because the wind is high It blows my mind Because the wind is high Love is old, love is new Love is all, love is you Because the sky is blue It makes me cry Because the sky is blue Aah John Lennon

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 24/03/2025

Art break! " Inward", Seamus Berkeley, oil on canvas, 48" x 36”.  An oil painting of an entry at the Rock of Cashel, which legend states originated when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave.  #OilPainting #art  tinyurl.com/nkrd75p6

An oil painting of an open entryway of the Rock of Cashel cathedral revealing another open doorway on the church’s opposite side in which an ethereal figure is standing in white light.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 13/03/2025

Nature break! Beauty still exists—we just need to take a moment to look for it and when we find it, pause to enjoy it!

Small white blossoms of spring on a tree juxtaposed against a dark blue sky background in New Mexico.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 18/02/2025

Cat break! Jade basking in golden hues of a New Mexico early evening sunset. Appreciating our furry friends, who live a simpler life, can bring balance to our human strivings. #cats #NewMexico #LandofEnchantment

Tan colored cat perched on a cat ladder at evening sunset lighting of golden hues framed against a background of an adobe wall and nicho with a small howling dog carving and sea corals.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 15/02/2025

Nature break! New Mexico skies today. #LandofEnchantment Healthy to take a moment to find balance amidst chaos. #NatureHeals

Panoramic image of bright blue skies with puffy white clouds and a bright sun above a landscape with trees and mountains in southwestern New Mexico near Silver City.

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Seamus Berkeley @sbart.com · 14/02/2025

Calla Lily Yellow, original oil on canvas, 8" x 6", Seamus Berkeley. Your purchase of this oil painting will help fund Earthjustice and ACLU! Read more: www.seamusberkeley.com/art-joy-and-... Available at: www.seamusberkeley.com/fleeting-flo...

An oil painting of a yellow calla lily, placed against a warm green and dark violet background in a wooden frame.

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