Lydia Frangipani

Mom. Cat Fancier. Carmelite.

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Bro is huge

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@TheCatholicEngr Also good to remember, life has seasons. This season is preparation and rest. The next season there will be little rest, but then it will get better. It is up and down. And get used to the phrase, "This too shall pass." Also, never pass an opportunity for a nap. It is not lazy.

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@TheCatholicEngr Make a weekly schedule and set aside a day as "Personal Time". That time is yours. Blocked out. There will be time to do chores, it has a block too. Now no guilt! BUT remember pregnant women are building a baby. Rest is a requirement!

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@emzanotti Because many stores stop stocking them in June! I was told once by a dept store clerk in the early part of June, when I wanted to buy my kid a pair of good sandals, "Sandal season is over."!!!! Maybe for them, but I live in Florida! How can "sandal season" be over in June?

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This Van Cleef & Arpels ballerine watch

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@cecsquared I will probably buy one of the LOTH sets for personal use, but as a Secular Discalced Carmelite, when we are together in community we use the one volume book, & our province will let us know which one to use. Of course, we know nothing yet about the publishers of the one volume.

[Muse @xmuse_]

There are great painters, and then there are the rare ones whose portraits feel like they’re about to blink.

Anthonis Mor is firmly in that category.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Details of clothing in a painting by Rembrandt, 1639.

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@KeenanPeachy They are probably already married and the rest is for show. I actually hope that is the case. More meaningful that way.

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@PetriOP I'm waiting until I can see and feel both in person. We have awhile. I will use the LOTH for prayer by myself, but for our group Carmelite meetings we will use the 1 Volume. Haven't seen any real info on that yet.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

A Blossoming Garden with Poppies, by Ukrainian painter Mykhaylo Berkos (1896). In private collection.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The sound of hail falling on a mountainside covered in slate rock

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Malinois: brains, speed, power… and zero chill.

[WPLG Local 10 News @WPLGLocal10]

Jonah the dog got his long-awaited hot dog after watching another scarf one down during a Marlins game on Monday. Click here for the latest details: https://t.co/redrEqznWq

[+Spock::: @Spockplanet]

#Terremotos | Vista de las EQL (Earthquake lights) desde Caracas esta madrugada. Las luces de terremoto es un fenómeno asociado a sismos importantes que se den antes, durante o después de estos eventos. Según investigaciones, se dan debido al stress liberado por las placas que, en medio de la situación, liberan la energía a través de rocas como el basalto que, al llegar a la atmósfera lo hacen en forma de plasma sólido. De allí es que se puede ver algo parecido a una aurora boreal. Se han visto en grandes terremotos durante los últimos 200 años. Es nuestra Tierra, un planeta que está vivo. Spock 🖖

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

was never a huge s'mores fan, however, this version has my full attention and will be recreated

[Lydia Frangipani @LydiaFrangipani]

@ok6ixx I know those videos, they are great! Good for him.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Useless machines, first conceived around 1952 by Marvin Minsky while at Bell Labs, are fully functional machines designed to perform exactly nothing useful.

📽: fritend1

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

So many people—myself included—are drawn to the climate movement because they want to help people. They care, want to help the poor, and save the planet. But what they don't understand is that the climate movement is doing the exact opposite of what these well-meaning activists want to accomplish.

The movement vilifies reliable energy—the single biggest driver of getting people out of poverty.

Over the past several decades, we’ve spent trillions on an energy transition away from fossil fuels. The result? We’ve made our energy system less reliable and more expensive.

Western countries have also practiced climate colonialism by preventing Africa from developing with natural gas, coal, and oil. (This goes against everything climate activists claim to stand for!)

This is the most morally inverted movement ever.

Right now, a billion people don't have access to reliable energy. That means women are spending their entire day figuring out how to get fuel to cook their food. Children in these settings are not going to school, they’re spending hours collecting wood or walking to get water. All of that is a symptom of energy poverty.

This is when climate activists will say “but the planet is burning!” Just no. The planet is not burning. Yes, we've added CO2 to the atmosphere and seen about ~1°C of warming over 150 years. But 95% of CO2 is naturally occurring and historically, warming periods are when humans flourish. The Medieval Warm Period (900–1300 AD) is a great example. It was 0.7-1°C warmer and populations boomed. They then collapsed during the Little Ice Age.

Takeaway the climate hysteria and objectively you would choose to live during a warming period over a cooling period.

The rest of the data is reassuring:
✅Globally hurricanes rates are slightly declining
✅Tornadoes are down
✅Sea level rise is a manageable ~3mm/year
✅Global greening is up 15–40% since the 1980s
✅10x people still die from cold than from heat

In the West the first time students hear about our energy system is within the context of “fossil fuels are burning the planet.” They’re never taught that it’s an amazing technology that has lifted billions out of poverty. I considered this a huge injustice.

We need to pivot away from climate hysteria toward one goal: ending energy poverty and expanding access to energy.

If you’re still gripped by climate fear and anxiety, I’m sorry you are a victim of this fear narrative. But it's time to get out.