Penny Selle

Fine Arts educator

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“How can you not love mercy—kindness, compassion, forgiveness? It’s like not loving dessert, or cheese.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Almost everything I know about life: that it is a precious gift, and hard; that it is full of pleasures, messes, delights, loss, suffering, love.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Do I actually plan to leave all *my* stuff for my family to sort through when I am gone? Probably. I did it for my parents; my kid can do it for me. The old ways are the best ways.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“Always do the hard thing and you will have a better day. / The second thing will seem less hard.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

On Wild Things creator Maurice Sendak's birthday, his antidote to insomnia https://t.co/dAS7NEUEP8

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“You can have the sun and its harsh glare, but leave me the moon. It softens the night. It is said that we bathe in moonlight, in its luminous bath, introspective, changeable, silver. It cools us; cools me down.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

Happy #Pride! You're here. You made it. Or maybe you're still figuring out how to kick that closet door down. Maybe you're just trying to keep books on the shelf. Maybe you're reconciling your faith and politics with the love of your child. Maybe you're just trying to keep your students alive. Maybe you're sticking up for your co-workers or your neighbors. Maybe you stood up and ran for school board. Or, maybe, you took a step forward in being authentically you. #Pride calls on all of us to show up as allies in many ways. However you approach your allyship, thanks for being you. Let's march.

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“If you practice enduring people’s bewildering love for you, it will change you molecularly: it loosens you, gooses you, warms you.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

When 2 groups of penguins meet on the road, they stop for a short exchange of information. When one of them moves in with the wrong group, a friend goes after him to bring him back🙂🐧

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of Zinaida Portnova, the 16 year old girl who took the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food. She was captured by the Gestapo, and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed two more Nazis.

A seventh-grade student at the 385th school in Leningrad, Zinaida became member of the local underground Komsomol organization, named Young Avengers, during the German invasion.

She became employed as a kitchen aide in Obol. In August, she poisoned the food meant for the Nazi garrison stationed there. Immediately falling suspect, she said she was innocent and ate some of the food in front of the Nazis to prove it was not poisoned.

After she did not fall ill immediately, they released her. Portnova became sick afterwards, vomiting heavily but eventually recovering from the poison after drinking much whey. After she did not return to work, the Germans realized she had been the culprit and started searching for her.

When she was captured in 1943, during the Gestapo interrogation, she took the investigator's pistol off the table, then shot and killed him. When two German soldiers entered after hearing the gunshots, she shot them as well.

She then attempted to escape the compound and ran into the woods, where she was caught near the banks of a river. She was executed in 1944.

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Love abounds and abides, flirts and weeps with us. It is there for the asking, which is the easy part. Our lives’ toughest work is in the receiving.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

What do you think it is?? 😳

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

At age 16, Elie Wiesel was one of the more than 21,000 people liberated from Buchenwald #OTD in 1945. "I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and everyone who was there is a true witness," he told NPR in 1988. 📷: National Archives

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Hannah Seng

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Contemporary landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown captures the dramatic beauty of her home on the Pembrokeshire Coast, West Wales #WomensArt

[Penny Neville-Lee @PennyNevilleLee]

We often pick up snails from the pavement and move them somewhere safer. When we did it this morning, my daughter said 'that's good because it was that ones birthday'. I loved that, because I had no idea.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

LOVE this!

Thank you @folkypunkcas for sharing 🙏

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono #WomensArt #Monday

[Union Station KC @UnionStationKC]

Early morning light streams through Grand Hall's massive windows. Photographed by Roy Inman during Union Station's restoration.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Learn more: https://t.co/Da1EINZJE9