Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚

City Commissioner for a neighborhood library and community center - the Emma.
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.” Jane Austen

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

The Miracle of Grace…

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

"Grace meets you exactly where you are, at your most pathetic and hopeless, and it loads you into its wheelbarrow, and tips you out somewhere else, in ever so slightly better shape, which feels like a miracle." ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Today was the Plant, Book, and Bake Sale at the Emma. A woman bought 2 plates of cookies and gave them to the volunteers inside and outside. She said no one who was working should be denied a sugar rush! So very kind….

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@jgmahoney Jane Kenyon
Louisa May Alcott
Richard Russo
Thoreau
Sy Montgomery

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@drglennsullivan Emily Dickinson
e. e. cummings
Jane Kenyon
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Discovered why the neighborhood lost power during the storm.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Beauty from nature’s amazing colors on our evening walk.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@TheCharismaCafe How lovely is that! Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Happy June.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

I love the rabbit holes, the serendipitous learning.🐇

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

No, I do not want the AI overview.
I want to read a Wikipedia page that leads me to another Wikipedia page, and another, and another, and get lost for hours down a completely unrelated rabbit hole as the gods intended.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@Booksmiscellany Happy June 1!
“When June comes dancing o'er the death of May,
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet,
My soul takes leave of me to sing all day
A love so fugitive and so complete.”
Shakespeare

[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

"Taking the time to appreciate the small things—a quiet street, a familiar face, a moment of unexpected connection—is where life truly happens."
— Haruki Murakami

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
- Gertrude Jekyll

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads…..
Joanna Southcott

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

[Scott @Havenlust]

The yellow in Vincent van Gogh's paintings

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.”
– John Ruskin

[Scott @Havenlust]

The blue of Monet

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@AusteninBoston The neighbors all went out front, thinking a large tree went down, or an accident. Didn’t see anything but good bonding time!😊

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Not saying the storm was wild but found the pot on the lawn across the street. Limbs down. Drove a mile to the service and four side streets blocked off by huge limbs, branches. Even worse on our way home. Whitecaps in the river.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@TheCharismaCafe I am so sorry, my friend. She’ll always be in that corner of your heart. Sending hugs.💚✨💔

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@AusteninBoston Amount of limbs down was bad. Lost power. And then that meteor! Did you hear it?

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@MusicAndBooks9 Three of my favorite flavors. I’ll have to see how I can improvise!

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

Large boom sent neighbors into the street at 2:30. Turns out it was a meteor. House shook like it did with the earthquake last year. Crazy day today.

[Nick Stewart @NStewWX]

The flash density product really shows this anomalous "flash" which is pretty distinctive of a bolide/meteor reentry. east of Boston. This is the likely source of the loud boom/explosion.

[Susan Chase💚🐈‍⬛🌻💚 @SusanMChase]

@KarenLo55750271 Thanks, Karen. Saw some branches on parked cars. Hope that was the only damage.💨🍃💚