Elizabeth Cumer

Part-time essential American worker. Poet, author of “The Appalachian Vignettes.” Working on Catalpa. Trying to do more than take up space.

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

Sun dogs, 10 below zero. A tad chilly. #mnwx

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

November 23 in Minnesota

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

All I want is a world that’s safe for basil plants DO BETTER MINNESOTA #mnwx

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precursors of the collage style of #art. In a letter to her niece, Mary said she had invented a new way of imitating flowers. #FolkloreSunday @britishmuseum

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

'The Bubble'. Photographed by Clarence H. White, 1898.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

The St. Paul cathedral in the snow, bells and all.

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

The most ancient of trees, the Yew symbolises #Saturn & death, but also the rebirth of light at the winter solstice. It is Old Magic, dark dreams, Otherworld journeys & connection to ancestors. It is perseverance leading to transformation. It is renewal. #FairyTaleTuesday

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

Minnesota life in November

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

You know the political situation is cooked because for a while there the earth had two moons and none of the poets even noticed.

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

Oh yay, now everyone in America (not just boomers) will have memories of people who suffered from or died of polio! Make iron lungs great again!

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his nominee for health secretary, AP sources say. https://t.co/dm4uIQV8gj

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I think one of the most difficult reckonings of this election is that the incentives we thought inspired voting choices -- a better life for your family and future for your community -- may not be as decisive as the desire to dominate and inflict cruelty on outgroups. Explanations that don't grapple with this point generally read to me like liberal wishcasting.

[Yony 🏆🏆🏆 @Toneloke93]

Also 2 weeks ago, the greatest inning in World Series history

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

“What’s done cannot be undone”, Lady Macbeth.

Ellen Terry shown here wearing her famous Lady Macbeth “beetle wing” dress, first worn on stage in Dec 1888. Meant to invoke fear, the addition of 1000 beetle wing cases created the effect of scales. Recently restored. #BookWormSat

[CSPAN @cspan]

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN): "I just want to acknowledge the moment. It's hard. It's hard to lose. It's hard to understand why so many of our fellow citizens, people that we have fought so long and hard for, wound up choosing the other path..."

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

Thought going into work today would be calming but since 8 am: our company email was hacked, there’s $3000 worth of fraud charges on a credit card and now a gas leak in the building

[NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30]

It’s hard for me to read this and not be like “fine send them all home”

Social justice causes are emotionally taxiing. You fight for people who don’t want to be fought for, you get tired of it and you just lose all your empathy. What was it all for? Did it even help or did it just make it worse.”

[Elizabeth Cumer @ElizabethCumer]

@JoJoFromJerz 78 percent of black men voted for Harris. And why aren’t you calling out white men who voted for Trump, just white women?

[😼 @dutchessprim]

Y’all fucked around, time to find out.

[2RawTooReal @2RawTooReal]

Yall are on your own

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch

2024 Democrats are the red dot.

Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.