Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Trail runner / NGO education director / firefighter-paramedic wife / Stanford, CalFire, UC-Davis mom. Sooner born. Missing Nala. ❤ Yosemite. She/her.

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

autumn in yosemite

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Apparently some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Texas: ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’

Trump: ‘I’m gonna bulldoze a beloved National Park and build a border wall so I can get kickbacks from contractors’

Texas GOP: ‘Sounds good, Boss.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration
—46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born
—41% of the science and engineering research published by US authors in 2024 included international collaborators
—20% of physicians working the the USA were born and educated abroad
@ACarnegieFdn and @TheLancet
https://t.co/0e8pYHjvR5

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

I, too, have decided not to build nukes in exchange for $300 billion

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

@bethpratt Incredible and awful

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

A day 60+ years in the making.

It is with great pride and so much gratitude that I share with you that I am a college graduate with a Bachelor's in History from @CalStateLA.

There aren't words adequate enough to encapsulate all that I am feeling in this moment, so I'll simply say this:

It is never too late to learn, to grow, or to chase the dream that still quietly calls your name. Life has a way of rerouting our paths and asking us to begin again when we least expect it.

But the dream does not expire simply because time has passed.

Whether you're 18 or 82, your goals are still worthy of pursuit.

Keep going for it. Keep believing in yourself. And never let anyone convince you that your moment has passed. Because sometimes the most meaningful victories arrive after the longest journeys.

📷: @CalStateLA

#Classof2026

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"Taxpayers are footing a whopping $1 billion bill for Trump's ballroom. Your budget cuts the National Park Service by $1 billion. If you put this $1 billion towards our national parks instead of Trump's ballroom, that would benefit every single American."

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

@bethpratt Best day of the year!

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
https://t.co/XfNLliRVaO

[hunter @3gpmh]

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

@Ellie01528142 @DiaperDiplomacy Seinfeld and Jon Stewart too 😂

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

@bethpratt Ugh. Bad for the visitors, horrible for the wildlife. This is awful news.

[Seedsower99🌻🌱🚒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @trailseekrs]

still not a cat

[Judge Roy Ferguson @JudgeFergusonTX]

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

[Valet Parker @702ValetParker]

Funny how “Save the Children” always means harassing queer people and sex workers but never means cleaning out the pedophiles in your church.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

I hope the next viral trend is empathy and critical thinking skills

[mads 🐞 nkdenn2 @godlightgrace]

there you have it folks. oklahoma does, in fact, have snow plows. they even have names.

[The San Andreas Fault @sanandreafault]

This should be framed in a museum

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“There are people in the world who are so sick or so angry that they sometimes hurt other people and they’re usually the ones who end up in the news...but when we get sad and angry, you and I, we know what to do with our feelings so we don’t have to hurt other people.”

[Sandra Boynton @SandyBoynton]

Reposting my son's July 4th poem.