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Like pulling the veil off the face of the love of your life, the fog lifts and reveals the unparalleled beauty of Yosemite National Park in California. On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove as protected lands. Overshadowed by the Civil War, this news received little attention, but it set a significant precedent - places of scenic and natural importance should be protected for the enjoyment of all people. Photo by National Park Service.

lifeinpoetry

Of all the things I have done, I am most proud of our relationship, of picking up the pieces of investing in each other again and again. I am proud to trust you, despite the pain of trusting that lives in me every day. In every way, I was raised to kill this: the impulse to build and protect a place where you and I can live as ourselves. And not just live. When I hear you on the phone, there’s always something else going on, something’s happened that will change you or change me, and it’s not those moments but ourselves that we share with each other. Not out of necessity, but abundance.

Yanyi, from The Year of Blue Water (via lifeinpoetry)

captainheroism

scenerygasm→ the greatest showman

metrodorus

by Emilia Morariu

bernard-artal

Quarantième jour de confinement.

Madrid - Se souvenir du mois d’avril : déambuler dans les rues au hasard et passer quelques heures au jardin botanique royal. En avril, le parterre des iris y est sublime.

Loin, si loin, du confinement.

[2 hors-carnet - 100 x 130 et 200 x 130 mm]

americasgreatoutdoors

The Lemhi Pass in #Idaho is where Lewis and Clark crossed over the Continental Divide in 1805. This marked a major milestone in the U. S. westward expansion, but Lewis and Clark were not the first people to use the pass. They followed a well-traveled Shoshone Trail. Sacajawea lived as a child below the pass along Agency Creek until age 12 when she was captured during a battle with another another tribe and forced to North Dakota. It was here that she became part of the Corps of Discovery with Lewis and Clark and proved to be invaluable to the success of the expedition. Today the pass is traversed by a 35-mile long graded unpaved Backcountry Byway through public lands where colorful wildflowers like arrowleaf balsam-root, lupine and delphinium rival the sunset. Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management (@mypubliclands).

stealingpotatoes

The poem is ‘Icarus Hypothesis Love’ by the wonderful @flightlesskiwi

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Image by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

If the name of this year’s U.S. Poet Laureate sounds familiar, that could be because Joy Harjo was also last year’s pick for the job. In a statement announcing the reappointment, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden called Harjo “an inspiring and engaging poet laureate,” who would “help the Library showcase Native poets from coast-to-coast.”

Hear Harjo read her poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here”

– Petra

longseasons

idk can also mean “i DO know” so watch out

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americasgreatoutdoors

As the largest, coldest and most pristine of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior is an astounding natural feature. It has the largest surface of any freshwater lake on Earth and is the third largest lake by volume. Bordered by Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canada, the lake’s waters have a massive impact on the surrounding land. At Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, cliffs, boulders and beaches are sculpted and smoothed, creating a dramatic meeting of land and water. Photo by National Park Service.