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Posted On: October 28th 2026, 03:00 pm

52 homes built. 52 families with a safe place to call home 🏡❤️
Through last year’s Impact Offering, we partnered with Hope Project International to bring hope and stability to families in rural Central America, and because of your generosity, all 52 homes are complete!

BUT, the impact doesn’t stop here 🌎 We have another opportunity to be part of what God is doing and help more families experience the safety and peace of having a place to call home.

What could you give up so another family could have a safe place to call home? When we give together, the impact goes far beyond what we could do alone. Let’s be part of something bigger 🤍

To learn more about Impact Offering— check out the link in our bio 🙌

My interest in Josefa de Óbidos, a Spanish-Portuguese 17th century painter, was the jumping-off point for my collaboration with @chelseafussflowers in her recent floral retreat in Lisbon (the retreat was called “Art, Flowers, & Gardens of Lisbon”, a title I find very evocative!).

Chelsea always wants her guests to be immersed in Portuguese culture and heritage and she and I worked together to translate Josefa’s legacy into different floral experiences for her guests.

On my first morning of teaching we headed out to Évora to see a few of Josefa’s paintings at the @museunfreimanueldocenaculo. We chose Évora because Lisbon’s old masters museum, the @mnaa_lisboa, is undergoing renovations and has been closed for a year, and Évora is both a short drive from Lisbon and an amazing city in its own right.

I started by giving them a little talk about Josefa’s background and career and then I went on explaining each of the paintings on display. We talked about the omnipresence of religion in Baroque society, the growing importance of sugar, the seasonality of sweets and the symbolism of flowers. As in 17th century poetry, paintings were filled with metaphors and fauna and flora were often associated with Christian meaning. We identified each flower and talked about what it could have meant to 17th century viewers.

In order to make this session a bit more interactive and three-dimensional, I brought along some of my paper flowers, specifically the ones I made following Josefa’s very rigorous and accurate depictions. Most of them are native to Portugal, which makes it even more interesting in terms of general knowledge and conservation.

After the visit to the museum we went to @ximenamaier’s home, where we were treated to an excellent lunch, animated conversation, a talk on the history of tiles and a tile painting workshop.

I’ve written more about the whole experience on my substack, the link is in my bio.

⁨ قصف مدفعي مكثف وغير مسبوق يستهدف المناطق الشرقية لمدينة غزة.
تركّز القصف على مفترق حي الشجاعية، الواقع ضمن المناطق الخاضعة حديثًا لسيطرة جيش الاحتلال وضمن ما يُعرف بالخط الأصفر.
ويأتي هذا القصف في سياق استهدافات مدفعية متكررة تشهدها المناطق الشرقية لمدينة غزة بشكل يومي، ما يشكّل خطرًا متزايدًا على حياة السكان القاطنين بالقرب من الخط الأصفر، وسط استمرار التصعيد وتزايد المخاوف من اتساع رقعة الاستهداف.

Intense and unprecedented artillery shelling is targeting the eastern areas of Gaza City.

The shelling is concentrated around the Shuja’iyya neighborhood intersection, which has recently come under the control of the Israeli occupation forces and lies within what is known as the Yellow Line.

This comes amid daily artillery attacks on the eastern areas of Gaza City, posing an increasing threat to the lives of residents living near the Yellow Line, as the escalation continues and fears grow of further attacks.⁩

In our feels 🥹

#ChicagoFire 300th episode TONIGHT on NBC and next day on Peacock.

And be proud of yourself.
#explore #samaptisinhamahapatra #samaptimam #sapolaarmy #neet

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