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Refuge/Micro sanctuary in Central TX. Share re-homing and animals in need of rescue.

07/08/2024

"Harm to mind
One of the key detrimental influences of capitalism on mental health is the production of inequality. For example, in the 30 years following 1977, 60% of the increase in US national income went to just the top 1% of earners; this is projected to become even more extreme without tax adjustment (Piketty, 2015). Piketty argues that inequality is not an accident but an intrinsic feature of capitalism (Piketty, 2013), while free-market economists argue that substantial inequality is good for the economy (Hasanov and Izraeli, 2011) and advocates of capitalism promote inequality as a great good (Tamny, 2016). Thus, the prevailing view is that capitalist policy-making creates inequality.

The link between inequality and mental health is well-documented (Mangalore et al., 2007; Rao et al., 2012; Patel, 2020). However, the precise mechanisms mediating the interaction between gender, identity, economic inequality and poor mental health are uncertain. It has been suggested that associations between poverty and mental health are not just a matter of material living conditions, but mediated by relative poverty or inequality, this being fundamentally a “relation between people” (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2017, 2018)."

--Testing hypotheses about the harm that capitalism causes to the mind and brain: a theoretical framework for neuroscience research
Danae S. Kokorikou, 1 Ioannis Sarigiannidis, 2 Vincenzo G. Fiore, 3 Beth Parkin, 4 Alexandra Hopkins, 5 Wael El-Deredy, 6 Laura Dilley, # 7 , † and Michael Moutoussiscorresponding author # 8 , 9 , * , †

07/08/2024

Same road 2 different morning sunrises.

06/08/2024

I stop and move the animals that have been hit mostly because it's just the decent thing to do, although the person who hit the poor creature should have the decency to do so in the first place.

I also move them because I have seen the bodies of scavengers close by as well as witnessing them get hit.

I take pictures of them, as a memorial because they are all individuals and our human societies are terribly insensitive to the carnage we cause all around us.

This is a young male "feral hog" looked approximately 6-9 months old.

People hate feral hogs but people are the reason for them.
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04/08/2024

Chuy is the equine love of my life. I love this horse more than words can express. He's good to my daughter. He talks to me everytime he sees me and not just for food. He enjoys baths, grooming, and just to be next to us.

04/08/2024

Oh the skies taunt me with their beautiful displays of magnificence. Fleeting, ever changing, never the same. Revealing itself to those who pay attention.

04/08/2024

He decays as the forests wither. His bugle sounds like a screech of the dying. His world crumbles around him and so does he.

A once noble beast has slowly turns into a monster at no fault of his own.

I don't know the last time I made anything.
Zombie elk King Sketch done in sharpie marker.

03/08/2024

If you look carefully you can see all of her bladder stones 😬
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31/07/2024

"The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it."

Eliot Coleman

30/07/2024

Heart shaped prickly pear cacti are my favorite
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27/07/2024

Ghosty things.
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27/07/2024

My daughter's depiction of Oli as we listen to It Was Written in Blood 🖤🎶

26/07/2024

Beetch always trying to lick me in the mouth. 🥲
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25/07/2024

I do be a scrappy bitch sometimes 🖤
995 lbs all by myself!!
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25/07/2024

4 years ago when Lyla would lose her absolute mind going on a walk with Tempa and she couldn't hold the leash all by herself. I wasn't allowed to touch the leash at all. Sometimes, when the stars aligned properly, we were able to allow it.

23/07/2024

Nutzos. 🐾🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🐾

22/07/2024

🎶This is for my friends
Who put needles in their veins
Who society erased
(Hope) their children all escape
This is to the men
Who wish death upon my name
Tried to push me to my grave
Swore I'd never f**k again

I have spent my life, chasing things
That have only brought me pain
In the end, when I'm dead
Hope it was for something🎶

22/07/2024

Me too dryer, me too.

22/07/2024

Me too dryer, me too

21/07/2024

Axis deer. Female. Originally from India, brought over for people to hunt, now "invasive" and vilified. They are on ranches where you can pay to shoot them. They are free roaming having escaped these ranches, you can shoot them at any time. I have also found many of them this way, having been hit by a car. When will humans stop this nonsense?
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21/07/2024

"...humans now occupy or have seriously altered nearly all of the spaces outside our parks and preserves. Each of us carries an inherent responsibility to preserve the quality of earth's ecosystems. When we leave the responsibility to a few experts (none of whom hold political office), the rest of us remain largely ignorant of earth stewardship and how to practice it. The conservation of Earth's resources, including its living biological systems, must become part of the everyday culture of us all, worldwide."

Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

20/07/2024

He's my safe space. And always in my space ❤️
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19/07/2024

Mmmmm home grown vine ripened ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤

19/07/2024

I think they are gekko eggs?
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16/07/2024

Green Treefrog
Hyla cinerea

14/07/2024

I just love x-rays.
Both dogs were hit by cars, first one for sure, second one assumed.
First dog had some shattering in the sinus area of his skull. The second dog had a shattered pelvis. Both went home!
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14/07/2024

This deer had been hit over a year ago. Today I stopped to collect his skull, part of his spine, scapulas, and ribs. Bones have always fascinated me and although very unfortunate how he died, the scientific part of me can't help but admire and analyze the remains of the once living.

Death will come for us all, I stare it in the face often.
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13/07/2024

The stray pitty puppy from the last post and this stray kitten both came in the same day, were humanely euthanized, and made my choice to make and keep ink prints for all the stray babes euthanized on my shifts.
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13/07/2024

Decided that every stray bebe gets an ink print to be remembered by.

This poor baby boy came in as a stray. He still had is baby teeth. He was in terrible condition (septic from an attack) and the best thing for him was to release him from his suffering body.

RIP angel baby.
I'll always remember you.
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13/07/2024

They would be my Cerberus if they shared a body.
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07/07/2024

Wolf Spider
Family: Lycosidae

About 200 species live in the USA and about 2300 worldwide making wolf spiders the most common spider globally.

Second picture: mamma wolf spider carrying her ~ 100 babies. They carry them for about a week!

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Dinner time for the babies. Love pigs, don't eat them. #piggies #friendsnotfood #dinnertime #refuge #microsanctuary

" Finally, ideological manipulation convinces us that this order of oppression is natural, desirable, and beneficial for all. This, in turn, drives the processes of exploitation in the first two parts of Nibert's theory. To understand how the oppression of animals seems natural to us, one need not look further than the average grocery store. Shelves are lined with the products made from the bodies of animals and their excretions; our coats are made of leather and down; our shoes are made of hide. To the vast majority of us, this seems normal. Most of us give the consumption of animals and their products about as much thought as we do the oxygen we breathe. Whites who benefit from white privilege infrequently, if ever, have to think about the nature of their privilege. They don't have to understand its history, its origins, or its implications to benefit and accept it as natural. They don't even have to know that it *exists*. Much as whites in our society enjoy the economic and social benefits of whiteness, all of us humans enjoy the economic and social benefits of our species. In the same regard, we dont often have to think about its history, origins, and implications to enjoy the benefits of being, as many remind me when arguing my veganism,"on the top of the food chain,'" --- Making a Killing -- Bob Torres

BB loves belly rubs!!

My girl BB starting to get comfortable finally 🥰🥰 🐽🐖 🐽🐖 🐽🐖 #pigmom #veganforthem #pigsarefriendsnotfood #texas

At home abcess treatment.

At home hoof abcess care. Cooperation optional 😘. He had a vet appointment also but had to reschedule due to emergencies at vet clinic. #hoofcare #farrierapprentice #vettech #horses #equine #rescuehorses #killpensave #centex #texas

Reposting one of my favorite pieces I apologize for the lack of new work and art posts. SO BUSY! But I'm getting back in the groves. Life is full of ebbs and flows, activity and dormancy. The rythms of life are not at all concerned with human time and calendars. Opposum Acrylic on 18x20 stretched canvas @starting.at.the.roots.art 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 🖌️ 🎨 #supportcreatives #opossumsofinstagram #acrylicpaint #artezapaint #opossumpainting #startingattheroots #startingattherootsart #veganmammaa #veganartist #veganart #animalart #notpests #marsupial #goodmammas #animalpaintings #oddballs #veganfortheanimals😻🐈🐱🐩🐶🐁🐀🐱🐔🐓🐰🐹🐐🐑🐏🐦🐥🐤🐣🐺🐃🐂🐄🐮🐴🐗🐧🐍🐸🐽🐷🐖🐘🐨🐒🐵🐯🐻🐠🐟🐋🐊🐪🐫🐡🐙🐚🐬🐌🐛🐜🐝🐞🐲🐉🐾

Three days of growth 🌱 This is the high intensity light group of my bio lab The low light and dark groups are barely sprouting. 🙃✨ I just love spring time. 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 #biolab #seedsprouting #urbangardening #permacultureenthusiast #growlight #plantshaveprotein #beanplant #seeds #plantbasedagriculture #greenhouse #indoor #springtime #planting #education #experiments

I love making these ☺️ Ahhhhh I just can't wait to transform this upcoming plot. Lots to do! Lots to do! Plants, art, and veterinary medicine-- mixed with philosophy and intuition... I feel this best way to describe the backbone of such a massive path this life has unfolded for me. I hunger to learn and become restless when I don't. This has led me to great understanding and sympathy. While having such an active imagination and spitfire train of thought comes with many struggles and downfalls, it has brought me to exactly where I need to be. I can rub people the wrong way and I'm too intense, or I am so reserved and observant, I am seen as robotic or bitchy... 🤷I don't know what to tell you, I'm dead ass passionate about healing, restoration and kindness. And when I'm in a toxic environment I can't hide it's effects on me. There definitely is a struggle between telling it like it is, being respectful at the same time, and realizing when I'm wrong as well as my own faults. I don't always get it right, but I do always reflect and work forward. Happy growth my friends. 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 #growthandacceptance #growingplants #growingpains #shadowwork #vegansmallbusniess #veganartworks #veganfortheanimals #greenhouse #winter #spring #gardeningwithtoddlers #sanctuaryinthemaking #animalrights #humanrights #education #ecologicalgardening #ecosocialism

Trying to avoid breakdown, but this might be part of it🙃🙃🙃🙃 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ #veganmammaa #holdittogether #truelove #lovestory #dealwithmysh*t #manic #highsandlows #lbgtq #adoptdontshop🐾 #puppylove

Another day, another day. Depression, anxiety, please go away. Please enjoy my foolishness. 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 #scaredsh*tless #fool #dancydance #wigglewithit #dance #shakeit #mentalhealth #movement #veganforf**kinlife #existentialdread #dopamine #artistsoninstagram #veganmamma #veganpainters

Adventures to the ER. All babes deserve medical attention. Young, old, happy, scared, rich, poor, cute, ugly...all of them. No matter that we all are about to move cross country in 4 weeks. If anyone feels inclined to help me with this emergency bill and GI panel you can send help to my PayPal-- [email protected] I appreciate everyone regardless of if you can help or not ❤️ As always I have paintings and commissions available for sale @starting.at.the.roots.art as well to help pay for this, and reimburse my moving funds. 😅😅 💉 🐈 🏥 💉 🐈 🏥 💉 🐈 🏥 💉 🐈 🏥 💉 🐈 🏥 💉 🐈 🏥 #ERvet #catsofinstagram #storytime #bigscare #sendhelp #vetbill #medicalattention #vegafortheanimals #vettech #emergency #diagnosis #gidisease #sanctuaryinthemaking #suppprtlivingartists #sustainableliving #creatives #vegansmallbusniess #veganartworks

My poor baby 🌌🌌 Please send 💕 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ #animaladoption #animalhealth #rescuecat #adoptdontshop🐾 #ERvet #carride #medical #veterinarycare #animalmedicine #veganfortheanimals #health #cathealth #scared

This will support us one day. Either way I'll still be making these. Stashed away in the room? Or shown relentlessly? I chose the later. Enjoy. 🖌️ ❤️ 🖌️ ❤️ 🖌️ ❤️ 🖌️ ❤️ 🖌️ ❤️ 🖌️ ❤️ #artrepeneur #sanctuaryinthemaking #animalportraits #veganartists #vegansmallbusniess #permacultureenthusiast #culture #art #artofcompassionproject #multimediaartist #artgallery #progressshots #tiktok

Go follow my art account please🖌️💙🖤 @starting.at.the.roots.art 💙 "Opaline Gentry" acrylic on reclaimed wood board 2019 🖤 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 #veganartworks #whitetaileddeer #animalartist #acrylicpaint #woodboard #vegansmallbusniess #supportsanctuaries #veganartist #painting🎨 #artrepeneur #artworkarchive #animalsarenotours

I loved doing these babies 😍 👩‍🎨 🖌️ 👩‍🎨 🖌️ 👩‍🎨 🖌️ 👩‍🎨 🖌️ 👩‍🎨 🖌️ 👩‍🎨 🖌️ #vegansmallbusniess #artistslifeforme #acryliconcanvas #piglets #animalsarenotours #veganartworks #adoptdontshop❤️ #commissions #startingattherootsart #artrepeneur #cuteanimals #painting🎨 #processvideo #animalartist #multimediaartist

Just a friendly PSA 🐠 🐟 🐠 🐟 🐠 🐟 🐠 🐟 🐠 🐠 🐟 🐠 #fishesarefriendsnotfood #adoptdontshop❤️ #fish #betta #tetra #aquarium #animalsarenotours #animalsanctuaryinthemaking #animalliberationnow #veganmamma #cuteanimals #petshop

12 years young💕💕💕🐕 My best friend. 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 #spaday #bathtime #badbitch #dogwash #adoptdontshop🐾

When it hits, you know.

Adventures of Birby and Lyla❤️ Always adopt or rescue! Don't buy other animals. 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 🧒 🐦 #birdwoman #birdsofinstagram #adoptdontshop🐾 #momsagainstdairy #budgiesofinstagram #veganforf**kinlife #veganmamma

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