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Jan Poston Day

@jpostonday.bsky.social

Customer-obsessed community builder, Airedale owner, beekeeper, and DC Statehood NOW advocate. I work for AWS and my opinions are my own.

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Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 6d ago

100 years ago I’m leading the construction of Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier National Park in Montana; being the company cook and getting to name landmarks along that same road; a mason in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania prior to turning Prudential insurance agent; or Dept store owner’s secretary.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 2w ago

These days I find myself thinking back to the US Hostages in Iran who weren’t released until minutes after Reagan took office. Even with ongoing negotiations, I suspect the Iranians won’t consider allowing open, free and safe travel through the Straight of Hormuz until there is a new US President.

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spotted this classic in a little free library. It instantly transported me to my tween years when I spent hours poring over these pages seeking clues to the site of the buried bejeweled hare treasure! I was living my best Encyclopedia Brown summer days. I’m looking forward to re-reading this!

Cover of the illustrated book “Masquerade” (1979) by Kit Williams. It tells the story of the Moon who fell in love with the Sun. She entrusts Jack Hare to deliver an ornament made of gold in the shape of a hare and decorated with gems to the Sun. Along the way he loses it. The illustrations hold clues to where the real-life golden, bejeweled hare ornament was buried in rural England. The author promised the ornament to the first person who wrote to him with the correct location. It was found in 1982. My tween self was so sad and also amazed by this news.
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Timeline cleanse. Please enjoy this photo of a peony I took a few weeks ago. Beauty is all around us and can be fleeting. Take a moment to enjoy it and offer you respite from the stresses and chaos impacting your life.

A closeup of a pink and cream colored peony flower in my Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington DC.
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Women—relish and revel in your Act III in life! Menopause is a gift that evolution gives us because our experience, skills and wisdom were too important to our collective survival to risk in childbearing. Males don’t have an Act III thus there is no name for this experience. Must-read thread!

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WASHINGTON DC Beekeeper report: 15 medium supers harvested this weekend for a total yield of 450 pounds of honey with 17.5% water measurement. Our Linden nectar flow will arrive in about 10 days. This season is off to a strong start!

The interior of my Honda Fit with 15 ten-frame medium honey supers stacked up post-harvest. I was returning them to the hives for the bees to fill up again. These supers take up the entire rear seat and trunk area. This car is like a TARDIS it can fit so much stuff in it!
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This story is sad on so many levels and even with this in-depth story we can’t know all the details. But I came away wondering why the farmer didn’t explore more business strategies: making value-add products, have a beef herd with the male calves, sell direct to consumers. Instead, so hidebound.

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 3mo ago

Brad voted Trump bc he promised to be “the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had.” Instead, tariffs cut Brad’s export market; the war surged fertilizer prices by 70%. So Brad arranged his family’s final sale. “Farm is going dry,” said the ad. “Every cow must go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I will actively campaign against any DC mayoral candidate who wants to move The Sphere to DC or have DC negotiate to buy out the minority ownership of the Washington NFL football team. DC does not need a leader who will be distracted by these types of projects that don’t benefit DC residents.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another slightly long-shot idea: D.C. mayoral contender Vincent Orange says that he's upset that Prince George's County is getting the second Sphere. "The Sphere should be on New York Avenue!" he says, responding to a question about economic development in D.C.

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Helsinki and looking to learn about “The Father of Modern Finland?” Visit the Mannerheim Museum (mannerheim-museo.fi). The hour-long tour provides context and detail to understand Mannerheim’s family history, his ambitions, interests, and drive to form the independent nation of Finland.

Mannerheim-museo

Mannerheim-museo on käynyt läpi laajan peruskorjauksen, jossa Mannerheimin koti on kunnostettu historiaa kunnioittaen. Uudistuksen myötä avautuu vaiheittain myös uusi kahvila- ja tapahtumatila, museok...

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Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This may be the best title for an artwork I have ever seen. Thank you nameless curator /translator at The Ateneum, Helsinki for your deep understanding of the artist, this piece, and language.

A sculpture in reddish bronze of a man’s unsmiling head. His right eye appears to be bandaged. The title of this piece in English is “Humourless Git” The label for the piece reads in full: BEN RENVALL 1903-1979, suomalainen / finsk / Finnish Tosikko, 1959 Tråkmåns Humourless Git pronssi brons bronze Kansallisgallerian kokoelma | Finlands Nationalgalleris samling | The Finnish National Gallery Collection Ateneum B I 575, hankittu | inköpt | purchased 1960
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Visited the Turku Art Museum (Finland) today. Can recommend the coffee cake from the cafe. Also, very tempted to steal this painting “Late Autumn” (1890) by Edvard Westman. The Sandra Kantanen exhibition was well worth a visit too! The scale and delicate color of her “Meadow” series — brilliant!!

This ~30x20” oil painting shows scene of grey skies, and a marsh with a copse of silver birch trees reflected in the water. The trees are bare. The ground is wet and turning brown but some green and gold grass remains. The painting is framed by a 6-inch deep, sparely decorated gold gilded frame. Detail of the painting focused on a small group of 3 birch trees. They are so life-like. Detail showing the reflection of trees in the water. The painter has captured the effect with just a few masterful brush strokes
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I love this painting by Camille Pissarro “Hoarfrost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire” (1888) that I saw in-person at the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” in December 2025. This scene, especially the contrast of fire and smoke, enthralls me! It draws me in!

Hoarfrost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire 1888 Oil paint on canvas Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, MB-Pis-02 By the late 1880s, Pissarro was experimenting with a neo-impressionist technique of short brushstrokes in pure hues in the pursuit of greater luminosity. Here, he depicted a young woman who has kindled a fire in a field on a windy winter day. The contrasts work together harmoniously: light and shadow, dampness and dryness, and the tension between the steadiness of the branch the woman holds and the unconstrained flickering of the fire. A finales de la década de 1880, Pissarro estaba experi-mentando con la técnica neoimpresionista de pinceladas cortas con tonalidades puras, con el objetivo de conseguir mayor luminosidad. Aquí, representa a una muchacha que ha encendido un fuego en un campo, un día ventoso de invierno. Los contrastes funcionan en armonía: la luz y la sombra, la humedad y la sequedad, y la tensión entre la firmeza de la rama que sostiene la mujer y el movimiento libre e indómito del fuego.Detail of the painting focused on the heart of the fire. The contrast of the dark ash and fuel, the orange and gold flame, and the white and grey smoke draws me in . I can hear the crackling of the twigs as they burn and the sound of the wind as it takes the smoke .Detail of the peasant girl’s dress. Her skirt is red, she wears a dark grey-green blouse with a pair of red and white shawls over top for warmth. Her light blue apron and skirt ripple in the wind. She must be wearing multiple layers under that skirt to keep warm. The contrast between her red skirt and the bright green grass of the background makes the grass seem so alive to me. Detail showing a peasant boy - maybe 5 or 6 years old. Is this her little brother? He is dressed warmly in a red-brown top, a thick olive-brown scarf, and a grey-black hat. His hands are raised towards the fire to warm them. Cows in the distance graze on the hoarfrost covered grass. The sun is bright but its warmth hasn’t beaten the frost… yet. Pissarro’s small brush strokes and use of color bring a depth and movement to the scene that animate this image with light and energy.
Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Busy day today: - fretted to distraction about the fate of 93M Iranians - saved my 91yo mother from a spammer claiming to be my sister needing bail post-car wreck - had 2 customer meetings and 5 internal meetings - wrote a detailed conference proposal and edited 3 others -hosted dinner party -done

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Andor was such a high bar I now won’t watch anything in the Star Wars universe that is not up to that level. Life is too short for mediocre and lazy writing that assumes the fans will watch because they always have. Fans deserve better. Fans should demand better.

Ardwulf the Traveller@ardwulf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Andor earns everything and overplays nothing. The music, cinematography, production design, costumes, writing, dialogue and performances are never less than stellar. It is nearly impossible to make tv, or Star Wars, this good.

Jan Poston Day@jpostonday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I went to a beautiful Celebration of Life today. Through the tears of loss and sorrow in the standing room only space there was laughter and joy. Today was a reminder to live boldly, say yes, make that text/phone call, find and nurture your community, write the letter, be present, laugh, and love ❤️