Karen Smithey

@ksmithey.bsky.social

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Winter is coming. Vote in November! I’m an artist, avid gardener, and mom to three weird couch-eating cats and a handful of stray ducks. Also three children, lol. Please, no dms.

Black cat with green eyes and a whispy white stripe down his nose, peering out from a little hexagonal container

Glass vase of very double, intense deep pink roses.

Bouquet of beautiful cut roses in a vintage crock

The lovely Alnwick rose. A warm pink blossom that emerges very cupped, with the silhouette of a peony.

Hannah Arendt warned us in her work “The Origins of Totalitarianism” that the goal of constant lying wasn’t to persuade people to belief a specific lie, but rather to destroy their capacity to distinguish between truth and falsehood, leading to a state of complete subjugation.

First bouquet of 2026 contains a mix of roses in different colors