Leona Lee

@leonalee.bsky.social

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Please Mask Up! Disability Rights, Affordable and Accessible Housing, and Disabled Debtors Cohort with the Debt Collective. https://debtcollective.org/working-groups/disabled-debtors-cohort/ and silly cats & Chicago stuff.

light blue siding on house, behind a leafless brown tree. on right hand side can be seen a tiny green lizard with a white throat and tummy, vertical on tree trunk. it's about 4" long.
snow on palm- like trees, at the bottom of photo is a fence made of brown dried bamboo, that encloses a small fish pond.
the gutter between asphalt street & strip of grass before the sidewalk. dried brown leaves, with spots of white.
a little beagle, her face is brown white & black, she has big brown eyes and floopy silky brown ears. she's looking at the camera, wearing a bright orange sweater. she's 6 years old.
poster of artwork from 'Life in cartoon motion' , very colorful, with a few photos & some confetti added to the bottom.
cover of book "Chicago Then & Now" a sepia photo showing Chcago river & old buildings
1 foot all evergreen shrubs. you can just barely see a little dusting of snow on the top branches.
cover of paperback book "Chicago '68" by David Farber: a b/w photo of an armed police officer in a riot-gear mask.
four old-fashioned silver forks, with a rose pattern on the handle called 'Spring Garden'. they are lying on turquoise fabric.
Blue and red graphic on grey background: October 23, 7pm ET/ 4pm PT. T.P.D. Community Discussion. What is going on with 'Total and Permanent Disability Federal student loan discharge?' + debt, disability, and fighting for public goods under Trump. Red square Logo for Debt Collective. bit.ly/TPDCommunity .
a long dresser drawer eaten by mold, the pieces of veneer separated. the color is a grey-ish brown.
A green Asparagus Fern in a small 4" black pot. it looks feathery, like dill. sort-of!
a red stoneware casserole dish with handles.
books in an opened cardboard box, including 'The Amateur Taxidermist' that my father had, the title always struck me as funny.
3 men's polyester Snap-on ties from 1970s, my Dad used to wear on sales calls, a mustard-colored, red one in center & blue-green on right. ruler in photos to show the red one is 4" wide at bottom!
view of a rectangular oak dining table on white tile kitchen floor, it has 6 legs and the top really needs to be sanded & varnished, then it will last another 100 years!
5 men's ties, one is pale yellow with white circles, one is green and Super Shiny! one is navy with red print, next is the color of Super-Shiny dog poop, the last is pale blue & yellow small check print.
a 2-tiered super ruffly white nylon slip, with small red polka dots, hanging on a wooden door.
a stack of legal size manilla folders full of newspaper clippings. they are organized roughly into History/Cemeteries/Churches, Navy Pier, etc.
a faux-needlepoint handbag, black with multicolored flowers, and a gold chain strap.
a stack of yellowed paper, including 1950s newspaper articles in English, and some smaller, tattered papers with Japanese characters, some in black ink, some in red ink.
color reproduction of a painting of Mary & Jesus, prined on a cardboard calendar.
7 empty banker's boxes with lids stacked in my hallway. they have a lot of tape!
image of a child's book about angels, other Catholic pamphlets.
there is a teeny tiny pair of gold metal tweezers that comes with this pill box. It was missing & I just found it again, it is too cute for words. about 1" long
livingroom floor i the temporary apt, suddenly today I have found puddles of clear water, and seams of the linoleum floor tile are wet & buckling. this phoo shows wet bottom of magazine box & buckled floor tiles
image of front of the American Heritage Pict ure History of ww2 by C.L. Sulzberger
yellowed newspaper clippings about the Titanic.
a big old tree, the trunk & branch overlaps so it looks like 2 trees hugging.
two road maps of Nebraska from 1968, brochures for Nebraskalad Days, postcards of a rodeo, & booklet about Fort Kearny
Social Justice weekly, a 16"x11" weekly newspaper from 1939. This headline reads "Hitler-Salin Union Pogrom fo Financiers" It is old, yellowed and brittle.
an old, brittle, yellowed newspaper called Social Justice weekly, from Royal Oak, Michigan. the headline is "How Roosevelt can be 3rd term president." The photo is b/w of a large fancy Christmas mass sevice
"What about Bats?" "New Mexico Historical Society 1968", "Jim White's Story of Carlsbad Caverns," "The Big Cave" and "Carlsbad Caverns", 5 booklets against a white background.
a music/song book opened to pages "The Rio Grande" and "Great Granddad"
leaflet showing a hand grabbing Madang, text is in red "Han bilog guvman kisim bak nau" that I have found translated from Pidgin English to be "The hand of the government is taking New Guinea back now." on the reverse is Australian artwork- coats of arms, kangaroo & ostrich.
b/w photos of planes marked "Soviet MIG 3", "Italian bombers" and "North American bombers'
looks like litle brass parts of something, the stem part is threaded like a screw, the other end comes to a point, but it's not sharp. there are 8 of them.
tiny bags containing different colored glass beads.
a group of 7 items lined up on white background, jewelry-making items. lower left corner is a square gold thing with an oval portrait of the Pope. It need a new home!
two large monitor lizards hugging in a pond
lion and lamb done in oil crayons, same w/Marilyn Monroe. 2 linoleum prints, collage on bottom
several tubes of acrylic paint against a white background
a huge old tree, which appears to be the trunks of two trees, hugging.
my livingroom floor, right down the center walking pathway you can see the wet paper towels and wet puppy pads due to under-floor-radiator leak problem. that specific water connection was turned off last week, but water is still coming up.
these images show 5 paperback books: The Moher Tongue, A Passion for Books, Dictionaries of Symbols & highly unusual words, and Know-it-all.
my linoleum faux-wood livingroom floor, with a row of paper towels with brownish wet water stains, and puppy pads cut into rectangles, and cans of cat food and soup I have been using to weigh down the absorbent layers. it's a mess!
color photo showing the wet paper towels & puppy pads lined up on my lovely livingroom floor.
color photo of two hippos, mouths open wide, appearing to scream at one another
color cartoon of dogs dressed like humans, standing in a recording studio. the one on the right in sunglasses is saying "Fellas, it sounded great, but I gotta have MORE DOORBELL!"
light blue pee pads on a floor covered with faux-wood vinyl. brownish puddles of water where they soaked thru.
my livingroom floor in front of the couch, now covered in light blue square puppy pee pads, with cans of soup weighing them down.
trunk of a large tree on a city street. it looks as if two trees are hugging,