Karen Carpenter

@kcdirector

Theater-maker, collaborator, new play & musical incubator, artist-activist #HonorRoll🙏🏻🪷🧘🏻‍♀️🌊🏊🏻‍♀️🌎🕊️✨🦋🗽#Resist 🏳️‍⚧️ally🏳️‍🌈 🌻 🇺🇦 🚫👑🇺🇸💪🏻💙🪬 Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre To support my artistry, buy me a coff.ee/kcdirector ! 🙌🏻🎭🙌🏻

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Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· 2d

You can also drop a pin and “add a missing place”… Maybe if Google is inundated, it might have an effect. Although the company is non-responsive to most complaints… @searchliaison.bsky.social

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· 2d

@alisonletitiak.bsky.social Press and hold on the name to drop a pin. Then “suggest an edit”..

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· 2d

READ THIS 🧵

A line of scientists and researchers in white lab coats carrying black briefcases, messenger bags and folios, with their backs to us, walk from a pencil sketch of the White House to a red Canadian maple leaf.
Title in bold: AMERICA IS LOSING ITS BEST MINDS. Subtitle: “Canada is investing in science. America is investing in distraction.”
Above the White House illustration is another red maple leaf, a vertical line, and the statistic: 48 of 64 NEWLY RECRUITED RESEARCH LEADERS ARE COMING FROM U.S. INSTITUTIONS.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· 8d

Likewise! Greetings from NYC… 💙🌎 #OneWorld

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jul 26

🎉Happy 170th Birthday, George Bernard Shaw!! 📣✍🏻🎭💖

Quote from George’s Bernard Shaw’s commencement address to a graduating class, depicted in varied fonts:
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devoted itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch, which I’ve got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.“

16 Photographic images of George Bernard Shaw, at various ages, in sepia-tone, black and white, or colorized. They are arranged chronologically from young to old age in rows of four with varied expressions. And the words: comedy, wisdom, wit, romance, and insight, are overlaid in different fonts.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jul 23

🐾💖😃

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jul 1

Today’s act of resistance by Air Force Maj. Jason Watson on the Capitol steps. He was arrested by Capitol Hill Police shortly after this photo, and will likely face court-martial proceedings.

A photograph of Air Force Major Jason Watson in uniform standing on the Capitol steps, holding a black and white sign that says Impeach Convict Remove. A masked Capitol Hill Police officer appears above him in the archway at the top of the steps. Photo was taken July 1, 2026, just prior to the Major’s arrest.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jun 21

Happy Father’s Day, Dad! 🙏🏻 Our first without you…

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jun 8

A plague of locusts would be good, too. #FAGO

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 30

365/4 Days of Positivity The rain that makes all things grow…and the rivers and lakes possible.

Contemporary painting of a huge, billowing, flowering tree in the right foreground. The dark massive trunk and extending branches support a huge halo of tiny green leaves of all shades, and thousands upon thousands of flowers. There is a very small figure seated underneath the tree looking out over the vista of a very blue lake of waves dotted with sailboats, bordered by hills in soft focus on the left and in the distance.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 28

365/3 Days of Positivity Grateful for all the flowering trees and heather gardens of Ft. Tryon Park, on my morning walks!

Big clumps of white wisteria hang from a tree, its branches reaching skyward.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 25

365/2 Days of Positivity I am free to be…

A folded embroidered white linen handkerchief, edged in intricate teal-blue crocheted lace. Quote is stitched in black:
“Be kind to people.
Not because they’re nice,
but because
you are.

-Stephen Colbert

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 24

365/1 Days of Positivity Though the winds rage and rain pours down, today I am cozy in my little nest, with a cuppa tea.

Photograph of a windowsill in the foreground adorned with a glass bluebird tucked in one corner, and a cup of hot tea in a beautiful dark green mug adorned with flowers and swans, emblazoned with a large lavender K, trimmed in gold. Through the window in the soft foxes in the background is a black fire escape, a few inches of snow top the rungs and railings…

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 24

I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life Romeo & Juliet Act IV, Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday

“Starving the people to bring the regime to its knees.” Cartoon of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba: Depicted as a man with a green shirt - the flag of Cuba planted in his back - being held under water by the flag-dressed arm of American colonialism. (The part of his body still above water forms the shape of Cuba.) Cartoon by Tjeerd Royaards

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 24

“These boys are boys of ice” All's Well That Ends Well Act 2 - Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 24

For when his headstrong riot hath no curb / When rage and hot blood are his counsellors… - Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 22

“If something comes to light in the future about misconduct or malfeasance relating to the Trump family’s tax filings or businesses’ filings, as long as it took place before the agreement took effect, it cannot be the basis for a prosecution.”

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· May 22

I just canceled Paramount+ after Colbert’s final Late Show, and I encourage you to do the same... #cancelparamount #fkcbs #colbert

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Apr 24

WTF?? We won’t be able to escape their programming…

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Mar 20

🪻🌸🌼🌷Happy Spring, Jaye! Thank you for the inspiration! 🌷🌼🌸🪻 Good Morning, All! #LeadWithLove

A beautiful card with blue sky background, a sunny aura fills the center. The border is filled with stalks of bluebells, red dahlias, and sparkling butterflies. The quote at center reads “You can change someone’s life simply by leading with love. By listening without rushing. By holding back judgment. By seeing the Good, and then when they forgotten it in themselves. Never underestimate the power of your kindness. It matters more than you know.”

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Mar 17

🍀☺️Happy St. Patrick’s Day!☺️🍀

A big green shamrock shape on a darker green background, contains the quote “Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.” written in white script. In the lower right corner is the attribution -W.B. Yeats

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Mar 12

From a quick search, here are the universities contracted w /DHS (plus Carnegie Mellon and Northeastern): 🤬 U of M!

Partial of universities contracting with DHS for ICE: Auburn, Norwich, Texas A&M, Montana State, John’s Jopkins, SUNY Albany, UC San Diego.

Partial of universities contracting with DHS for ICE continued: Texas Tech, U of Washington, U of Rhode Island

Partial of universities contracting with DHS for ICE continued: U of Louisville, U of Southern California, Brigham Young

Partial of universities contracting with DHS for ICE continued: U of Tulsa, U of Michigan, UT San Antonio, Georgia State, U of So Mississippi, Mississippi State

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Mar 12

GM, Brenda and the #BreakfastCrew Resistance!! Happy Thursday! 💐☀️🧘🏻‍♀️ The coffee is delicious and the pool is refreshing. Grateful for the hang…

Closeup of a tropical colored mug of coffee that reads “Joy is an act of resistance!” held by a brunette lounging poolside. The sun is shining on her and the pool, lounge chairs and umbrella in the background.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Feb 16

One of the best performances ever by a leading man…Duvall in The Great Santini. #RIPDuvall

A photo of Robert Duvall grinning as The Great Santini, wearing a khaki uniform with a chest full of military ribbon bars, and smoking a cigar.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Feb 1

Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. ~Julius Caesar, II, i #ShakespeareSunday

A mock TIME magazine cover with the title TRUMP at top instead, featuring a painted image of him smiling with a crown on his head, a city skyline in the background. A headline appears in white type in the lower left corner, that reads “LONG LIVE THE KING”

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jan 5

I’m here for it..! #moviesky

In the foreground, Butch and Sundance on horseback stop to look back at the woman following them…a wan sky and the sagebrush lining the trail behind them.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Jan 1

Time-to-be is sometimes forgotten. I will step lightly into this New Year. And still let feelings of awe excite me. Spend more time in nature, and do less staring at screens. Be generous. Be kind. Happy New Year, Bluesky!

A beach with rolling surf at dawn, the sun is peeking through a stone arch that extends into the water from a rocky cliff at the end of the shore.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Dec 14

Happy Hanukah to all who celebrate! 🕎✡️

A card expressing Hanukkah wishes in a blue sky bubble scattered with little white Stars of David and snowflakes, the sentiment is “Wishing you a joyous, festive, heartwarming and bright Hanukkah”. The bubble is surrounded by a darker blue ground full of little white and light blue diamond shapes.

Karen Carpenter@kcdirector· Dec 13

🤣😂🤣Thanks so much, Argent!