Imperfect anthologies

Love!

I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store looking over the plums, one by one

I love Eve L. Ewing‘s poem “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store.”

poets.org/poem/i-saw-e...

Happy birthday! 🥳

An Austrian painter's beautiful presentation, from 1878, of various atmospheric conditions: including will-o'-the-wisp, a moonbow, and the Northern Lights: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges. Amanda Gorman. On a teal and gold background

wheels and color tiles

#art #photo #photography #bicycle #tiles #nightphotography #streetsnap #Tainan
©️skinskin

Eighteen small clustered lavender flowers with tiny, thin petals

Blue mistflower

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Well-behaved kitties! ❤️

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

A slightly blurry photo of a monarch butterfly hanging onto a leaf, with a clear chrysalis directly behind it

I was walking my dogs yesterday and happened upon a monarch, fresh out of the chrysalis! Info from the U.S.D.A.: The butterfly waits until its wings are dry to fly. The butterfly must hang upside down while its wings are inflating and hardening in order for the wings to form properly.

Heads up wrt this coming vaccine label change:
(I got a covid booster back in late June because I figured something like this was coming).

Great pairing!

A bee on a pumpkin orange cosmos flower

Happy bee

I liked "The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity" by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Brett Helquist

I know two astrophysicists married to poets. A good match, apparently :)

Alligator Alcatraz closing?
Detainees are
disappearing and being moved and we need help

Summer blooms streaming
Virginia Willows

#summer #stunday #blooms #NYBG
#Flowers #trees #beautiful #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #photographersofbluesky #beautifulthings

Photograph of dozens of people in a grassy park, on blankets and camp chairs, all reading

Silent Reading Picnic in Seattle yesterday.

Just 2 hours to sit and read, instrumental music in the background, and let your nervous system reset, in a setting where you aren’t “stealing time” to do so but rather being granted and encouraged to take it.

Would love to see this in more places.

Heart-shaped leaves, half in sunlight making that portion a bright lime green

Sunlight through Eastern redbud leaves

"The more I write, the more easy and comfortable it is to write. The less I write, the more difficult it becomes." -- YES!

The Antidote by Karen Russell
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys

A drawing of fireflies in a forest graveyard. The caption reads, "You don't have to get it all perfect in order to make a good life."

Happy Birthday! ❤️

There was a young man from Peru
whose limericks stopped at line two

There was a young man from Verdun

On 1 August 2008: Pauline Baynes passed away.

One of Tolkien's favoured artists, her illustrated works include Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Smith of Wootton Major. Her map of Middle-earth is notable for the amount of extra detail it includes. Photo © Brian Sibley