Traci

Sierra Nevada mountains just north of LA, CA, USA. Jagged snow covered peaks rise above green trees and a yellowish plain. A small blue lake peeks around a bend.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel -Maya Angelou

Pic of the day

#photography

"Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul."

Bob Dylan

Casey Means is laughably unqualified to be Surgeon General.

Wow.

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Fireworks above Levi's Stadium as the jumbo screen reads THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE

With much love to you all, let this stand as a reminder of why we fight so hard, risk so much to help the people in our communities.
If we do not, if we withhold our help and stand silently, we are not better than hate.

Every story. Short or not. And track my progress (aka: percentages/pages) religiously. Don’t. Know. Why.

Hahaha my characters are always doing this to me. Like, who’s in control here.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

Wtf America. We're so much better than this. Am I wrong? Am I delusional? Land of the free. Home of the brave. wtf is happening.

So wrong. So heinous.

Same

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Reading books can help you live longer—here's how “When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.”

www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

#booksky

GEORGIA… 🔥

Well this pertains to both what I’m writing and what I love to read (in part)… knowing the little bit I know about publishing, in a perfect world, I don’t expect to have my book out in 2026… but there are plenty other bookish books for everyone to enjoy. 📚💙

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

Minnesota is the best of us.

I love that! How creative.

Revenge of the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell book cover

5/5🌟 read for #bookclub. So interesting, both the content and the way it’s written, and also a little terrifying in a too relevant kinda way (if you do the math). An important concept to understand and the examples were wow. #nonfiction #booksky #bookreview

Now I need it too. 👀 (I see some on Etsy)

It’s been interesting how—in writing a novel—I’m learning you can intentionally start a story and then it feels like it very much starts to shape itself. From big strokes to finer details to scrap that and follow this. Humility becomes a requirement. #writingcommunity

Journey to the center of the earth by Jules Verne book cover

I read my first book on Kindle with immersive reading. Why isn’t this a default where audio is available? The book was #journeytothecenteroftheearth by #julesverne - I could whiz by all the *many* hard to pronounce words, instead staying in the story, + other benefits. 5/5🌟 enjoyed #classic #booksky

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

— 1984: by George Orwell

#nineteeneightyfour #georgeorwell

To believe empathy is bad or toxic is to not have empathy. Empathy is an enemy of tyranny because it is loud and unapologetic and it only grows—it never backs down, will not fear, won’t wear armor and yet it is incapable of dying.

To believe empathy is bad or toxic is to not have empathy. Empathy is an enemy of tyranny because it is loud and unapologetic and it only grows—it never backs down, will not fear, won’t wear armor and yet it is incapable of dying.

Great book, love Twain!

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison book cover

💙📚 5/5🌟 Idk something in me just sings when I read prose and story telling this good, world issues be damned. #Beloved was great, and loved this more. What ya got next #tonimorrison? Just sign me right up. I’ll be sad, and changed for the better when I finish reading through all her books. #bookrecs

Excited for this awesome opportunity! 📚💙

I signed up for this today- cant wait. 💙📚

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