Rebecca S

There are more of us than there are of them.

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"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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Had dinner at my girl's apartment. She cooked for me. Life is hard, but I am so lucky in so many ways. We talked books, zines, workshops, making things with our hands. She and her friends are solid, good, and will make this world better.

Orpheus returned to the world songless and broken. People watched and said nothing, knowing his wife was lost. One day they’d tell stories: how he chased her beyond death, brought her out of the earth and clutched her to him till at dawn a neighbour found them in the garden inarticulate. Autumn has come down from the north with its poems and shadows, its old memories. Each year we shrink from the journey, gather like moths round lamps, dance at the dark. Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. Better to settle as the toad settles, believing in his end and his endless nativity. From 'Sapo' by Rob Hindle

Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.

From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
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Just made an extra donation to our local food bank because it's something I _can_ do. Maybe you can too?

Precisely that...

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Some days I can't distinguish between grief for my beloved, grief for my country, grief for the innocents, grief for the planet. It's all just one deep long howl of grief.

Happy Birthday to the late and great Maureen Seaton. 🕯️🤍✨

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The Arnolfini Portrait proves that scale is not the measure of presence.
A small surface can contain whole architectures of looking,
worlds folded inward until the gaze itself becomes monumental.

Jan van Eyck 1434-

I was in WRJ too! I love the giant puppet plan.

They are terrific! Smart, funny, creative, beautiful!

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

On the streets of Vermont towns today, inspiring and funny signs everywhere. Lobster, shark, chicken, hippo, and Godzilla costumes. Peaceful chanting, talking, honking, waving, dogs and bikes and babies and us old folks singing Pete Seeger tunes. Did this heart good. Thank you to everyone out there!

An absolutely brilliant interview with The Maestro, @worstjourney.bsky.social, by the excellent @paulclammer.bsky.social !

TELEPHONE Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

Some magical people made this magical thing... a message whispered through 1,394 artists around the world. The only thing I've written in the last 1.5 years is my contribution to this beautiful chain.

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Love after Love Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Love after Love. Derek Walcott.

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I meant to say, he loved Dickinson and so the reference to "More Life — went out" meant so much to here, especially in context of your beautiful poem about your father 💔

What a kindness. Thank you. <3

Thank you for this gift, Éireann. All the gifts you keep sharing. Pattern and form, poetry and flowers, earth and rain, makers and thinkers are what help us find the courage we need every day.

I want to go back, out of the bad stories, But there’s always the possibility that the next one . . . No, it’s another almond tree, or a ring-swallowing frog . . . Yet they are beautiful as we people them With ourselves. They are empty as cupboards. To spend whole days drenched in them, waiting for the next whisper, For the word in the next room. This is how the princes must have behaved, Lying down in the frugality of sleep.

I want to go back, out of the bad stories,

John Ashbery

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Thank you so much, Lauren! You are so kind. Sending you wishes for a year of beauty, health, and joy. 🍯 🍎