Autumn G Quigley

I work in a county with so many Sasquatch sightings that Sasquatch is legally protected. So yeah, I both know people and have met multiple people with stories. They're mostly pretty boring other than the fact that they are Sasquatch stories.

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I say the same and have no explanation.

Thank you! And thanks for reading. I feel like I could have written twice as much, and the fact that I think that much about it is a reason to leave in and of itself.

Thanks for sharing!

Onward: On leaving Instagram — Autumn G Quigley For years I’ve been threatening my dear friend and penpal poet Jory Mickelson with leaving Instagram. It has gained the mystique of one of those big things you fantasize about but are unlikely to do, ...

I'm planning on finally deactivating my Insta account soon and wrote about it.

Valid points. And as a library worker I think it is so important that people understand that just by using their library and services they are supporting the library and where funding goes. Also, until recently, it was just common practice to pay for a newspaper subscription. A paper one! Shocking.

One of the pleasures of protesting in your rural hometown is marching alongside your own childhood public school teachers and librarians.

Oh, I do like Stonehenge but I've also had issues with tearing/pulling up mostly when I've masked the edges.

Making watercolor look easy! Would you mind sharing what paper you're using?

Beautiful ❤️

And it's not even National
Poetry Month, yet!

"May we welcome people waking up from their nightmares to come share our dreams."

Sounds delicious. Like potato salad soup, in the best way.

Yes! Please tell all!

It's so true. As a library worker I can attest to the fact that one of the service libraries provide is just somewhere for be people to be out in public. I worry about my regulars if I don't see them for a while. For many people who live alone, we might be the only people they talk to in a day.

I was recently talking to a friend who now gets mail delivered to his house instead of a PO Box. He lives about 3 blocks from the post office but he said that he doesn't bump into a lot of people now. It made me wonder about unforeseen breakdowns of communities in exchange for small conveniences.

Gorgeous.

Beautiful work.

Opinion | Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between supper and bedtime.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...

It has a paywall, unfortunately. But should be accessible on the Vancouver Public Library site, as you likely know. Apologies, can't resist a plug for libraries!

I love a short novel. Margaret Renkl recently had a piece in the NYT on short books, which I enjoyed reading and getting recommendations from.

Truth.

I was really weird at a party once in about 2013, but in my defense I had just read Mary Roach's Stiff and it was full of so many good anecdotes about cadavers.

Happy Birthday!!!

Made some free, printable protest posters to help getting out to demonstrations one step easier. Formatted at 11"x17" to be easily printed on most copy machines. Link: www.autumngquigley.com/journal

HONK! Drawing geese and snowdrops for sanity. But also calling my representatives! It's scarier than a mad goose at first but gets easier the more you do it.

Oooh, love those relationships too. Lovely illustration.

Fallow deer lying down in a ferny glade, painting.

Fallow Deer, Charles Tunnicliffe.

My work celebrates the joy found in nature. A lot modern work speaks of loss, to mass extinction, etc. It is almost inherent to any work about the natural world, at this point. And that despair erodes the relationship we have with the world that is still here.

Western Gray Squirrel. Collage. 2024