Grand Little Things

Two Poems By Russel Winick Coaching NarrativeCoaches who emphasizeCharacter that they buildMostly lead, I surmise,Teams that are getting killed The Country Craft StoreWe ventured to a rural country craft store,Admiring all t…

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Two Poems By Lee Evans WINTER SOLSTICETo stay at home and watch the sun go down,And let the world turn on its starlit wayInto the night, after the shortest day—To be nobody, consciousness unboundTo name and form. To be t…

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Table In The Wilderness Table in the wildernessthat absence we have begun to know so wellseated in our souls as worlds rushand time’s chatter runs in unspun threads, adrift, we pass the bread, make lightsit in silent comp…

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The times are heavy. A lot of us have to get back to it. It's just going to take time. Don't be hard on yourself.

I've written like 2 drafts this past month. And started reading again. Unpopular take, but we're not AI lol. Take a break!

Two Poems By Christine Leoni Act 2The rhythm of the residence is preserved at the hour as the clock strikes.The furniture remains intact. The last of its fledglings flown.What was a home shines through the vacant hallways.Echo…

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Why is this my mood?

Before we start spiraling remember that we tried. Get rest. Drink "medicine". And if you're not the protesting type like yours truly, you still have to say something. Either here, to a coworker, to a family member, to a spouse, to a cashier. This war doesn't have a big lie. It's just here.

Yes.

Recovering from narcissistic abuse and pure fascism is um...a lot. But a goal of mine is to get the TAT for this journal to 3 months tops. I also have grad student level essays I want to write. What I'm saying is look at the world as it is and take care of yourselves. This is not normal.

What Moves Us By Amelia Michelle Nicol What Moves UsDesigns for towns, these places usually moveto the sounds of the river, the constant rushingExpansion of soil or retracting floods, provethe diligence of generations in pasts brushingG…

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YouTube video by FINAL FANTASY XIV FINAL FANTASY XIV: Forge Ahead – Close in the Distance Music Video (THE PRIMALS)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7r... Mood. I'm reading though.

ERAT HORA BY Mark J. Mitchell ERAT HORA She placed her jacks back in their small red box then squeezed her red rubber ball hard as prayer. A spot behind a technical handbook she built for storing childish things awaits her hand…

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Sing By Leisel Brex SingIf you can hear meon a winding thread of lightgrab a can and singfrom the moon tides to the shorephosphorescence you will bring Leisel Brex is a trauma survivor with PTSD who strives to maintai…

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No Street by Which You Might Return By Tim Muller No Street by Which You Might ReturnMost any day you’d take your walk -Sometimes the dogwoods were in bloom,Or sometimes in a winter gloom -You’d linger with some friend and talk.Our streets were sa…

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Just realized that Yuna is Aerith that got to live. Oh no....

YouTube video by ihatevoyager Final Fantasy X (before Yunalesca fight)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YSf... Mood I'm in. New work is coming so I'm juggling lol.

I have started reading lol. 3 a day. Got two days of PTO next week as well.

Slight reading draught on my end. New contrapoints vid and FF14 expansion has helped with not dwelling on USA and a war with China/Europe???? for a bit so I should perk up soon. Hang in there all y'all!

YouTube video by ContraPoints CONSPIRACY | contrapoints

Mother made a youtube video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqk... @contrapoints.bsky.social

Clarity By Eris Cardin ClarityThrough my glasses the world becomes as perfect as a pictureand blurs of color coalesce to form a clear-cut structureI see the shadows of the moon become as clear as sketchesand the stars be…

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Spring By Annastatia Brooks SpringNothing melts my heart like spring.The heavens crack open, reveal the great blue,And a warm light shines on every dear thing.Trodding off the path, mud on my shoe,I emerge from my den of wint…

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Schwa By Zack Davies SchwaThe single trick of British diction’sstripping sounds of forms and frictions.All non-consonantals areground down into the mighty Schwa.UUUUUUH.Grey incarnate as a vowel,projected from yo…

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Two Poems By Drew Pisarra And Then…I remember that night we met, Ken. Sophomore year.I remember we French-kissed on Lina’s twin bed.I remember your friend Tom snapped, “He isn’t queer.”I remember him making that perfectly c…

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Hyades By Frank Proctor HyadesWhere are you now? When night by night goes by, And all I have are memories and dreams—Of rainy scenes of you in late July,Unmoved by all that acts, but only seems,And never is what it may se…

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And yes I've started reading again lol.

Bookmarks and Headstones By John Kruschke Bookmarks and HeadstonesMy shelves lift volumes covered soft and hard,a thousand books I’ve given brief regard.Slower gazing reveals the multitudeall clasping slender markers that protrudelike flow…

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a gorilla is standing in the woods with trees in the background and looking at the camera . Alt: A person in a gorilla suit is standing in the woods with trees in the background. They give thumbs up, point to the camera, and then punch to the side.

#FF Today is Gorilla Suit Day! Give ❤️ and follow these folks in the lit community beginning with the letter “G”:
@garlicpresslit.bsky.social
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Awww thanks!

And yet the dried and the tart peaches pact
together when I packed them into that
pie. I’m of the notion, now, that peaches
taste good.

(Things I do when I should be reading subs lol)