T. Thorn Coyle they/them

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Talking cat for the win.
For the rest: feel better soon!

For all intensive purposes, it is a doggy dog world!

A notebook and pen. Morrison quote: “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Sometimes, in order to learn, we must cast ourselves into the strange and challenging…”

My latest newsletter is a brief musing on Las Vegas, the Author Nation conference, and how we learn: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/on-des...

#writingcommunity

OutKast will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 during tomorrow evening's ceremony!

Please join us in congratulating André 3000 & Big Boi on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/OutKast

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist "I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

A striped cat with a sweet face looks up at the camera

Hello, beautiful.

#caturday

Thank you!!!!

Thank you!

Fancy edition of evolutionary witchcraft book with an acrylic Kickstarter sign.

Evolutionary Witchcraft got a fancy Best of Kickstarter sign at the Reader Nation book fair!

(Late pledges are still open)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho...

#booksky #kickstarter

Thorn, white, glasses, curly short hair, smiling.

Getting ready to meet readers and sell books at Reader Nation in Las Vegas!

#booksky

Blue sky, palm trees, a slice of a Ferris wheel and hotel.

“It’s Friday, I’m in love…”
with everyone showing up for community.

Big gratitude for big hearts.

#photography

Lovely!

A white and black pigeon walks on concrete near a roll up door.

Just a pigeon in Las Vegas, trying to get by.

#photography

A full moon with light rays.

Full Moon Blessings!

Looking down on seated legs in trousers printed with winding snakes.

Just sitting around at an author conference in Vegas last night, my trousers rolled snake eyes…
…but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel lucky.

Wishing us all a bit of good fortune, and cheers to everyone feeling a glimmer of hope today.

The You Are the Spell oracle card of the week: the 5 of Dandelions.

A small dog in a spider web sweater stands on a concrete floor, looking alert.

Hello, friend.
Hope you have a good day.

#photography #dogs

Gibbous moon with a golden halo, framed by dark trees.

Goodnight, moon.

#photography

Looking down on a mostly empty bowl, with a few candies and Halloween mini notebooks in it.

“We all make offerings to one another. We honor the dead and fight for the living.”

My latest newsletter has thoughts on the season, and the importance of feeding community.

Thanks for reading: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/feedin...

#photography #community

That is awful.

If that hadn’t caused so many teens to be sent to institutions, I would laugh at the ridiculousness of it. 😕

Parents in 1910:

“Why does my child keep saying ‘23 Skidoo’??? What does it mean? Ought we be concerned?”

A large scaredy cat statue with arched back and yowling open mouth in front of a house.

Happy Caturday, Witches!

#photography

YouTube video by T. Thorn Coyle - Topic Ancestor Chant

All you who have gone before,
Please listen now,
We are listening, too.
All you who have gone before,
Join us in peace…

A chant I wrote many years ago, and recorded with Sharon Knight:

youtu.be/5BPz82M4i1U

#samhain

Thank you!

Sylvester and a friend in the Castro, Halloween 1976 🎃🧹🧙🏻‍♀️💀🎃👻🦴

Sylvester in the Castro, Halloween 1976 🎃🧹🧙🏻‍♀️💀🎃👻🦴

A pile of dried, fallen leaves on wet brick, with dried fir needles

Leaves fall.
Empires crumble.
All things die…
“God is change.”

Samhain Greetings, my friends.

#photography

Five ghostly ebook covers. StoryBundle.com

Last chance to get this sliding scale Ghost & Hauntings ebook bundle!

Head to storybundle.com/ghosts to get some great reads.

#booksky #ghosts