"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke." - Arthur Plotnik
Big fans of fennel!
Thank you to the person who read 2 pages of Buzby Beach Homecoming. I hope you enjoyed them enough to read more.
Good morning, friends, and happy Wednesday. Be cool today! B)
Alas! The link was broken! Refusing to be denied this masterpiece, I navigated the tumultuous Sea of Internet™ to find it: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
@begonepots
Even in the rain are the daffodils and hyacinth beautiful 🪻
Nature can give some comfort in hard times.
#ECK #nature #rain #PhotographersofBlueSky #mobilephonephotography #flowers #spring #zeldenzomooigezien
Relevant:
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
The first American President to have been born after the Declaration of Independence was Martin Van Buren, born 1782. He was 6 when the US Constitution was ratified.
Van Buren was from the Dutch-speaking area of Kinderhook, NY & spoke English as a second language.
He died in 1862, age 79.
Today is International Women’s Day. Thank you to all of the women in our lives making the world a better place.
#InternationalWomensDay
This International Women’s Day and every day, let's celebrate all the women and girls who refuse to be compartmentalized, ignored, or made anything 'less than.'
We can begin with these Powerful Women Starter Packs: go.bsky.app/PxvSjV9 and go.bsky.app/F9RVWsx.
#InternationalWomen’sDay #IWD2026
"Lift up your eyes upon
This day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream."
- Maya Angelou.
🌅Good morning!
Wishing you a wonderful Monday and week!💜
#MagentaMonday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#ImageAndVerse
#ECK
Bwah hah hah!
My new laptop came with a Copilot key but no Page Down key.
Boo!
But I have successfully remapped the Copilot key to Page Down.
Yay!
#AmEditing #amquerying #amwritingfantasy #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Lovely warm cat on lap situation going on here.
“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”
Colloquial phrase updated for modern usage
"You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it." - Octavia E. Butler
TBF, that Phil Collins course doesn't sound so bad
Mimi @mimitlrife.bsky.social shares a lovely photograph and great words from Walt Whitman today for HumansOfBlueSky:
It's World Book Day.
Thank you to everyone who ever bought or read a book of mine, even if you hated it.
If you've never read a book of mine, but you've read A book, thank you too. A rising tide raises all ships. You're still enabling me 😁
The most important thing is: read more books!
COFFEE AND A BOOK, ANYONE?
First Outdoor Coffee
Plus a Book #WorldBookDay
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#japanese #literature #translation
#reading #booksky #coffee #BlueBrew
More coffee over at Susan Cushing
@sdcushing.bsky.social ☕
Image © Merisi Vienna
The Busy Brain™ gets us all in the end
finished my fourth book of the year then went to a drawing class, I’m analog entertainment-maxing
The local council's faith in people's civic mindedness is delightful
BEHOLD
(You’re welcome).
[at a spider wedding]
congratulations to the newlywebs
Repost if you agree
The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +
