@occasionallyzen.bsky.social
Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
Yes!!! We visited in October - Such a wonderful bookstore and neighborhood ❤️📚
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Seu Jorge singing his Portuguese versions of the David Bowie songs he sang in The Life Aquatic, done here as a tribute to Bowie ten years after his death. This is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while.
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Moonrise
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Holy wow the moon tonight
02.02.2026 00:01 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Still an amazing photo! Beautiful, cracks and all.
01.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes!!!!
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The cover notes the book was 2020 winner Novel of the Year from the Irish Book Awards. The background cover color is black with reddish- cream flower images, and praising quotes.
Wake up, wake up, the world is hard and it rushes on regardless of your heart, and people never take the shape you want them to, people are stubborn about that, about being themselves, even when they're trying to be someone else. #SundaySentence, Donal Ryan, Strange Flowers. Gorgeous novel.
01.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0What lovely roses, sending care
01.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes...or thinking about a treat 🦴😂
01.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So sweet!
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Out and about, the sunshine is a mercy #chicago
01.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Looking forward to reading....someday 😂
01.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The day was already well worn, and there was something hypnotic in the stillness, the hush, the way that beyond the further hedge, the world ended in a soft white nothing.
Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter #sundaysentence
Yes, truly!
01.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aw! *Waving* Happy snow day.
31.01.2026 23:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The NYT Book Review book club are my next favorite online book friends (after Sunday Sentencers of course) they also loved The Hounding and its opening sentence
open.spotify.com/episode/3qON...
Apparently a sleeper hit, highly recommended by a friend. Have you read it?
31.01.2026 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Going to take it as a sign that it will be a good read? and that Reading Is Not Dead Despite All Reports To The Contrary 😊📚📚📚
31.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok have never been number 1000+ on a library waitlist before
31.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Happy Friday
31.01.2026 00:35 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Raising a glass of fruit wine to the marvelous Moira Rose ❤️🍷. Thank you, Catherine O'Hara
30.01.2026 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just diving in, wonderful so far. And feeling unexpectedly emotional over snail extinctions 🐌
30.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gorgeous!
29.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![Ratboys - "Anywhere" [Official Music Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ffhvb32plksgimwnlty5xwzm/bafkreig2ftuwgmdasfigyap42ekmfm6zwkkhqkjnxwbhs7tj2bkrwhryom@jpeg)
New favorite song,
You're welcome 😊🙏❤️
youtu.be/KYUMoL9FrIA?...
Gregory Bovino and other U.S. Border Patrol agents are seen wearing tactical gear at a gas station in Minneapolis this month. A headline reads: Gregory Bovino, Who Led Crackdown, Is Expected to Leave Minnesota. Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to move Gregory Bovino, the official in charge of President Trump’s Border Patrol operations and the face of on-the-ground immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, out of the city, officials said. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4jWyPDK
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Chicago stands with Minneapolis
25.01.2026 20:18 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Found it very well done. The characters, the images, the dynamics, a whole little world in a capsule
25.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Best sign on my morning walk. (No snow, sleet, or ice, thank goodness, but quite cold for Seattle- 24
degrees)
Really enjoyed it! ❤️
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