Patricia J McLean

This is how we win. We do the right thing. It may be a long hard road and as individuals we may not witness the outcome we are fighting for, but it will exist.

Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025 A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.

I'm honored to have 3 poems (All the Naked Emperors, How to Dodge Bombs, Echoes) in Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age.

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Quite beautiful and thought provoking.
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Perhaps he just needs to hear that no one would blame him if he quit. Oh, and took his VP with him.

Reading "The Invisible Line" by Daniel J. Sharfstein. Non-fiction

I think their nest are some of the most beautiful things.

I understand that.

Just figuring out how to post to Bluesky.

Just figuring out how to post to Bluesky.

Saturday Night in Brightwood by Patricia J McLean. Karen tells me her friend Scott planted a thousand trees on the hillside.

A new piece on our Memory and Dream Substack by Patty McLean, @germainetruth.bsky.social.
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Ah, that's where it all went wrong. If only he hadn't gotten bad advice.

I'm slogging through a heavy revision of a novel I keep setting aside, though I really do want to finish it.