This is Reggie. He was just told about daylight savings time. More like daylight starving time. 13/10 (TT: melandreggie)

A yearly chuckle

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.

A friend of mine helps organize a walking tour of neighborhood gardens

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

A *LOT* of folks have elections on Tuesday. Here's how to prepare and be a pro-library, pro-public education voter this year (& every year): bookriot.com/library-elec...

Sooooo...you could just make it Thursday, right God?

If you can’t find hope...be hope. Someone’s watching you for permission to keep going.

Good morning everyone, have a wonderful day 💙

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition) Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

It's October 2025, six months from the beginning of the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). What's going on in the agency right now?

A lot of disappearing money and an imminent court decision, among other things.

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Well it's Sunday. And you know what happens on Sunday? Show-and-tell happens on Sunday! So show us something you made or found, somewhere you've been, something you're proud of, family, pets... anything neat, really! Go on! Show us!

"I was going to clean house, but then I realized this book isn't going to read itself..."

So, so true. 📚✌️❤️💯 #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky

The struggle is real!

Excellent!

Sundays are for peanut butter pretzels, books, cats, and naps!

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

Loneliness, Carl Jung said, "has little to do with having no people around you but being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Loneliness is not about empty rooms or loss but about carrying words you don't say, or feel safe to share." Mindful healing: speak what matters.

Productive procrastination

If you care about the freedom to read, then the number one place you should be focused is on your local politics. When fascism goes federal, we go local. Banned Books Week this year is October 5-11. Here are some events/actions you can start planning now to make the week truly impactful

I am done with being stuck inside. I am done with not saving the world. I am done with watching the world burn. Life, help me to live. All I want is to run in the wild the way I did when I was not afraid. Lucy, wild lynx, say it: I am not afraid.

Mammoths and Ants Look at the fragile mushrooms. Look at the Black Widow. Pause with me a moment, and hear the cicadas humming. Here is where I'm home, among the Mammoth Redwoods. When I was lost, the ants absorbed me, calling me to the smallness of Earth. There I heard the Song of Silence. Come with me through the minuscule. Listen. The cicadas are humming.

Poem to Myself No one knows the Wolf that thrives in me. No one knows my heart is a burning fire I carry through the street toward the moon. No one knows the Wolf I softly calm. But I do. I do. I will wake today and run my life. I will walk today and declare my freedom. I will walk until I find the perfect thing. Wolf thrives, thrives, thrives.

My name is Lucas Andreas. Today I feel like a bright light shining in the sky. Sometimes I am a moon. Sometimes I am a sun. But always I am a star. I ask the world, Do we beee more people to shine? And the answer is yes, we need more bright lights in the sky.

Today, as once again our society does so little to protect the most vulnerable, I'm thinking of poetry written by children:

It's funny that midlife crises were once a thing at all. Like "oh he's disillusioned with the world and unsure what he wants out of life and buying things he doesn't need just to feel an ounce of joy because the things he was promised as a child don’t really exist anymore” like that is just Thursday

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Can’t help with how to refer to others, but my hubby and I refer to ourselves as just past young 😀

And the lowest paid American workers typically don’t get any federal holidays…

Before the darkness falls
and consumes us all
with the coronation of a raging, criminal
madman.

Remember,
the kindness,
the decency,
the days of joy and hope,
and the smiles and eyes bright
without dread and fear.
#poetry #poets

If you know this, then you know me. 😂❤️

there are few worse/lazy headline constructions than “tensions flare as ____” because it answers zero questions.

who’s tense? who’s making them flare? what’s the difference between each side’s ways of expressing their tension? who has more power in the situation?

The amount of healing that happens when I have to deal with somebody in customer service who’s pleasant and helpful and effective and is clearly treated with enough respect to want to be good at their job is the closest thing I know to actual magic

I am definitely not enjoying being an adult right now.

And I live in Colorado