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BONNIE COTTON

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Quilter, Writer, Reader, Grandmother, Birdwatcher, Resilient survivor of loss and grief. Fighting despair every day unless I avoid the news.

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Image reads: A Thanksgiving note from Bookshop.org CEO and founder Andy Hunter

Image reads: A Thanksgiving note from Bookshop.org CEO and founder Andy Hunter

Image reads: “Did you know that Black Friday got its name because it helps small businesses go from “in the red” (losing money) to “in the black” (solvent)? It’s no exaggeration that a strong holiday season is necessary for most local bookstores’ survival. And their survival is critical to us as readers, writers, and book lovers. Without booksellers’ passion and advocacy, our literary culture would fade fast.

Image reads: “Did you know that Black Friday got its name because it helps small businesses go from “in the red” (losing money) to “in the black” (solvent)? It’s no exaggeration that a strong holiday season is necessary for most local bookstores’ survival. And their survival is critical to us as readers, writers, and book lovers. Without booksellers’ passion and advocacy, our literary culture would fade fast.

Image reads: This holiday is about being thankful and connecting with the humans you care about: your family, whether they’re biological or chosen. We are thankful for our extended book family—the authors, booksellers, and readers—and we’re fighting for them. Please fight for them, too, by choosing to support local independent bookstores this holiday season. We are all part of the same chosen family—built of readers who are trying to preserve a human-centered future with a beloved bookstore in every town.

Image reads: This holiday is about being thankful and connecting with the humans you care about: your family, whether they’re biological or chosen. We are thankful for our extended book family—the authors, booksellers, and readers—and we’re fighting for them. Please fight for them, too, by choosing to support local independent bookstores this holiday season. We are all part of the same chosen family—built of readers who are trying to preserve a human-centered future with a beloved bookstore in every town.

Image reads: Your purchase on Bookshop.org supports more than 2,500 independent bookstores (90% of the bookstores in the U.S.). They are thankful for you, too.

Image reads: Your purchase on Bookshop.org supports more than 2,500 independent bookstores (90% of the bookstores in the U.S.). They are thankful for you, too.

A note from our CEO Andy Hunter expressing our gratitude for our extended book family and stressing the importance of supporting independent bookstores this holiday season and beyond 💜

26.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 191    🔁 69    💬 0    📌 3
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November 25, 2025 Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.

November 25, 2025
Honor the women who have gone before us, showing us the way. The power of the purse is still ours! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

27.11.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seeing Things | Liza Donnelly | Substack New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, politics, culture, more... Click to r...

Seeing Things
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Join me with thoughtful drawings

09.09.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes DC!

06.09.2025 21:31 — 👍 11250    🔁 3425    💬 234    📌 176

From Rebecca Solnit meditations-in-an-emergency@ghost.io.
We need to be attentive about the use of language because "authoritarianism seeks to control fact, truth, history, reality itself through misleading, false, inflammatory, and distorted language, as well as suppressed information...

14.08.2025 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ActionKit: Tools to build a movement ActionKit: Supercharge your online organizing, advocacy and fundraising with the most powerful tools in the business.

Join Doctors, Nurses and Medical Staff in Eastern Washington to Demand Congressman Baumgartner save our rural clinics and protect patients. Sign the petition from FuseWashington. actionkit.com

14.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Login • Instagram Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Fortunately not an issue with my people. Lots of love and thank yous to go around.

04.08.2025 01:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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how to slow down time (the neuroscience of time perception) how the brain creates our perception of time, and how to expand it

how to slow down time (the neuroscience of time perception)
open.substack.com/pub/contempl...

22.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Writer Within: Lessons and Reflections '/' What motivates me to write? I reflect on this each day, especially when I haven't carved out the time to do so. The blank page calls to me. I've embraced the advice of setting specific goals, whether that’s a certain number of words or dedicating a set time to sit in front of the screen or with an open notebook.

Why do I write? To discover what I forgot, to claim my own truth, to allow others into my world, to heal and be healed. All of this and more.

27.06.2025 04:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What happened to Senator Padilla is not homeland security. This is homeland fascism. This is homeland authoritarianism.

12.06.2025 20:17 — 👍 9110    🔁 3059    💬 260    📌 104
Tell the Senate: no private-jet giveaways! Trump's tax bill subsidizes private-jet purchases and working people are picking up the tab.

Trump's tax bill subsidizes private-jet purchases and working people are picking up the tab. Tell the Senate: no private-jet giveaways! Take action with @inequality.org: action.ips-dc.org/a/inequality...

13.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
#epic:  JIM ACOSTA SHOW DC TOWN HALL WITH @RepJasmine ROSIE O'DONNELL, OLIVIA TROYE & FANONE!
YouTube video by Jim Acosta #epic: JIM ACOSTA SHOW DC TOWN HALL WITH @RepJasmine ROSIE O'DONNELL, OLIVIA TROYE & FANONE!

Our DC town hall is up! Watch @repjasmine.bsky.social @rosie.com and more: youtu.be/RhdXMl3vW8g?si…

04.06.2025 01:50 — 👍 389    🔁 90    💬 9    📌 4
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Blue on blue reflections. On the Rhine. #Bluesky art show

17.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
No matter now much I want to scream, “I told you so” in order to vindicate our warnings, I know we must do whatever we can to get those “others” to join us. Not really talking about the cult members, but the independents & those who are starting to see the light.

16.05.2025 17:42 — 👍 1415    🔁 387    💬 73    📌 19
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It’s plain for all to see.

15.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 19344    🔁 6014    💬 514    📌 202

The most grotesque image imaginable is the President flying around on a gilded plane while his Republican allies take away our families Medicare.

11.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 2154    🔁 395    💬 31    📌 17
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A beach sunset never disappoints

09.05.2025 06:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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He thinks revenge is leadership and trolling is governance.

Stop the #MadKing

05.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 8872    🔁 2325    💬 359    📌 137

There is a Tattoo shop in Olympia with the same name

04.05.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

16.04.2025 02:20 — 👍 60960    🔁 13383    💬 1093    📌 635
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The true Truth Social.
#blacksky

28.04.2025 01:05 — 👍 4238    🔁 937    💬 90    📌 43
Writing My Memoir: Lessons from Life and Vietnam Earlier this week, I gave a long-anticipated presentation on writing my Memoir. The audience was a medium-sized group of Seniors--all over fifty-five, and mostly in their seventies plus--which meets monthly for lunch. I approached the group facilitator last September, shortly after "Stories Never Told" was published. I was ready to promote it, certain that, being of similar age, many others had been impacted by the war in Vietnam.

Writing My Memoir: Lessons from Life and Vietnam

Earlier this week, I gave a long-anticipated presentation on writing my Memoir. The audience was a medium-sized group of Seniors--all over fifty-five, and mostly in their seventies plus--which meets monthly for lunch. I approached the group…

25.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
From Despair to Courage: Navigating Sleeplessness Sometimes I am still in bed at 11 a.m. Dave and I watch TV and stay up until 11:30 nearly every night, and sometimes I have bouts of insomnia. By the time I fall asleep at 2 or 3 in the morning, I find it hard to wake up. Insomnia is not new to me. A problem to work out, a project to plan, sometimes the plot of a recent well-written novel, or the disturbing events on a Crime show will do it.

From Despair to Courage: Navigating Sleeplessness

Sometimes I am still in bed at 11 a.m. Dave and I watch TV and stay up until 11:30 nearly every night, and sometimes I have bouts of insomnia. By the time I fall asleep at 2 or 3 in the morning, I find it hard to wake up. Insomnia is not new to me.…

14.04.2025 04:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#peaceful

13.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes

12.04.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I Deleted My Facebook Account Took a while, but I have finally broken free and deleted my Facebook account. I am already discovering free time, which by habit I return to the keyboard to fill. I may miss out on a few pictures of other people's grand adventures, and feel envious, but I am also no longer able to share pictures and draw attention to my own good fortune and happiness.

Why I Deleted My Facebook Account

Took a while, but I have finally broken free and deleted my Facebook account. I am already discovering free time, which by habit I return to the keyboard to fill. I may miss out on a few pictures of other people's grand adventures, and feel envious, but I am also…

09.04.2025 03:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sadly, I hope other countries will stand strong and create more trade with each other rather than kneel before the felon. Yes. It will hurt. A lot. but making a deal with a wannabe mob boss will only be worse for everyone in the end. Spectacular failure is the only way to rid us of this craven clown

04.04.2025 10:05 — 👍 697    🔁 75    💬 19    📌 4

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