Monica Wilcox

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

Editorial: A society that stops reading stops thinking Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past 20 years — roughly 3% per year, according to researchers at the University of Florida and University College London.

From the Editorial Board:

Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.

I’ve been there a few times. Beautiful in all seasons.

Pando - The Largest Living Organism in the World share.google/sWq5Kv29BgSJ...

The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele

New York 1956
Ernst Haas

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

Andrew Wyeth
Flood Plain. 1986

Colorful tulip bulb labels.

Colorful labels for iris rhizomes and tulip bulbs.

I planted tulips, lilies, and a bearded iris for next year. It's an act of almost naive and insane optimism, planting now to enjoy in 6 or 7 or 9 months. The iris instruction was wrong. It stated plant 4-6" deep. Nope. Plant at soil surface level. #Gardening 🌱

Look nobody ever had autism before we were aware of and capable of diagnosing autism, you merely had a second son who was “touched” and he joined the monastery where he was known for communing with the birds.

Make sure to include some banned books in that fantastic little library .

Young woman holding a lantern is walking into an open book.

That time traveling portal is closer than you think.

#art- Marija Kes
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity #library

Country for Old Men

Here's a selection of Anglo Saxon buildings for your delectation and delight: The remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire.
Worth cracking the photo open to see. #thread #throwbackthursday

95) • U.S. $3.95 ISAAC ASIMOV'S MAGICAL WORLDS OF FANTASY WITCHES EDITED BY ISAAC ASIMOV, MARTIN H. GREENBERG, & CHARLES G. WAUGH Image - witch is on a psychedelic hillside

A book cover for the first of October. Gonna be sharing the spookier covers all month.

Thought I’d bring you along on my afternoon hike. I’m calling this one Noon in the Aspen Grove. Including my heavy breathing. At 8,300 ft, many of you would be huffing it too. 😉

#nature #hiking #RockyMountians
#Colorado

An old leather chest, turned onto its side, with added shelves, creating a small library.

The #LittleFreeLibrary designed by the Bored to Death #book club in Rotterdam.

#library #booksky #WritingCommunity

Thought I’d bring you along on my afternoon hike. I’m calling this one Noon in the Aspen Grove. Including my heavy breathing. At 8,300 ft, many of you would be huffing it too. 😉

#nature #hiking #RockyMountians
#Colorado

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Tiny ghosts reading is a vibe.

#art-Hill Froeistung
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity

Colors are looking good in Granby, #colorado. Maybe a week out from peak. #travel #fallcolor #nature

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...

How can we re-forge communities of place, passion & purpose?

The River Dôn Project in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river.

accidentalgods.life/be-like-wate

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @jonnydouglas.bsky.social of @weareopus.bsky.social

So cute. There are so many out there I imagine it’s hard to pick.

Have you picked out one yet? Would love to see it when it’s done.

After scanning 11, 187 books during stocktake yesterday. We’re back open as usual! 📚⚡️

the world needs more people who wave at crows, thank the rivers, and talk to cats like equals.

Tiny ghosts reading is a vibe.

#art-Hill Froeistung
#books #booksky #WritingCommunity

Remote policies helped women work. In-office mandates and child care costs are driving them back out. Low flexibility and high child care costs are pushing mothers with young kids to the sidelines after they joined the workforce in record numbers during the pandemic. Emma Nelson The Minnesota Star Tribune September 13th at 6:01 AM CDT

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

A bookstore with hanging hot air balloons and globes

A #bookstore in Malaga that attempts to be as magical as the #books it sells.

#booksky #WritingCommunity

Bookstore filled with hanging hot air balloons and globes.

A #bookstore in Malaga that attempts to be as magical as the #books it sells.

#bookX #WritingCommunity