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GraceAnne LadyHawke

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Feminist. Flower child. ItalianAmerican. Over 75. Books. Tea. Stories. Family. Music. Baseball. Outlander je suis prest GirasoleAzzurra.com

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but so warming and good for you...

23.02.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Horse May Talk this was written and delivered in 2007. It still has value. So, Hodja Nasruddin told a story: A man had offended the king, and was sentenced to death. He fell to his knees before the king and implo…

The Horse May Talk girasoleazzurra.com/2024/10/30/t...

19.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To my abject shock, I was the winner this year of the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, a.k.a. the Skylark, given every year at Boskone by NESFA.

Given who the past winners are, I'm stunned and humbled to be in such august company.

(Past winners: nesfa.org/awards/the-s...)

14.02.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

or maybe not. Was it a fine wine?

14.02.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this many times.

12.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mama graziana waves her holy wand, made of pasta, over you and prays, mangia! mangia!

09.02.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWe’re family and we’re bonded for life. So, you can’t get rid of me that easily.β€β€”πŸ˜­πŸ€

(πŸŽ₯: youtu.be/uYusqXAvogI?...)

06.02.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32207    πŸ” 13840    πŸ’¬ 590    πŸ“Œ 1603

Yesterday, we had an internet outage for awhile. I tried to explain how I got my email on my phone by using "cellular dada" and now that phrase is haunting me.

17.01.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know this song. I am sorry. Also, I had a tiny piece of cake with icing for breakfast, and I am sorry for that too. Sending gentle pats and maybe a glass of warm milk?

12.01.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The current film, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, is quite a lovely thing. As a study of creating and depression and memory, it fascinates whether you know the singer and his work or not.

07.01.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All of this. I heartily recommend the 5calls.org app - none of you HATES making phone calls more than I do, but 5calls makes it possible (not "easy", nothing can do that, but *possible*)

04.01.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become 1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

03.01.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2183    πŸ” 676    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 46
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

31.12.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5951    πŸ” 3473    πŸ’¬ 1080    πŸ“Œ 771

May we be loved; may we be safe. May we do no harm; may we take no shit. Be excellent to each other.

31.12.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

take care of yourself, please. you are precious to many.

31.12.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh. dear.

28.12.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. -Mary Oliver

25.12.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In case you didn't know...

Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.

24.12.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1353    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 18

and the artists are Charles Vess for the first image, and Carson Ellis for the illustrations from the picture book.

21.12.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD: The Thin Blue Ley-Line by Keith R. A. DeCandido The Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD: The Thin Blue Ley-Line by Keith R. A. DeCandido is a paranormal procedural with magic & monsters in NYC.

A lovely review of SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD Book 1 by @dvaleris.bsky.social for @crimehq.bsky.social. Check it out!

www.criminalelement.com/book-review-...

20.12.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
in the pit

in the pit

This entire weekend

15.12.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 34435    πŸ” 7278    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 255

well, he is.

10.12.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have loved this cartoon for decades...

05.12.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

02.12.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10954    πŸ” 3213    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 256

I do need to watch the DVD again….

30.11.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

29.11.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We saw The Real Thing with Jeremy Irons (swoon) and Glenn Close (also swoon) from the third row or so and it completely rearranged all my molecules.

29.11.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: β€œI don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”

29.11.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10

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