GraceAnne LadyHawke

but so warming and good for you...

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...

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...)

or maybe not. Was it a fine wine?

I love this many times.

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

“We’re family and we’re bonded for life. So, you can’t get rid of me that easily.”—😭🤍

(🎥: youtu.be/uYusqXAvogI?...)

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

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.

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?

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.

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*)

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....

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

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

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

oh. dear.

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

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.

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

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-...

in the pit

This entire weekend

well, he is.

I have loved this cartoon for decades...

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.

I do need to watch the DVD again….

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

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.

As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I 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.”