D M Gordon
@dmgordon.com
Reader, novelist, poet, editor, citizen. www.dmgordon.com Dogged by dogs. The ancient goldfish aswim in my kitchen says O, O, O when it sees me, god of clean water, sprinkling dried insects from heaven. Holding tight to #wonder & #kindness.
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Hello, tree!
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hello, tree!
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Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Reposted by D M Gordon
Leonard McCombe
(British/American, 1923–2015)
what a fabulous picture.
(British/American, 1923–2015)
what a fabulous picture.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Leonard McCombe
(British/American, 1923–2015)
what a fabulous picture.
(British/American, 1923–2015)
what a fabulous picture.
A #poem today.
Addressed to a friend who, diagnosed with #cancer and still healthy enough, stopped living. Thinking how Catholic School taught us to live with death every day. One of those life lessons one needs to learn over and over.
From Nightly at the Institute of the Possible. #poetry
Addressed to a friend who, diagnosed with #cancer and still healthy enough, stopped living. Thinking how Catholic School taught us to live with death every day. One of those life lessons one needs to learn over and over.
From Nightly at the Institute of the Possible. #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is interesting.
#GVerse Repeal Nixon's HMO Act of 1973 which made healthcare "For-Profit."
Obama didn't destroy healthcare.
Democrats didn't destroy healthcare.
Republicans Did & they have the power to get rid of Managed Healthcare - but they won't because they are getting paid off not to.
Obama didn't destroy healthcare.
Democrats didn't destroy healthcare.
Republicans Did & they have the power to get rid of Managed Healthcare - but they won't because they are getting paid off not to.
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is interesting.
An inducement to soften, let out breath you might not know you are holding. Three minutes is a long time to pause on Bluesky... but... enjoy... The art of Eric Kaye and music of John Manchester.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur4...
SLOW TRANSFORMATION - Innocent Recorders, Harp and Orchestra with Lovely Plein Air Watercolors.
YouTube video by John Manchester Composer
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
An inducement to soften, let out breath you might not know you are holding. Three minutes is a long time to pause on Bluesky... but... enjoy... The art of Eric Kaye and music of John Manchester.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ur4...
These babies, and the people who raise them, the patience, the expertise, the years, the love it takes, to return them to the wild.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOy...
The Rescue of Tytan, A Gentle and Brave Orphaned Black Rhino | Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
YouTube video by Sheldrick Trust
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These babies, and the people who raise them, the patience, the expertise, the years, the love it takes, to return them to the wild.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOy...
Sometimes I should remember to look straight up. What was over my head.
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sometimes I should remember to look straight up. What was over my head.
Reposted by D M Gordon
It's here! Pub Date Friday, and this week's new arrival is this beautiful memoir about a Chinese-American woman born in the US but raised in China, and coming back to the United States to live her immigrant story. Survival and triumph through strength.
@karinkjensen
@karinkjensen
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's here! Pub Date Friday, and this week's new arrival is this beautiful memoir about a Chinese-American woman born in the US but raised in China, and coming back to the United States to live her immigrant story. Survival and triumph through strength.
@karinkjensen
@karinkjensen
A practice batch of buttermilk biscuits—for a friend's cowgirl breakfast with the launch of her West Texas novel.
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A practice batch of buttermilk biscuits—for a friend's cowgirl breakfast with the launch of her West Texas novel.
This, from Suzanna in Ireland this morning, almost as good as the "maa-maa-maas" of her ewes, and her horses galloping, and her pack of helper dogs of all sizes, including a cat or two, not to forget her dung beetles.
I love this book & coffee shop in Kilkenny. This is an excellent deal as their coffee is delicious
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This, from Suzanna in Ireland this morning, almost as good as the "maa-maa-maas" of her ewes, and her horses galloping, and her pack of helper dogs of all sizes, including a cat or two, not to forget her dung beetles.
This. This is America. Take her back. Move her forward.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...
November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This. This is America. Take her back. Move her forward.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...
Love this. Can feel the zingy energy limb to limb.
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Love this. Can feel the zingy energy limb to limb.
I love when Bluesky transports me, no better than this moment: a thatched roof, warthogs grazing green, green grass, scooching on their knees, small lawn sculptures, a kitten watching, a sign, "Dream, Explore, Discover." Love it. Thank you, Kate Loves A Walk!
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Earlier in the day we had warthogs outside the bar.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love when Bluesky transports me, no better than this moment: a thatched roof, warthogs grazing green, green grass, scooching on their knees, small lawn sculptures, a kitten watching, a sign, "Dream, Explore, Discover." Love it. Thank you, Kate Loves A Walk!
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Something about Brio's bear....
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Something about Brio's bear....
Went looking for happy this morning on Bluesky, needing it, but this hour, found a tsunami of hate, anger and frustration as deep as I scroll, emotions running high...and how not?
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Went looking for happy this morning on Bluesky, needing it, but this hour, found a tsunami of hate, anger and frustration as deep as I scroll, emotions running high...and how not?
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
Sending something to pause upon. A burst of late color.
Reposted by D M Gordon
Day 3 of 30 Poems in November, a fund raising effort for The Center for New Americans, providing support & legal help for immigrants & refuges. Many efforts, antidotes—this is one. Contributing is a feel-good small deed...
cnam.org/civi/pcp/inf...
Though 30 poems? Not small, it turns out. 3 down.
cnam.org/civi/pcp/inf...
Though 30 poems? Not small, it turns out. 3 down.
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Day 3 of 30 Poems in November, a fund raising effort for The Center for New Americans, providing support & legal help for immigrants & refuges. Many efforts, antidotes—this is one. Contributing is a feel-good small deed...
cnam.org/civi/pcp/inf...
Though 30 poems? Not small, it turns out. 3 down.
cnam.org/civi/pcp/inf...
Though 30 poems? Not small, it turns out. 3 down.
Bonnard! So happy to think of him this morning, to have this painting to contemplate today. Love this.
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bonnard! So happy to think of him this morning, to have this painting to contemplate today. Love this.
I miss him. Echoing Christopher Webb, I'm glad he's back and saying what needs to be said by leadership.
I’m just going to say it…
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I miss him. Echoing Christopher Webb, I'm glad he's back and saying what needs to be said by leadership.
I'll try to carry this with me today, longer than the moments it takes to post, come back to it, again & again with my crushed American heart. Peace, ru posts,
p
e
a
c
e
☮️
peace
peace
peace
say it
breathe it
pray
meditate
scream
I otherwise feel powerless.
p
e
a
c
e
☮️
peace
peace
peace
say it
breathe it
pray
meditate
scream
I otherwise feel powerless.
"In Zen, there is a koan, a question for contemplation:
"Does the dog have buddha-nature?" Not only does the dog have buddha-nature,
so does the stone-and the planet."
#ThichNhatHanh
#zen #buddhism
📷Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, China.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRForRock
"Does the dog have buddha-nature?" Not only does the dog have buddha-nature,
so does the stone-and the planet."
#ThichNhatHanh
#zen #buddhism
📷Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, China.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRForRock
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I'll try to carry this with me today, longer than the moments it takes to post, come back to it, again & again with my crushed American heart. Peace, ru posts,
p
e
a
c
e
☮️
peace
peace
peace
say it
breathe it
pray
meditate
scream
I otherwise feel powerless.
p
e
a
c
e
☮️
peace
peace
peace
say it
breathe it
pray
meditate
scream
I otherwise feel powerless.
"“They were careless people,” F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the Gatsby set, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"“They were careless people,” F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the Gatsby set, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Reposting because...beautiful...and also this feels like home to me, in some inexplicable way, and even though the path is leading away.
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposting because...beautiful...and also this feels like home to me, in some inexplicable way, and even though the path is leading away.