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Luci in the Sky
@luciznyc.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hello friends! First post here on Blue Sky. Not letting anybody steal my hope or joy. Nope, not happening. Strategy #1: Mary Oliver each morning with my coffee, rather than news.☺️
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die.” - John Steinbeck
March 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die.” - John Steinbeck
Another Morning with Mary to start your day on a high note of possibility.💙📚She is correct here. ProTip: “Seeing is believing” is NOT the way of the universe; it’s actually the opposite: “Believing is seeing.” You must believe in order to See. Once you realize this, it changes EVERYTHING.😉🕊️
#poetry
#poetry
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Another Morning with Mary to start your day on a high note of possibility.💙📚She is correct here. ProTip: “Seeing is believing” is NOT the way of the universe; it’s actually the opposite: “Believing is seeing.” You must believe in order to See. Once you realize this, it changes EVERYTHING.😉🕊️
#poetry
#poetry
Afternoon musings with Howard Zin. We the people have the infinite capacity to behave magnificently. It’s time to do so, every day in every little way. It all makes a difference.🕊️💙📚🕊️
January 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Afternoon musings with Howard Zin. We the people have the infinite capacity to behave magnificently. It’s time to do so, every day in every little way. It all makes a difference.🕊️💙📚🕊️
Rather than doom-scrolling the news (STOP it already!) Start your mornings with Mary.💙📚Advice for moving forward: Do not give another second of your precious time & attention to an energy vampire who thrives on our tears & attention. Cut off the supply. Do not let them steal your Joy. Be like Mary.💙
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Rather than doom-scrolling the news (STOP it already!) Start your mornings with Mary.💙📚Advice for moving forward: Do not give another second of your precious time & attention to an energy vampire who thrives on our tears & attention. Cut off the supply. Do not let them steal your Joy. Be like Mary.💙
pattismith.substack.com/p/hello-from...
THIS timely missive from Patti is so on target. We’re still alive & We have to do our work. It’s what we do in the face of grief. You claw back up & do your work. “We have to create our own Good World.” So Hello from the Good World. It’s ours to create.
#art
THIS timely missive from Patti is so on target. We’re still alive & We have to do our work. It’s what we do in the face of grief. You claw back up & do your work. “We have to create our own Good World.” So Hello from the Good World. It’s ours to create.
#art
Hello from the good world
Just checking in feeling in a happy mood
pattismith.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
pattismith.substack.com/p/hello-from...
THIS timely missive from Patti is so on target. We’re still alive & We have to do our work. It’s what we do in the face of grief. You claw back up & do your work. “We have to create our own Good World.” So Hello from the Good World. It’s ours to create.
#art
THIS timely missive from Patti is so on target. We’re still alive & We have to do our work. It’s what we do in the face of grief. You claw back up & do your work. “We have to create our own Good World.” So Hello from the Good World. It’s ours to create.
#art
Good morning friends.🙋♀️Here’s a little morning musing from poet Jane Hirshfield to start your day on a reasonably affirmative foot. Joy still
stays Joy & sequins stay sequins …this is where our attention belongs. Art will save the world. This is a truth we can collectively get behind,eh?
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#poetry
stays Joy & sequins stay sequins …this is where our attention belongs. Art will save the world. This is a truth we can collectively get behind,eh?
💙📚
#poetry
January 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Good morning friends.🙋♀️Here’s a little morning musing from poet Jane Hirshfield to start your day on a reasonably affirmative foot. Joy still
stays Joy & sequins stay sequins …this is where our attention belongs. Art will save the world. This is a truth we can collectively get behind,eh?
💙📚
#poetry
stays Joy & sequins stay sequins …this is where our attention belongs. Art will save the world. This is a truth we can collectively get behind,eh?
💙📚
#poetry
“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people." ~ Madeleine L'Engle
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#hope #courage #literature #GoodTrouble
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#hope #courage #literature #GoodTrouble
December 5, 2024 at 1:19 PM
“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people." ~ Madeleine L'Engle
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#hope #courage #literature #GoodTrouble
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#hope #courage #literature #GoodTrouble
Mornings w/ Mary💙📚
All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes..
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life-just imagine that
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another. ~Mary Oliver
#poetry
All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes..
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life-just imagine that
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another. ~Mary Oliver
#poetry
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Mornings w/ Mary💙📚
All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes..
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life-just imagine that
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another. ~Mary Oliver
#poetry
All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes..
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life-just imagine that
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another. ~Mary Oliver
#poetry
Resistance takes many forms.
“Resist outrageous charts spelling doom.
However you can, rely on sun and wind.
Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle.”
~Louise Erdrich
#poetry #resistance #ArtWillSaveTheWorld
“Resist outrageous charts spelling doom.
However you can, rely on sun and wind.
Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle.”
~Louise Erdrich
#poetry #resistance #ArtWillSaveTheWorld
Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance
“Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 24, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Resistance takes many forms.
“Resist outrageous charts spelling doom.
However you can, rely on sun and wind.
Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle.”
~Louise Erdrich
#poetry #resistance #ArtWillSaveTheWorld
“Resist outrageous charts spelling doom.
However you can, rely on sun and wind.
Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle.”
~Louise Erdrich
#poetry #resistance #ArtWillSaveTheWorld
Good morning friends.🙋♀️We cannot let anyone steal our Joy. Stay on your path, the one that makes you feel alive to the precious privileges.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
#photography
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
#photography
November 24, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Good morning friends.🙋♀️We cannot let anyone steal our Joy. Stay on your path, the one that makes you feel alive to the precious privileges.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
#photography
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
#photography
Reposted by Luci in the Sky
The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said:
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!
November 23, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said:
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!
Mornings with Mary 💙📚
Sometimes
I need only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #photography
Sometimes
I need only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #photography
November 22, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Mornings with Mary 💙📚
Sometimes
I need only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #photography
Sometimes
I need only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #photography
Yes, this. Exactly this. Enuff already with Dems abandoning the working class as a rationale & narrative. Not true, as evidenced by, you know, Facts & Reality. But this below, this is the key to understanding the results & outcomes. It’s information warfare.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control
Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Yes, this. Exactly this. Enuff already with Dems abandoning the working class as a rationale & narrative. Not true, as evidenced by, you know, Facts & Reality. But this below, this is the key to understanding the results & outcomes. It’s information warfare.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...
“…something was left standing, stirring — that same creative force that made of the chaos a new era of possibility never previously imagined: civil rights and women’s liberation, solar panels and antibiotics, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nina Simone.” #art
“…something was left standing, stirring — that same creative force that made of the chaos a new era of possibility never previously imagined: civil rights and women’s liberation, solar panels and antibiotics, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nina Simone.” #art
A Lighthouse for Dark Times
This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…
www.themarginalian.org
November 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...
“…something was left standing, stirring — that same creative force that made of the chaos a new era of possibility never previously imagined: civil rights and women’s liberation, solar panels and antibiotics, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nina Simone.” #art
“…something was left standing, stirring — that same creative force that made of the chaos a new era of possibility never previously imagined: civil rights and women’s liberation, solar panels and antibiotics, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nina Simone.” #art
Morning Musings with Einstein: a few small acts goes a long way.💙📚💙
“ Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." -J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." -J.R.R. Tolkien
November 20, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Morning Musings with Einstein: a few small acts goes a long way.💙📚💙
“ Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." -J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." -J.R.R. Tolkien
Good morning friends. Please join me in beginning your day with an observational word from Poet Mary Oliver in a new daily practice bound to elevate your spirit, if even a wee bit. Rather than doom scrolling & news, try Morning Coffee with Mary.
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#poetry
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#poetry
November 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Good morning friends. Please join me in beginning your day with an observational word from Poet Mary Oliver in a new daily practice bound to elevate your spirit, if even a wee bit. Rather than doom scrolling & news, try Morning Coffee with Mary.
💙📚💙
#poetry
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#poetry
Morning coffee with Mary rather than the news. So refreshing! Take yourself out into the morning & find something- anything- that makes you smile. 💙📚
#poetry
#poetry
November 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Morning coffee with Mary rather than the news. So refreshing! Take yourself out into the morning & find something- anything- that makes you smile. 💙📚
#poetry
#poetry
By my calculations, we’re at the 5th Harry Potter book when Dolores Umbridge takes over as Head Mistress & He-who-shall-not-be-named is trying to take over Hogwarts & the Ministry of Magic. Epic battle btwn the forces of Good & evil, Love & fear. Love wins in the end tho. So say we all.) #LoveWins
November 16, 2024 at 6:29 PM
By my calculations, we’re at the 5th Harry Potter book when Dolores Umbridge takes over as Head Mistress & He-who-shall-not-be-named is trying to take over Hogwarts & the Ministry of Magic. Epic battle btwn the forces of Good & evil, Love & fear. Love wins in the end tho. So say we all.) #LoveWins
Hello friendos
It would be terrible if you told people about Books Unbanned, a program to get free library cards into the hands of teens and young adults anywhere in the country so they can access e-copies of frequently banned materials.
Freedom to read.
They can sign up here: booksunbanned.com
It would be terrible if you told people about Books Unbanned, a program to get free library cards into the hands of teens and young adults anywhere in the country so they can access e-copies of frequently banned materials.
Freedom to read.
They can sign up here: booksunbanned.com
Books Unbanned
Inspired by the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Statement and the Library Bill of Rights, Brooklyn Public Library founded Books Unbanned in 2022 to support the rights of teens nationwid...
booksunbanned.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
On the first morning of our super full moon I suspect a little Barbara Kingsolver on HOW To Be HOPEFUL is in order. (Yes, she’s a wonderful poet as well as a Pulitzer Prize winning author from KY.) 👉🏼”Tiptoe
Past the dogs of the apocalypse
Asleep in the shade of your future.”📚
#poetry #hope
Past the dogs of the apocalypse
Asleep in the shade of your future.”📚
#poetry #hope
November 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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I too am tiring of these false narratives from the MSM. NO, it’s not the economy & NO Dems haven’t abandoned the working class.🤦♀️It’s information warfare, a battle against misinformation. It’s the information ecosystem & control of the narrative.
#informationwar
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I too am tiring of these false narratives from the MSM. NO, it’s not the economy & NO Dems haven’t abandoned the working class.🤦♀️It’s information warfare, a battle against misinformation. It’s the information ecosystem & control of the narrative.
#informationwar
Turning off the News
It's time to break up with the mainstream media.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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I too am tiring of these false narratives from the MSM. NO, it’s not the economy & NO Dems haven’t abandoned the working class.🤦♀️It’s information warfare, a battle against misinformation. It’s the information ecosystem & control of the narrative.
#informationwar
💯%
I too am tiring of these false narratives from the MSM. NO, it’s not the economy & NO Dems haven’t abandoned the working class.🤦♀️It’s information warfare, a battle against misinformation. It’s the information ecosystem & control of the narrative.
#informationwar
November 15, 2024 at 1:06 PM