Jennifer Messner
@occasionallyzen.bsky.social
Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Still light at 4:30 pm *and* my hold book came in!
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Still light at 4:30 pm *and* my hold book came in!
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Bike Walk Savannah, an organization I cofounded, is hiring an executive director and an events and education program coordinator. Details:
Jobs - Bike Walk Savannah
Interested in working at Bike Walk Savannah? View available jobs here. Bike Walk Savannah is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit advocacy organization working to create safe streets for all road users. […...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Bike Walk Savannah, an organization I cofounded, is hiring an executive director and an events and education program coordinator. Details:
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January 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it.
Rereading a favorite ✨🪄
Lev Grossman, The Magicians #sundaysentence #booksky
Rereading a favorite ✨🪄
Lev Grossman, The Magicians #sundaysentence #booksky
January 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it.
Rereading a favorite ✨🪄
Lev Grossman, The Magicians #sundaysentence #booksky
Rereading a favorite ✨🪄
Lev Grossman, The Magicians #sundaysentence #booksky
January 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
January 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Oh, I got you 😂
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Oh, I got you 😂
... a fiction is not a web of lies, with the truth, still squirming and alive, at its center; in a fiction, truth and lies are spun together, inseparable, in the same slender thread of silk. What the web catches is a matter of chance.
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
... a fiction is not a web of lies, with the truth, still squirming and alive, at its center; in a fiction, truth and lies are spun together, inseparable, in the same slender thread of silk. What the web catches is a matter of chance.
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
Coffee and processing the chaos of the moment good morning
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Coffee and processing the chaos of the moment good morning
Good morning and Happy New Year, good people of Blue sky 🎉☕❄️📚📷🌳🏡🐱🐶🐾
January 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Good morning and Happy New Year, good people of Blue sky 🎉☕❄️📚📷🌳🏡🐱🐶🐾
Nearing the end and loving every sentence; remembering one of my favorite college classes with the author's mother, Anita, many years ago. Feeling the connected themes, authors, history and influences over the years, traveling in parallel, timeless and new.
Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
December 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nearing the end and loving every sentence; remembering one of my favorite college classes with the author's mother, Anita, many years ago. Feeling the connected themes, authors, history and influences over the years, traveling in parallel, timeless and new.
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paths the imagination travels towards.
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
paths the imagination travels towards.
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It can't have been cheap, but I applaud the developer of this brand-new building on 63rd St. for making it look like something that's been there for a hundred years (even common brick on the rear/side walls)
December 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It can't have been cheap, but I applaud the developer of this brand-new building on 63rd St. for making it look like something that's been there for a hundred years (even common brick on the rear/side walls)
Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence
