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Rachel
@rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst, teacher, &
#vss365 Ambassador

Narrowing the gap between theory & life as lived.
Pinned
Libertine Sunflower
Garden confines
Metropolis preferred

#vss365 #libertine
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Chivalry has been dead
ever since Don Quixote
went completely...
struggled with
mental health concerns,
but there were no therapists
so he rode his horse
from town to town
while hallucinating
just like those of us
who've gone completely...
struggling with
mental health concerns

#vss365 #chivalrous
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I turn my gaze to you, Siren. Nothing can prevent your poetry from reaching me. You are at the far end of time, yet I see you vividly. You are crashing me against the granite shore of safe reasoning. Mad is this aching. Mad, your beauty. There's nothing #chivalrous in you or your beckoning.
#vss365
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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the chivalrous oaks
bend to bow before
the wind passes by

and the wind carries
the acorns on, so oaks
can pass life to the next

#vss365 #chivalrous
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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#vss365

chivalrous outlook
lightens aphotic season;
offers coat of snow

#chivalrous #aphotic
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Deliberation shapes the words pulling close the truths that ache to be understood. Yet they come alive only when someone meets them. Between giver and receiver, the conduit completes its arc. There is something chivalrous in it. Undeniably so.

#vss365 #prompt December 3rd #chivalrous

📸 S. Corso
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The chivalrous city beckons me back whenever I'm ready.

An open invitation resides in my heart.

#vss365 #chivalrous
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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You know what's funny? Dark as they are, black holes are the opposite of #aphotic because all light reaches them, it just can't get back out.
#vss365
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#vss365

#Aphotic – a word that
defines itself by exclusion.

Not radiant, not visible,
not what the eye requests.

It performs subtraction beautifully.

Meaning arrives by erasure.
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Soul drenched under
Some kind of eclipse lunar
#Aphotic eyes that hypnotise
I feel myself morphing
Into something
Brighter

You and I
Such as the night basking
In the moonlights’ steady glow
Through the darkness
Our bond stronger, shines

#vss365 #poetry
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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aphotic night departs
as silhouettes rise
and we find the shape
of another day

#vss365 #aphotic
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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In poetry & prose, light often stirs as sight begins to loosen. What the world keeps at its surface slips inward, settling into aphotic depths that draw forth another illumination. Soft & unlike anything the eye alone can find.

The #vss365 #prompt for December 2nd: #aphotic
✍️✨
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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a light
in the #aphotic zone
lanternfish

#vss365
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Evening's
Aphotic
Longings
Await
Morning's
Light

#vss365 #aphotic
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
S
U
A
V E

Everyone laughs when he tries to be suave.

#vss365 #suave
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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through poetry
things last
just a bit longer

#vss365 #last
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Thank you for being here, thank U for responding to the prompts & last of all
B happy
B healthy
B you
Because Health Matters & YOU matter 🫂

A #last reminder 2 follow the talented @sanjar.bsky.social your host from 1-15 Dec posting time 8amGMT

The #vss365 #prompt for 30 Nov #Last
a shooting star in the night sky with the words `` you make the universe special '' written on it .
ALT: a shooting star in the night sky with the words `` you make the universe special '' written on it .
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November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
On the corner of 110th and Riverside Drive we stood outside and watched the most magnificent winter sky.

That was our last sunset before we left New York City.

#vss365 #last
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
All that matters has
s
h
i
f
t

e
d

#vss365 #matters
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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From a cauldron of despair
They seek solace from the heat
Open the doors
Let them feel the cool breeze
Or a drop of cold
from a healthy finger
There may be small fires
from fleeing scorched feet
But green pastures restore
as a place for the meek
#vss365 #health #poetry
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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end of year
I measure my health
in books read
#vss365 #senryu
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When the clouds dance through the sky the earth's health is replenished and the day sparkles with possibilities.

Joy Infiltrates.

#vss365 #health
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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#vss365

making mistakes is mandatory
learning from them is an option

#learning
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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late November
learning to walk through
falling things

#vss365 #learning
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
1. Learning
2. Unlearning
3. Critical Thinking
4. Re-Learning
5. Free Thinking

#vss365 #learning
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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the moon's reflection
casting her form on the lake
a wolf steps softly

#vss365 #reflection #haiku
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM