Hoarse Whisperer
@therealhoarse.bsky.social
Father, writer, photographer, drinker of Guinness.
Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Had an amazing New Year’s Eve or made it to 2026, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Had an amazing New Year’s Eve or made it to 2026, both work. Just something good.
January 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Had an amazing New Year’s Eve or made it to 2026, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Had an amazing New Year’s Eve or made it to 2026, both work. Just something good.
“Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness” - Counting Crows, ‘Ghost Train’
happen to catch one of those passing by while rumbling through the darkness myself during a light snow a few weeks ago.
happen to catch one of those passing by while rumbling through the darkness myself during a light snow a few weeks ago.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
“Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness” - Counting Crows, ‘Ghost Train’
happen to catch one of those passing by while rumbling through the darkness myself during a light snow a few weeks ago.
happen to catch one of those passing by while rumbling through the darkness myself during a light snow a few weeks ago.
A couple more shots of the barred owl I saw yesterday…
January 2, 2026 at 5:17 AM
A couple more shots of the barred owl I saw yesterday…
New Year, new me.
Technically, it’s more like ‘old me’… but being back to being that person feels pretty new.
Got out with the camera yest for the first time in ages. Nature came ‘round to welcome me back. Even this barred owl popped by to say hello.
Let’s GO, 2026. It’s gonna be a good year.
Technically, it’s more like ‘old me’… but being back to being that person feels pretty new.
Got out with the camera yest for the first time in ages. Nature came ‘round to welcome me back. Even this barred owl popped by to say hello.
Let’s GO, 2026. It’s gonna be a good year.
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
New Year, new me.
Technically, it’s more like ‘old me’… but being back to being that person feels pretty new.
Got out with the camera yest for the first time in ages. Nature came ‘round to welcome me back. Even this barred owl popped by to say hello.
Let’s GO, 2026. It’s gonna be a good year.
Technically, it’s more like ‘old me’… but being back to being that person feels pretty new.
Got out with the camera yest for the first time in ages. Nature came ‘round to welcome me back. Even this barred owl popped by to say hello.
Let’s GO, 2026. It’s gonna be a good year.
Me in 2025: I’m never leaving my room again.
Me five minutes into 2026:
Me five minutes into 2026:
a man looking through a doorway at a framed picture of a game show called the price is right
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January 1, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Me in 2025: I’m never leaving my room again.
Me five minutes into 2026:
Me five minutes into 2026:
Maybe we should put a wooden stake through 2025 just to be sure.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Maybe we should put a wooden stake through 2025 just to be sure.
Weekly tradition: finding some rays of light no matter how dark the clouds. There is always some light. Finding it matters most when it is hardest.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Felt brand new or felt like your old self again, just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Felt brand new or felt like your old self again, just something good.
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Weekly tradition: finding some rays of light no matter how dark the clouds. There is always some light. Finding it matters most when it is hardest.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Felt brand new or felt like your old self again, just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Felt brand new or felt like your old self again, just something good.
New York City Marathon today.
It has taken an entire year of not training, but today, I move another step closer to achieving my lifelong goal of never running a marathon.
It has taken an entire year of not training, but today, I move another step closer to achieving my lifelong goal of never running a marathon.
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New York City Marathon today.
It has taken an entire year of not training, but today, I move another step closer to achieving my lifelong goal of never running a marathon.
It has taken an entire year of not training, but today, I move another step closer to achieving my lifelong goal of never running a marathon.
I accidentally took the wrong drink at Dunkin’ Donuts this morning and didn’t tell them.
Am I going to hell? Or just prison?
Am I going to hell? Or just prison?
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I accidentally took the wrong drink at Dunkin’ Donuts this morning and didn’t tell them.
Am I going to hell? Or just prison?
Am I going to hell? Or just prison?
It’s really all about how you put things.
If you say “Jeffrey Dahmer murdered his boyfriend and then ate his face,” well, that sounds sort of bad.
If you put it as more “one man’s brave journey to find healing after a loss by switching to the Keto diet,” it sort of takes the edge off, ya know?
If you say “Jeffrey Dahmer murdered his boyfriend and then ate his face,” well, that sounds sort of bad.
If you put it as more “one man’s brave journey to find healing after a loss by switching to the Keto diet,” it sort of takes the edge off, ya know?
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It’s really all about how you put things.
If you say “Jeffrey Dahmer murdered his boyfriend and then ate his face,” well, that sounds sort of bad.
If you put it as more “one man’s brave journey to find healing after a loss by switching to the Keto diet,” it sort of takes the edge off, ya know?
If you say “Jeffrey Dahmer murdered his boyfriend and then ate his face,” well, that sounds sort of bad.
If you put it as more “one man’s brave journey to find healing after a loss by switching to the Keto diet,” it sort of takes the edge off, ya know?
If I treated someone horrifically… I dunno… maybe this is just me… but I don’t think I would write a book that made it sound like I was off in Tibet on a brave solo climb up Mount Healing during the period when I was severely abusing them. Probably just me.
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If I treated someone horrifically… I dunno… maybe this is just me… but I don’t think I would write a book that made it sound like I was off in Tibet on a brave solo climb up Mount Healing during the period when I was severely abusing them. Probably just me.
Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or made plans for winter, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or made plans for winter, both work. Just something good.
October 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or made plans for winter, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or made plans for winter, both work. Just something good.
For nearly ten years now, I’ve been asking people to share One Good Thing from their week.
This week, I need to ask people to be the One Good Thing in mine.
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This week, I need to ask people to be the One Good Thing in mine.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
For nearly ten years now, I’ve been asking people to share One Good Thing from their week.
This week, I need to ask people to be the One Good Thing in mine.
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This week, I need to ask people to be the One Good Thing in mine.
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Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or enjoyed a last taste of summer, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or enjoyed a last taste of summer, both work. Just something good.
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Weekly tradition time: finding some color no matter how gray the skies.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or enjoyed a last taste of summer, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Got in the fall spirit or enjoyed a last taste of summer, both work. Just something good.
Weekly tradition time: finding some rays of light no matter the weather.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Caught the perfect sunset or made it through the dark to reach sunrise, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Caught the perfect sunset or made it through the dark to reach sunrise, both work. Just something good.
September 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Weekly tradition time: finding some rays of light no matter the weather.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Caught the perfect sunset or made it through the dark to reach sunrise, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Caught the perfect sunset or made it through the dark to reach sunrise, both work. Just something good.
When someone who made a life of profiting from inhumanity is themselves on the receiving end of inhumanity, I don’t lose my humanity in response.
I acknowledge an act of inhumanity has occurred and will now cause suffering by people not party to it.
Then I return to places where humanity exists.
I acknowledge an act of inhumanity has occurred and will now cause suffering by people not party to it.
Then I return to places where humanity exists.
September 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
When someone who made a life of profiting from inhumanity is themselves on the receiving end of inhumanity, I don’t lose my humanity in response.
I acknowledge an act of inhumanity has occurred and will now cause suffering by people not party to it.
Then I return to places where humanity exists.
I acknowledge an act of inhumanity has occurred and will now cause suffering by people not party to it.
Then I return to places where humanity exists.
That moment when your son just started his senior year of high school… and then you see a Cheerio under the sofa… and it flashes you back to 15 years ago - which was also just 15 minutes ago… and then you’re singing Cat’s in the Cradle and hugging the Cheerios box.
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
That moment when your son just started his senior year of high school… and then you see a Cheerio under the sofa… and it flashes you back to 15 years ago - which was also just 15 minutes ago… and then you’re singing Cat’s in the Cradle and hugging the Cheerios box.
Like MacArthur to the Philippines, I have returned to the shores of social media.
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
September 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Like MacArthur to the Philippines, I have returned to the shores of social media.
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
August 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Major or minor, either is fine. Just something good.
Time for a mid-summer edition of our (usually) weekly tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Big or small. Won the lottery or found a dollar in the dryer, either works. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Big or small. Won the lottery or found a dollar in the dryer, either works. Just something good.
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Time for a mid-summer edition of our (usually) weekly tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Big or small. Won the lottery or found a dollar in the dryer, either works. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Big or small. Won the lottery or found a dollar in the dryer, either works. Just something good.
This week has been extra tedious so I am going to regale in every single one of your contributions to our weekly tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something shiny to share. Even if it’s just the dime you found in the dryer.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something shiny to share. Even if it’s just the dime you found in the dryer.
July 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This week has been extra tedious so I am going to regale in every single one of your contributions to our weekly tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something shiny to share. Even if it’s just the dime you found in the dryer.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something shiny to share. Even if it’s just the dime you found in the dryer.
Weekly tradition time: finding some joy no matter how small, no matter how hard.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Found your calling or found a dollar in the dryer, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Found your calling or found a dollar in the dryer, both work. Just something good.
June 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Weekly tradition time: finding some joy no matter how small, no matter how hard.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Found your calling or found a dollar in the dryer, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Found your calling or found a dollar in the dryer, both work. Just something good.
Friday tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something. Whether you usually contribute or don’t, this one week, find something no matter how small… and join in celebrating others’ wins. They never fail to uplift.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something. Whether you usually contribute or don’t, this one week, find something no matter how small… and join in celebrating others’ wins. They never fail to uplift.
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Friday tradition.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something. Whether you usually contribute or don’t, this one week, find something no matter how small… and join in celebrating others’ wins. They never fail to uplift.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Find something. Whether you usually contribute or don’t, this one week, find something no matter how small… and join in celebrating others’ wins. They never fail to uplift.
Sorry I’m tardy but let’s do this.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Hit the boardwalk or passed Go and collected $200, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Hit the boardwalk or passed Go and collected $200, both work. Just something good.
June 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sorry I’m tardy but let’s do this.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Hit the boardwalk or passed Go and collected $200, both work. Just something good.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Hit the boardwalk or passed Go and collected $200, both work. Just something good.