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Adrienne Brown
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Environmental sociologist | crafter, reader, hiker, cat mom | Mountains-to-desert transplant (she/her)
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Describe your cat’s personality with one photo
Grey tabby cat sitting and looking up with a Halloween bow tie on
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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11 years ago my friends and I reached the Gulf of Mexico, 77 days after leaving Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota in a canoe. I had barely been in a canoe before we started that trip. We met incredible people along the way, and it was at times the most free I have ever felt. #adventure #canoe
Young woman holding a cheap bottle of celebratory champagne in a canoe in the Gulf of Mexico, after paddling the entire length of the Mississippi River in a canoe
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Busy reading month in October. Mostly good, especially (and pleasantly) surprised by Lonely Crowds, I who have never known men, and Everything is Tuberculosis 📚💙
Grid of 12 book covers: Atmosphere, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, When No Thing Works, Lonely Crowds, We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat, Me but Better, Free Food for Millionaires, Beyond Elemental Loss, The Rachel Incident, I Who Have Never Known Men, I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki, and Everything is Tuberculosis
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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One of those epic desert sunsets tonight, to remind me I really do love this place
Bright orange and pink sunset with clouds
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This beautiful guy just landed in the tree branch outside my window with dinner (bad picture through the window screen)
Hawk in tree
October 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Someone gifted me this book a while back, and I’ve recently returned to it. The prompts—each provided with additional text by a different writer or artist—are beautiful and useful and have helped to pull me out of some big slumps💙📚
Book cover of “The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life” by Suleika Jaouad.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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September reads 💙📚
Grid of six book covers: Sister Sinner, Women behind the wheel, Lost souls meet under a full moon, You didn’t hear this from me, The Trees, and The frozen river
September 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Lessons from the Berlin Wall
Mural of trees in forest with sunlight coming through: “so stark and rich verletzbar das volk, der mensch der wald, der Baum” (so stark and yet so vulnerable, the crowd, the person, the forest, the tree) Mural with text in German and English (“many small people who in many small places do many small things that can alter the face of the world”) Black and might mural with German and English text (“he who wants the world to remain as it is doesn’t want it to remain at all”) Mural with text: “lead me on my dreams among different time and space. To share hope with nations and believers. To observe with modesty and pure truth. And to reveal prudently the magic and the mystery”
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The light in Dresden has been *incredible* this week
Mjsty morning with flowers and the sommerpalais, sun rising in the background Morning sun shining on tower Sun rising at the of tree-lined path, looking like autumn Sommerpalais with thick layer of low fog at sunrise
September 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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August reads 📚💙 The Family Fang, The Covenant of Water, The Emperor of Gladness, and The Nightingale were particularly great
Grid of 9 book covers: The Family Fang, Algospeak, The Covenant of Water, Ghosts, Colored Television, The Emperor of Gladness, The Life Impossible, The Nightingale, and bel canto.
August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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International cat day?!

Almost 1 year ago exactly, I went for a walk on my 35th birthday. I found this tiny, abandoned kitten with a broken tail, in 100+ degree temps. I took him home, no one claimed him, and now I couldn’t imagine my life without him
Small grey kitten on brown couch being pe Big grey cat on white bookshelf near plant
August 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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A perfect morning on the river. Even saw a whole family of river otters! #nature
Front of kayak facing river and canyon, mountains mirrored in the water
August 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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July reads! A good month of books, would recommend any and all of them 📚💙
Grid of nine book covers: The Last Whaler, Girl in Girl, Run for the Hills, Four Squares, Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird, Big Chief, Little Bosses Everywhere, You Dreamed of Empires, The Sense of an Ending
July 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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When my newborn niece came home and they brought her outside, a frog jumped onto her to visit. So I made her this cross-stitch. All that’s left is adding her name across the top and cleaning it up a bit 🧶
Circular cross stitch on black background. Image of two frogs roasting marshmallows over a campfire
July 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The best kind of riches
Four photos of sand dollars at the ocean
July 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Summer bounty: cobbler with wild blackberries
Piece of blackberry cobbler in bowl on blue pattern tablecloth
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Rainbow cat 🌈🐈
Grey tabby cat laying on the floor and looking at the camera with several rainbows on and around him
July 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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June reads 💙📚 So grateful for the comfort & knowledge & community & joy books give, in good times and bad. This month, my favorite was “There are Rivers in the Sky” by Elif Shafak.
Grid of nine book covers: Punch me up to the Gods, There are Rivers in the Sky, Black Woods Blue Sky, Audition, The Coast Road, Orbital, Heart Lamp, The Haves and Have-Yachts, and The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
July 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Successful hunt for snow plants today
Three pink snow plants Two pink snow plants against background of greenery Single snow plant growing out of rock Snow plant and ferns
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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May reads! 📚💙

I enjoyed the Ibis Trilogy but I was ready for the end. I really loved The Serviceberry.The Snow Child, City of Night Birds, and Homeseeking were all solid.
Grid of 9 book covers: River of Smoke, The Snow Child, City of Night Birds, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Homeseeking, Rental House, The Serviceberry, Flood of Fire, and Perfect Little World.
May 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Grow where you are
Grass growing through crumbling wall
May 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Low-key Saturday, finished a little collage today 🧶
Paper collage of coastline scene
May 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Some good April reads. I have to say, one of the most unexpected joys of my reading life this past year has been discovering the genre of short Japanese novels about magical cats. So not something I ever thought I’d love, but truly a balm for hard times 💙📚
Grid of seven book covers: Stoneyard Devotional, Infinite Country, We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, Splinters, A Life of One’s Own, The Wind Knows My Name, and Sea of Poppies
April 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Flashback to two years ago at beautiful Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal 📚💙
Elaborate staircase in Livraria Lello bookstore
April 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A healthy dose of water and greenery
Ferns on mossy rock wall Rocky creek with whitewater Darmera with small pink and white flowers in creek Blue-green lake with rocks and trees
April 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM