Ed Armstrong
@armst-ed.bsky.social
Communications professional. Loves to learn and share knowledge. Let's do this. #Environment #SocialJustice #Episcopalian #Writer. Call me Ed
Interview with Matthiessen biographer Lance Richardson
"True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" tops my TRB biography category. Because, Matthiessen.
Homework for the #writingcommunity.
#Booksky #nature #wildlife #activist #writer #ZenMaster
tinyurl.com/bdb4657n
"True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" tops my TRB biography category. Because, Matthiessen.
Homework for the #writingcommunity.
#Booksky #nature #wildlife #activist #writer #ZenMaster
tinyurl.com/bdb4657n
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Interview with Matthiessen biographer Lance Richardson
"True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" tops my TRB biography category. Because, Matthiessen.
Homework for the #writingcommunity.
#Booksky #nature #wildlife #activist #writer #ZenMaster
tinyurl.com/bdb4657n
"True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" tops my TRB biography category. Because, Matthiessen.
Homework for the #writingcommunity.
#Booksky #nature #wildlife #activist #writer #ZenMaster
tinyurl.com/bdb4657n
#Democrats hold Double-Digit Lead on 2026 Generic Ballot
#MaristPoll conducted Nov 10-13 finds Dems leading #Republicans 55-41. Leading #Independents by a whopping 61%-28% tally...33 points!
#Trump approval at 39%.
#Midterms #Congress #Polls
via Marist tinyurl.com/m3ss2c2f
#MaristPoll conducted Nov 10-13 finds Dems leading #Republicans 55-41. Leading #Independents by a whopping 61%-28% tally...33 points!
#Trump approval at 39%.
#Midterms #Congress #Polls
via Marist tinyurl.com/m3ss2c2f
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#Democrats hold Double-Digit Lead on 2026 Generic Ballot
#MaristPoll conducted Nov 10-13 finds Dems leading #Republicans 55-41. Leading #Independents by a whopping 61%-28% tally...33 points!
#Trump approval at 39%.
#Midterms #Congress #Polls
via Marist tinyurl.com/m3ss2c2f
#MaristPoll conducted Nov 10-13 finds Dems leading #Republicans 55-41. Leading #Independents by a whopping 61%-28% tally...33 points!
#Trump approval at 39%.
#Midterms #Congress #Polls
via Marist tinyurl.com/m3ss2c2f
Latest read The Hearts of Horses. #Author Molly Gloss displays great command of subject and the "circle ride" used by horse breakers of the era to service clients is a perfect story-telling motif. The plot meanders a bit, but I strongly rec for #YA women.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #horses #books
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #horses #books
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It's Fungi Sunday on #Bluesky!
Seen on #SundayMorning run, an eruption of Coker's Amanita mushrooms in the lawn outside nearby school. Dozens of them. Love the Autum colors. 💙
Had to share. 📷
#naturephotography #mushrooms #photography #Running #Sunday #nature 🙏
Seen on #SundayMorning run, an eruption of Coker's Amanita mushrooms in the lawn outside nearby school. Dozens of them. Love the Autum colors. 💙
Had to share. 📷
#naturephotography #mushrooms #photography #Running #Sunday #nature 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's Fungi Sunday on #Bluesky!
Seen on #SundayMorning run, an eruption of Coker's Amanita mushrooms in the lawn outside nearby school. Dozens of them. Love the Autum colors. 💙
Had to share. 📷
#naturephotography #mushrooms #photography #Running #Sunday #nature 🙏
Seen on #SundayMorning run, an eruption of Coker's Amanita mushrooms in the lawn outside nearby school. Dozens of them. Love the Autum colors. 💙
Had to share. 📷
#naturephotography #mushrooms #photography #Running #Sunday #nature 🙏
Finished Almanac of the Dead! Hefty read at 763 pp. Very insightful, mostly entertaining, occasionally shocking. So many key characters, my God, I had to make a chart. My heart ached for Seese and Sterling.
#writingcommunity #booksky #readingcommunity #Indian #Mexico #Arizona #HistoricalFiction
#writingcommunity #booksky #readingcommunity #Indian #Mexico #Arizona #HistoricalFiction
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Finished Almanac of the Dead! Hefty read at 763 pp. Very insightful, mostly entertaining, occasionally shocking. So many key characters, my God, I had to make a chart. My heart ached for Seese and Sterling.
#writingcommunity #booksky #readingcommunity #Indian #Mexico #Arizona #HistoricalFiction
#writingcommunity #booksky #readingcommunity #Indian #Mexico #Arizona #HistoricalFiction
How the #WhiteHouse complex will look with new #Ballroom
Here's the before/after.
It's an abomination. #Heartbreaking #Trump
GIF via Washington Post
Here's the before/after.
It's an abomination. #Heartbreaking #Trump
GIF via Washington Post
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How the #WhiteHouse complex will look with new #Ballroom
Here's the before/after.
It's an abomination. #Heartbreaking #Trump
GIF via Washington Post
Here's the before/after.
It's an abomination. #Heartbreaking #Trump
GIF via Washington Post
Spooky! Seen on Morning Run - #Halloween edition.
That's a 5-foot wingspan #Vulture staking out a neighbor's roof. Some say it's a harbinger of sickness and death. I think it's just vulture being vulture. Boo! 👻
#photography #wildlife #birds #nature #naturephotography
That's a 5-foot wingspan #Vulture staking out a neighbor's roof. Some say it's a harbinger of sickness and death. I think it's just vulture being vulture. Boo! 👻
#photography #wildlife #birds #nature #naturephotography
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Spooky! Seen on Morning Run - #Halloween edition.
That's a 5-foot wingspan #Vulture staking out a neighbor's roof. Some say it's a harbinger of sickness and death. I think it's just vulture being vulture. Boo! 👻
#photography #wildlife #birds #nature #naturephotography
That's a 5-foot wingspan #Vulture staking out a neighbor's roof. Some say it's a harbinger of sickness and death. I think it's just vulture being vulture. Boo! 👻
#photography #wildlife #birds #nature #naturephotography
A week starter for #writers and the #writingcommunity.
Quote from Virginia Woolf cited by Ursula K. Le Guin in Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.
It's about the #rhythm writers! Work at it.
Happy writing 🙏
Quote from Virginia Woolf cited by Ursula K. Le Guin in Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.
It's about the #rhythm writers! Work at it.
Happy writing 🙏
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A week starter for #writers and the #writingcommunity.
Quote from Virginia Woolf cited by Ursula K. Le Guin in Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.
It's about the #rhythm writers! Work at it.
Happy writing 🙏
Quote from Virginia Woolf cited by Ursula K. Le Guin in Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.
It's about the #rhythm writers! Work at it.
Happy writing 🙏
Hanging with my #friend #mentor #employer #shaman #counselor, the former #Congressman and #Governor and #Progressive #Liberal stalwart Bob Wise at a Wise staff reunion last night. Thank you for everything great sir.
🙌💙🙏
🙌💙🙏
October 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hanging with my #friend #mentor #employer #shaman #counselor, the former #Congressman and #Governor and #Progressive #Liberal stalwart Bob Wise at a Wise staff reunion last night. Thank you for everything great sir.
🙌💙🙏
🙌💙🙏
#SundayMorning Sunrise
Seen on morning run. If the moon is bright and I time it right, I can run the Pepco right-of-way so I emerge into the sunrise about a half mile from my house.
Night trail running is a bit scary and precarious, but the #RunnersHigh at daybreak is pure #Nirvana.
#Bless 🙏
Seen on morning run. If the moon is bright and I time it right, I can run the Pepco right-of-way so I emerge into the sunrise about a half mile from my house.
Night trail running is a bit scary and precarious, but the #RunnersHigh at daybreak is pure #Nirvana.
#Bless 🙏
October 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#SundayMorning Sunrise
Seen on morning run. If the moon is bright and I time it right, I can run the Pepco right-of-way so I emerge into the sunrise about a half mile from my house.
Night trail running is a bit scary and precarious, but the #RunnersHigh at daybreak is pure #Nirvana.
#Bless 🙏
Seen on morning run. If the moon is bright and I time it right, I can run the Pepco right-of-way so I emerge into the sunrise about a half mile from my house.
Night trail running is a bit scary and precarious, but the #RunnersHigh at daybreak is pure #Nirvana.
#Bless 🙏
Seen on #SundayMorning run. "You Can't Fence Me In."
This purple clematis' bravery belies its beauty. No fragile flower, it refused to live inside the fence so it squeezed through and bloomed on the outside.
Bravo pretty flower, bravo!
#Sundaywisdom #photography #naturephotography
This purple clematis' bravery belies its beauty. No fragile flower, it refused to live inside the fence so it squeezed through and bloomed on the outside.
Bravo pretty flower, bravo!
#Sundaywisdom #photography #naturephotography
September 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Seen on #SundayMorning run. "You Can't Fence Me In."
This purple clematis' bravery belies its beauty. No fragile flower, it refused to live inside the fence so it squeezed through and bloomed on the outside.
Bravo pretty flower, bravo!
#Sundaywisdom #photography #naturephotography
This purple clematis' bravery belies its beauty. No fragile flower, it refused to live inside the fence so it squeezed through and bloomed on the outside.
Bravo pretty flower, bravo!
#Sundaywisdom #photography #naturephotography
We desperately need more #RobertRedford type role models. He could've coasted on his looks, fame and fortune, but he chose to do good with it. So saddened by his passing. RIP 🙏
I vacationed in Park City, UT a few years back. All the locals had a RR encounter story. Such reverence I've rarely seen.
I vacationed in Park City, UT a few years back. All the locals had a RR encounter story. Such reverence I've rarely seen.
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We desperately need more #RobertRedford type role models. He could've coasted on his looks, fame and fortune, but he chose to do good with it. So saddened by his passing. RIP 🙏
I vacationed in Park City, UT a few years back. All the locals had a RR encounter story. Such reverence I've rarely seen.
I vacationed in Park City, UT a few years back. All the locals had a RR encounter story. Such reverence I've rarely seen.
Trump admin halting environmental, health projects in Black communities
Supporters say they're unfairly dismissing projects as #DEI, e.g. a grant to upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that residents have contracted hookworm.
#EnvironmentalJustice #EPA #CancerAlley
tinyurl.com/2s4b4aba
Supporters say they're unfairly dismissing projects as #DEI, e.g. a grant to upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that residents have contracted hookworm.
#EnvironmentalJustice #EPA #CancerAlley
tinyurl.com/2s4b4aba
September 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump admin halting environmental, health projects in Black communities
Supporters say they're unfairly dismissing projects as #DEI, e.g. a grant to upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that residents have contracted hookworm.
#EnvironmentalJustice #EPA #CancerAlley
tinyurl.com/2s4b4aba
Supporters say they're unfairly dismissing projects as #DEI, e.g. a grant to upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that residents have contracted hookworm.
#EnvironmentalJustice #EPA #CancerAlley
tinyurl.com/2s4b4aba
I kept the WaPo Special from September 11, 2001, not sure what purpose it's served. Not like I don't remember it all vividly. Worked in DC, block from the WH. They locked us down, then they made us evacuate.
We still don't know what to do. Bless all.
We still don't know what to do. Bless all.
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I kept the WaPo Special from September 11, 2001, not sure what purpose it's served. Not like I don't remember it all vividly. Worked in DC, block from the WH. They locked us down, then they made us evacuate.
We still don't know what to do. Bless all.
We still don't know what to do. Bless all.
This is my arm proudly displaying band-aids from today's #Covid19 #vaccination and seasonal #fluShot.
This is dedicated to #RFKJr, I can proudly proclaim it didn't hurt a bit and I feel great--and protected from very real dangers.
Go get your #jab! #Vaccines are safe!
#Healthcare #CDC #covid
This is dedicated to #RFKJr, I can proudly proclaim it didn't hurt a bit and I feel great--and protected from very real dangers.
Go get your #jab! #Vaccines are safe!
#Healthcare #CDC #covid
September 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is my arm proudly displaying band-aids from today's #Covid19 #vaccination and seasonal #fluShot.
This is dedicated to #RFKJr, I can proudly proclaim it didn't hurt a bit and I feel great--and protected from very real dangers.
Go get your #jab! #Vaccines are safe!
#Healthcare #CDC #covid
This is dedicated to #RFKJr, I can proudly proclaim it didn't hurt a bit and I feel great--and protected from very real dangers.
Go get your #jab! #Vaccines are safe!
#Healthcare #CDC #covid
Seen on morning run.
This here is "Plumed Cockscomb," or so says the plant ID app.
I was struck by its amazing intricacy, but mostly at how its blossom at upper left seems to levitate above rest of the flower. I think it could be magic.
#nature #flowers #photography #naturephotography
This here is "Plumed Cockscomb," or so says the plant ID app.
I was struck by its amazing intricacy, but mostly at how its blossom at upper left seems to levitate above rest of the flower. I think it could be magic.
#nature #flowers #photography #naturephotography
September 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Seen on morning run.
This here is "Plumed Cockscomb," or so says the plant ID app.
I was struck by its amazing intricacy, but mostly at how its blossom at upper left seems to levitate above rest of the flower. I think it could be magic.
#nature #flowers #photography #naturephotography
This here is "Plumed Cockscomb," or so says the plant ID app.
I was struck by its amazing intricacy, but mostly at how its blossom at upper left seems to levitate above rest of the flower. I think it could be magic.
#nature #flowers #photography #naturephotography
Seen on morning run.
Soccer hooliganism is back. And it's spread to foosball. Is anything sacred?
#hooligans #foosball #photography
Soccer hooliganism is back. And it's spread to foosball. Is anything sacred?
#hooligans #foosball #photography
September 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Seen on morning run.
Soccer hooliganism is back. And it's spread to foosball. Is anything sacred?
#hooligans #foosball #photography
Soccer hooliganism is back. And it's spread to foosball. Is anything sacred?
#hooligans #foosball #photography
September 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wisdom Wednesday on #BlueSky!
Came across this quote on the concept of truth from 8th Century AD Arab Muslim philosopher/scientist Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi.
Be ennobled, seek truth.
#philosophy #knowledge #truth #science #spirituality
Came across this quote on the concept of truth from 8th Century AD Arab Muslim philosopher/scientist Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi.
Be ennobled, seek truth.
#philosophy #knowledge #truth #science #spirituality
August 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Wisdom Wednesday on #BlueSky!
Came across this quote on the concept of truth from 8th Century AD Arab Muslim philosopher/scientist Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi.
Be ennobled, seek truth.
#philosophy #knowledge #truth #science #spirituality
Came across this quote on the concept of truth from 8th Century AD Arab Muslim philosopher/scientist Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi.
Be ennobled, seek truth.
#philosophy #knowledge #truth #science #spirituality
Ruled by Executive Order?
Watching excellent webinar from www.deltek.com. This slide caught my eye.
#TrumpAdministration EO total for first 100 days crushes the output of each of the seven previous presidencies.
Related question: how many oversight hearings has #Congress held on these EOs?
Watching excellent webinar from www.deltek.com. This slide caught my eye.
#TrumpAdministration EO total for first 100 days crushes the output of each of the seven previous presidencies.
Related question: how many oversight hearings has #Congress held on these EOs?
August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ruled by Executive Order?
Watching excellent webinar from www.deltek.com. This slide caught my eye.
#TrumpAdministration EO total for first 100 days crushes the output of each of the seven previous presidencies.
Related question: how many oversight hearings has #Congress held on these EOs?
Watching excellent webinar from www.deltek.com. This slide caught my eye.
#TrumpAdministration EO total for first 100 days crushes the output of each of the seven previous presidencies.
Related question: how many oversight hearings has #Congress held on these EOs?
Interesting #writing practice technique. Hunter S. Thompson was known to retype entire books such as The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms and The Naked and the Dead because he wanted to experience what it was like to physically produce great #books.
#writingcommunity #literature #booksky #amwriting
#writingcommunity #literature #booksky #amwriting
August 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Interesting #writing practice technique. Hunter S. Thompson was known to retype entire books such as The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms and The Naked and the Dead because he wanted to experience what it was like to physically produce great #books.
#writingcommunity #literature #booksky #amwriting
#writingcommunity #literature #booksky #amwriting
Finished Good Omens last night. Amusing in a Douglas Adams sort of way. A bit cluttered.
How far we've come. The coauthors collaborated from great distances in 1990, sharing drafts via dial-up modem. LOL, said it was like "trying to yodel under water."
#WritingCommunity #booksky #humor #writing
How far we've come. The coauthors collaborated from great distances in 1990, sharing drafts via dial-up modem. LOL, said it was like "trying to yodel under water."
#WritingCommunity #booksky #humor #writing
August 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Finished Good Omens last night. Amusing in a Douglas Adams sort of way. A bit cluttered.
How far we've come. The coauthors collaborated from great distances in 1990, sharing drafts via dial-up modem. LOL, said it was like "trying to yodel under water."
#WritingCommunity #booksky #humor #writing
How far we've come. The coauthors collaborated from great distances in 1990, sharing drafts via dial-up modem. LOL, said it was like "trying to yodel under water."
#WritingCommunity #booksky #humor #writing
Re-re-rereading As I Lay Dying. Faulkner's description of the mule team as the Bundren family presses on despite the flood waters is brilliant, so good it gives me chills.
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Re-re-rereading As I Lay Dying. Faulkner's description of the mule team as the Bundren family presses on despite the flood waters is brilliant, so good it gives me chills.
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
Happy #TrumpTariff day. The duties, others say "regressive domestic taxes," announced last week, took effect for about 90 countries just after midnight. Graphic via NYT
August 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Happy #TrumpTariff day. The duties, others say "regressive domestic taxes," announced last week, took effect for about 90 countries just after midnight. Graphic via NYT
Here's a great #BigBeautifulBill graphic from NYT to help us remember its bottom-line impact on households using #CBO projections.
Current House bill LOWERS after-tax income to bottom 10% by 3.9%, RAISES after-tax income to top 10% by 2.3%.
Tell #Congress what you think of that.
Current House bill LOWERS after-tax income to bottom 10% by 3.9%, RAISES after-tax income to top 10% by 2.3%.
Tell #Congress what you think of that.
June 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here's a great #BigBeautifulBill graphic from NYT to help us remember its bottom-line impact on households using #CBO projections.
Current House bill LOWERS after-tax income to bottom 10% by 3.9%, RAISES after-tax income to top 10% by 2.3%.
Tell #Congress what you think of that.
Current House bill LOWERS after-tax income to bottom 10% by 3.9%, RAISES after-tax income to top 10% by 2.3%.
Tell #Congress what you think of that.