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Disabled and retired PT. I work now in low-income housing. I read nonstop off the job, except when the dog needs belly rubs. // I won't reply to DMs unless we have been chatting in the public feed.
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Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Serendipity -- luck in finding valuable or pleasant things unlooked for
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Serendipity -- luck in finding valuable or pleasant things unlooked for
📚💙 323/365 Poems -- Female Rain by Laura Tohe poets.org/poem/female-...
Female Rain
Female Rain Dancing from the south cloudy cool and gray pregnant with rainchild At dawn she gives birth to a gentle mist flowers bow with wet sustenance luminescence all around
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📚💙 323/365 Poems -- Female Rain by Laura Tohe poets.org/poem/female-...
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1/ Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
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This is Mack. In his head he absolutely crushed this agility course. Who are we to tell him otherwise. 14/10 (TT: adventuresof.mack)
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is Mack. In his head he absolutely crushed this agility course. Who are we to tell him otherwise. 14/10 (TT: adventuresof.mack)
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day - Eccentric -- tending to act in strange or unusual ways
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day - Eccentric -- tending to act in strange or unusual ways
📚💙 322/365 Poems -- When I am dead, my dearest by Christina Rossetti www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45003/...
When I am dead, my dearest
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, reme...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📚💙 322/365 Poems -- When I am dead, my dearest by Christina Rossetti www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45003/...
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1/ Ida Gertrude Carroll OBE (1 December 1905 – 9 September 1995) was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer. #WomanToday
After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the Northern School of Music's secretary.
After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the Northern School of Music's secretary.
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Ida Gertrude Carroll OBE (1 December 1905 – 9 September 1995) was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer. #WomanToday
After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the Northern School of Music's secretary.
After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the Northern School of Music's secretary.
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Crucible -- a difficult test or challenge.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Crucible -- a difficult test or challenge.
📚💙 321/365 Poems -- Prayer for Winter by Romie Stott www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
Prayer for Winter - Uncanny Magazine
It is cold, and I am a small animal compared to the heavy sky. Food to heat my blood is not plentiful. My friends are lean and sleepy. There is so much I am afraid of: that a stumble could lay a chi...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📚💙 321/365 Poems -- Prayer for Winter by Romie Stott www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Writhe -- to twist one's body from side to side.
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Writhe -- to twist one's body from side to side.
📚💙 320/365 Poems -- Sonnet 59 by Shakespeare www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/59.h...
Shakespeare Sonnet 59 - If there be nothing new, but that which is
The text of Shakespeare's sonnet 59. The poet shifts his thoughts from his problems with love to the circle of life.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📚💙 320/365 Poems -- Sonnet 59 by Shakespeare www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/59.h...
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1/ Hilda Crosby Standish (1902 – June 1, 2005) was a pioneer in the birth control movement in the state of Connecticut.
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Hilda Crosby Standish (1902 – June 1, 2005) was a pioneer in the birth control movement in the state of Connecticut.
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This is Rudy. He carried out the perfect heist by remembering the four S's: sleep, sneak, steal, skedaddle. 14/10 (TT: rudyrudyroo)
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is Rudy. He carried out the perfect heist by remembering the four S's: sleep, sneak, steal, skedaddle. 14/10 (TT: rudyrudyroo)
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Radial -- arranged in straight lines from the center of a circle.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day: Radial -- arranged in straight lines from the center of a circle.
📚💙 319/365 Poems -- rain poem by Manny Loley www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
rain poem
rain passed through just now rain chxósh chxósh chxósh chxósh rain rained now rainbow stretches water trickles mountain shines in rainlight Translated from the Diné by t...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📚💙 319/365 Poems -- rain poem by Manny Loley www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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1/ Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, ruling from 1740 until her death in 1780. #WomanToday
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, ruling from 1740 until her death in 1780. #WomanToday
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day -- Heyday --a time of greatest popularity, vigor, or success
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com Word of the Day -- Heyday --a time of greatest popularity, vigor, or success
📚💙 318/365 Poems -- Correspondences by Richard Magahiz magazine.trollbreath.com/corresponden...
Correspondences - Trollbreath Magazine
Correspondences
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November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📚💙 318/365 Poems -- Correspondences by Richard Magahiz magazine.trollbreath.com/corresponden...
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1/ Opha May Johnson (née Jacob, May 4, 1878 – August 11, 1955) was an American Marine reservist who was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. #WomanToday
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Opha May Johnson (née Jacob, May 4, 1878 – August 11, 1955) was an American Marine reservist who was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. #WomanToday
Posting for @merriam-webster.com - Word of the day: Peremptory -- showing an offensive attitude of superiority
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com - Word of the day: Peremptory -- showing an offensive attitude of superiority
📚💙 317/365 Poems -- Untitled haiku
fortune teller...
the lights of a distant train
shimmer on the rails
by Chase Gagnon
fortune teller...
the lights of a distant train
shimmer on the rails
by Chase Gagnon
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📚💙 317/365 Poems -- Untitled haiku
fortune teller...
the lights of a distant train
shimmer on the rails
by Chase Gagnon
fortune teller...
the lights of a distant train
shimmer on the rails
by Chase Gagnon
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1/ Lilian Bader (née Bailey; 18 February 1918 – 14 March 2015) was one of the first mixed-race women to join the British armed forces. #WomanToday
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Lilian Bader (née Bailey; 18 February 1918 – 14 March 2015) was one of the first mixed-race women to join the British armed forces. #WomanToday
Posting for @merriam-webster.com -- Word of the day: Abide - to accept or tolerate someone or something disagreeable.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Posting for @merriam-webster.com -- Word of the day: Abide - to accept or tolerate someone or something disagreeable.
📚💙 316/365 Poems -- Their Lonely Betters by W.H. Auden emilyspoetryblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/t...
‘Their Lonely Betters’ by W.H. Auden
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin with no Christian n…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📚💙 316/365 Poems -- Their Lonely Betters by W.H. Auden emilyspoetryblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/t...