Pinned
I wrote a story about love shared through the generations of a family:
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December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Four Fifty Five
Wilf Perreault
2022
Wilf Perreault
2022
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Four Fifty Five
Wilf Perreault
2022
Wilf Perreault
2022
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"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
George Saunders on the Power of Kindness, Animated
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
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December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
I wonder who this little charmer is. I really have no idea, though I do see a family resemblance. All I know for sure is that this portrait was taken at a Lyceum Studio which operated between 1936 and 1949 at 290 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg and ...
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I wonder who this little charmer is. I really have no idea, though I do see a family resemblance. All I know for sure is that this portrait was taken at a Lyceum Studio which operated between 1936 and 1949 at 290 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg and ...
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For Advent:
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an advent gallimaufry
Loving: Does this happen to you? That you open a trunk or a drawer and are surprised to find something you’d forgotten about? In this case, a large length of indigo-dyed (darker than in the p…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
For Advent:
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Trinidad and Tobago Hockey
Kareem-Anthony Ferreira
2021
Kareem-Anthony Ferreira
2021
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Trinidad and Tobago Hockey
Kareem-Anthony Ferreira
2021
Kareem-Anthony Ferreira
2021
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"with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Thanks by W.S. Merwin from Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Thanks by W.S. Merwin from Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...
Thanks
Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and ...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Thanks by W.S. Merwin from Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Thanks by W.S. Merwin from Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...
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“Hate and anger never got too old to soil the world and wreak havoc.”
#SundaySentence from, Echo
by Tracy Clark.
#booksky
#tracyclark
#SundaySentence from, Echo
by Tracy Clark.
#booksky
#tracyclark
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Hate and anger never got too old to soil the world and wreak havoc.”
#SundaySentence from, Echo
by Tracy Clark.
#booksky
#tracyclark
#SundaySentence from, Echo
by Tracy Clark.
#booksky
#tracyclark
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Oh, my brother, we’re lighting the torches and heading out into the darkness to find the words and bring them back to you.
#sundaysentence
#lateinvocationformagic
#jimdaniels
#msupress
#netgalley
#sundaysentence
#lateinvocationformagic
#jimdaniels
#msupress
#netgalley
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Oh, my brother, we’re lighting the torches and heading out into the darkness to find the words and bring them back to you.
#sundaysentence
#lateinvocationformagic
#jimdaniels
#msupress
#netgalley
#sundaysentence
#lateinvocationformagic
#jimdaniels
#msupress
#netgalley
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My #SundaySentence this week comes from the incomparable Tom Stoppard, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My #SundaySentence this week comes from the incomparable Tom Stoppard, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
#SundaySentence (s)
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#SundaySentence (s)
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
I’ve had this photo for some time, but it’s only now that I know who this child is. Her mother, Minna Geissbuhler, was step-sister to my maternal grandmother, Emma Locher Ammeter. This little girl is Annie Minna Geissbuhler Huntington, born on December 20th, 1923 in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I’ve had this photo for some time, but it’s only now that I know who this child is. Her mother, Minna Geissbuhler, was step-sister to my maternal grandmother, Emma Locher Ammeter. This little girl is Annie Minna Geissbuhler Huntington, born on December 20th, 1923 in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
This morning I wrote about pots.
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
foundational
Yesterday I had a virtual visit to a class reading my novella, The Weight of the Heart. (Thank you, Richard Pickard!) In the course of the discussion, I found myself admitting that the 1970s had be…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
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"People take along things for camp in cart pulled by horses. Canvas tent, pillows, blankets, suitcase, rope, big box of groceries, stove made from old wash tub to keep the tent warm and for cooking. They would take bannock and a 22 rifle to shoot rabbits and prairie chickens. They found water in
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"People take along things for camp in cart pulled by horses. Canvas tent, pillows, blankets, suitcase, rope, big box of groceries, stove made from old wash tub to keep the tent warm and for cooking. They would take bannock and a 22 rifle to shoot rabbits and prairie chickens. They found water in
Another photo from the collection I inherited from the family farm, though I don’t know how this sweet child is connected to my family. The name Fritz Geissbuller is written in tidy script on the back. Olson - Darlington, Wis. is etched in block letters on the front.
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Another photo from the collection I inherited from the family farm, though I don’t know how this sweet child is connected to my family. The name Fritz Geissbuller is written in tidy script on the back. Olson - Darlington, Wis. is etched in block letters on the front.
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For bears and humans alike in this part of the world, this is a very welcome sight: a frozen Hudson Bay. Bon voyage, and bon appetit!
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For bears and humans alike in this part of the world, this is a very welcome sight: a frozen Hudson Bay. Bon voyage, and bon appetit!
In my third next life, I will be the sparrow who reminds you of the tiny gifts in this world.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In my third next life, I will be the sparrow who reminds you of the tiny gifts in this world.
I wonder what they were talking about.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I wonder what they were talking about.
Therapeutic Culture At The End of Life:
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Therapeutic Culture At The End of Life:
A More Honest Conversation About Final Requests
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November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Therapeutic Culture At The End of Life:
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
I’ve just started an embroidery project and plan to include this little piece of magic made by an auntie who left us many years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve just started an embroidery project and plan to include this little piece of magic made by an auntie who left us many years ago.
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Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic #Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City #art #TbilisiGeorgia #Georgia
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic #Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City #art #TbilisiGeorgia #Georgia
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
In my second next life, I'm going to be a carpenter and build homes of wood without using nails.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In my second next life, I'm going to be a carpenter and build homes of wood without using nails.