GraceAnne LadyHawke
@girasoleazzurra.bsky.social
Feminist. Flower child. ItalianAmerican. Over 75. Books. Tea. Stories. Family. Music. Baseball.
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. -Mary Oliver
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. -Mary Oliver
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. -Mary Oliver
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. -Mary Oliver
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In case you didn't know...
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In case you didn't know...
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
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A lovely review of SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD Book 1 by @dvaleris.bsky.social for @crimehq.bsky.social. Check it out!
www.criminalelement.com/book-review-...
www.criminalelement.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD: The Thin Blue Ley-Line by Keith R. A. DeCandido
The Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD: The Thin Blue Ley-Line by Keith R. A. DeCandido is a paranormal procedural with magic & monsters in NYC.
www.criminalelement.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A lovely review of SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD Book 1 by @dvaleris.bsky.social for @crimehq.bsky.social. Check it out!
www.criminalelement.com/book-review-...
www.criminalelement.com/book-review-...
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
this is so very lovely.
SIR IAN AND DAME JUDI AT SAM’S MACBETH PLAY OH MY GOD🥹😭
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
this is so very lovely.
Between October and January, there are at least a dozen celebrations of love and thanksgiving, the light and the dark, from many faiths and none. I say "Happy Holidays" or "Joyous Yule" or "Blessed Solstice" or my favorite, "Merry Holly." 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Between October and January, there are at least a dozen celebrations of love and thanksgiving, the light and the dark, from many faiths and none. I say "Happy Holidays" or "Joyous Yule" or "Blessed Solstice" or my favorite, "Merry Holly." 1/2
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Recommended, if you can access The Atlantic. This gift link should work.
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Recommended, if you can access The Atlantic. This gift link should work.
both lovely and brilliant.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
both lovely and brilliant.
Yes.
This also affirms my conviction that women (under patriarchy) are always either too much or not enough, and sometimes because we are so tricky both at once.
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Yes.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...
Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...
All saints' day. All souls day. Bruce Springsteen, in conversation with Barack Obama: "The trick is you have to turn your ghosts into ancestors. Ghosts haunt you. Ancestors walk alongside you and provide you with comfort and a vision of life that’s going to be your own."
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
All saints' day. All souls day. Bruce Springsteen, in conversation with Barack Obama: "The trick is you have to turn your ghosts into ancestors. Ghosts haunt you. Ancestors walk alongside you and provide you with comfort and a vision of life that’s going to be your own."
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On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.
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What's The Big Idea? Well, it's a wonderful feature on @scalzi.com's "Whatever" blog that lets writers talk about their work. And today's Big Idea is me talking about my new book SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD Book 1: THE THIN BLUE LEY-LINE!
Check it out!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/28/t...
Check it out!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/28/t...
The Big Idea: Keith R.A. DeCandido
As if solving crimes wasn’t a hard enough job, you throw mystic and magical mayhem into the mix and you’ve got a whole new world of trouble. Enter the Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD, au…
whatever.scalzi.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What's The Big Idea? Well, it's a wonderful feature on @scalzi.com's "Whatever" blog that lets writers talk about their work. And today's Big Idea is me talking about my new book SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD Book 1: THE THIN BLUE LEY-LINE!
Check it out!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/28/t...
Check it out!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/28/t...
The Guardian's review of Sam Heughan's Macbeth. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
Macbeth review – a terrifying lock-in with bloodied, boozed-up gangsters
Daniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Guardian's review of Sam Heughan's Macbeth. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
the only wisdom I have at the moment comes from others. This does.
Please believe me when I tell you:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
the only wisdom I have at the moment comes from others. This does.
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Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
October 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.
My son's book!
GOOD NEWS! You can get an exclusive autographed copy of SUPERNATURAL CRIMES UNIT: NYPD at @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social from the @blackstonepub.bsky.social booth (3544) autographed by me!
BAD NEWS! I won't be there to personalize it, as dojo stuff is keeping me away from NYCC this year, alas.
BAD NEWS! I won't be there to personalize it, as dojo stuff is keeping me away from NYCC this year, alas.
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My son's book!
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A statement from Tylenol
September 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A statement from Tylenol
this is true❤️
Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
September 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is true❤️
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
A small patch of sweet growing things by my front gate
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A small patch of sweet growing things by my front gate
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For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophye, ethics, and the studye of historye and literature and language. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will onlye make bettir tooles for makinge olde injustices happen faster.
September 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophye, ethics, and the studye of historye and literature and language. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will onlye make bettir tooles for makinge olde injustices happen faster.
my son's article about his upcoming book. I love this because it's a lot about how he grew up. www.mysterycenter.com/2025/09/05/g...
Getting Fantasy Chocolate in the Mystery Peanut Butter -
by Keith R.A. DeCandido One of the things I love about the speculative fiction genre that encompasses both fantasy and science fiction is that it’s so flexible. That’s because it’s the only subgenre t...
www.mysterycenter.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
my son's article about his upcoming book. I love this because it's a lot about how he grew up. www.mysterycenter.com/2025/09/05/g...