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John Stepper
@johnstepper.bsky.social
Founder of workingoutloud.com. Current project: "The Best of Men", a not-for-profit program where men explore questions of identity and purpose while cultivating connections and self-efficacy.
At film forum in NYC…
May 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The wisdom of tea: “The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.”
May 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Building Empathy in a Fractured World”. Seems like a good time to read this….
April 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thich Nhat Hanh Way in upper Manhattan. 😎 🙏
April 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You know your kids are in a good school when a senior administrator walks around offering you “pocket poems.”

I picked two good ones. 🤓 🥰
April 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I ❤️ my local NY public library (100th St between Columbus & Amsterdam). Wonderful service. Super clean and warm. Stewarded by caring and kind staff here. 🤓 📚 🥰
April 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I mention I missed someone today and was sent this Sesame Street video with Andrew Garfield. How lovely. 🥲

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Andrew Garfield and Elmo Explain Grief | Sesame Workshop
YouTube video by Sesame Workshop
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March 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
With so many posts about libraries in my feed I thought I would share the latest book I borrowed…about a library.

“What you are looking for is in the library” So true… 📚 🇯🇵🤓.
March 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
TIL that “sitting in the catbird seat” has nothing to do with a cat. (I used the expression with my daughter, who looked at me like I’m a living anachronism, and realized I didn’t know where the expression came from.)

What other wondrous surprises await me? 🤓

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird...
Catbird seat - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of the first Gmail ads I might be interested in. Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦 👏 🥰
March 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reposted by John Stepper
'Spring has returned: the Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart'

— Rainer Maria Rilke
March 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Cultural differences summed up as we pack snacks for the plane ✈️

PBJ for me. 🥜 🇺🇸
Rice balls for my wife. 🍙 🇯🇵

🥰
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.
March 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
On 🎯.
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Bless the good people who put dinosaur tracks in wet cement on 95th Street, leading from their front door. 🥰 🦖

Makes me smile every time I walk by. 😊
March 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“‘Cathy, I’m lost,’ I said, though I knew she was sleeping. ‘I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.’”

This lyric is 57 years old, and yet it captures the poignant despair of so many men today.

HT @forgottenpoets.bsky.social for attuning me to poetry in life. 🙏

music.apple.com/us/album/ame...
America by Simon & Garfunkel on Apple Music
Song · 1968 · Duration 3:35
music.apple.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
😊 👞 👠 🙏
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From 'A Maze Me: Poems For Girls' (2005)
—Naomi Shihab Nye

#poetry #poem #poems
March 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Love, euphoria, and tragedy all in six lines.
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"You glow in my heart like the flames of uncounted candles..."
—Amy Lowell (1914)

#poetry #poems #poem
February 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just started this and it’s fantastic. Insightful, useful, and very funny.
February 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Chilling. I’ve heard this from friends who work in universities, NGOs, and non-profits.
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by John Stepper
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🖤🖤🖤
February 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Nikita Gill.
February 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We may succeed (by some measures) on our own, but “all flourishing is mutual.”

HT to the NY Public Library for this book. A nice weekend read. 🤓
February 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This I love. And resemble more each day.
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM