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Jonathan Everitt
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freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
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The colors have been spectacular this year. This Japanese maple "Seiryu" is the centerpiece of our garden. #ROC
Japanese maple showing off brilliant red fall color.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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In broad daylight. Incredible.
Ms. Halligan, an inexperienced former insurance lawyer who had no prosecutorial background before being thrust by Mr. Trump into her current role, was a lower-rung member of the Trump defense team in the case over whether he had mishandled classified documents after he left office.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Nov. 5, 1872: Susan B. Anthony defies law, casts vote for president
#ROC
Screen shot for the Associated Press showing photo of Susan B. Anthony.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Timeline cleanse: Ralphie went to the salon today and he's feeling very proud of himself. (Yes, he came home sporting a Halloween-themed bandana.)
Havanese dog with fresh white hair and a jaunty bandana.
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Ever watched Cabaret?
A blond German boy from the film "Cabaret" in which he sings "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"
October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Ralphie approves.🐾
Havanese dog flopping upside down.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Ralphie is leaning into this chilly, gloomy Monday. Me too.
Havanese dog sleeping on plush blanket on a rainy day.
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Clearsky app showing 428,000 users have blocked White House in Bluesky through block lists.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"The Storm" by Mary Oliver.
I always think of this little gem as we head into colder weather. First frost on the way tonight. I'm leaning into it.🤍
The Storm A poem by Mary Oliver Now through the white orchard my little dog romps, breaking the new snow with wild feet. Running here running there, excited, hardly able to stop, he leaps, he spins until the white snow is written upon in large, exuberant letters, a long sentence, expressing the pleasures of the body in this world. Oh, I could not have said it better myself.
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Early autumn at Kent Park.🍂
#ROC
The pond at Kent Park surrounded by trees and blue skies, Webster, NY.
September 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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So sorry, Malachy. Wishing you comfort and peace as you grieve.
Separation By W. S. Merwin Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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"Incantation of the First Order" by Rita Dove. This poem resonates. 🖤
Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby. No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars will diminish the fear or save you from waking into the same day you dreamed of leaving— mockingbird on back order, morning bells stuck on snooze—so you might as well get up and at it, pestilence be damned. Peril and risk having become relative, I’ll try to couch this in positive terms: Never! is the word of last resorts, Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry. To those inclined toward kindness, I say Come out of your houses drumming. All others, beware: I have discarded my smile but not my teeth.
September 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Yeah, I was just reading up on it a couple days ago.
Chris Armitage writes: Spain might be the worst because everyone saw it coming. Three years of escalating fascist violence. Actual assassination attempts. Then in 1936, Franco and his generals launch a straight-up military coup. The Spanish Republic begged for help. France said "not our problem." Britain said "both sides are bad." America declared neutrality. The result? Franco ruled for 39 years. He died peacefully in his bed in 1975. They're still finding mass graves in Spain. Still. In 2025.
August 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Today is 10/10 outdoors. A few snapshots of late summer at the Webster Arboretum at Kent Park. (In which Ralphie makes an appearance.)
#ROC 📸
The pond fountain at the Webster Arboretum. Evergreens and boulders on a hill at the Webster Arboretum. Ralphie, small white dog, looking through tree canopy at the Webster Arboretum. The end of a shady path of evergreens at the Webster Arboretum.
August 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This is the photo of Ralphie that Pixel refused to save my edits to. So, I downloaded free version of LightRoom (Adobe) and I'm liking it!
Sleepy havanese.
August 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Man, the vibe shift from 1973 to 1982 says a LOT.
Lunch boxes from 1973 with birds and 1982 with McDonald's.
August 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Leftover Prompt Inputs Shockingly, some students have been so sloppy with their cheating that they’ve actually left prompt inputs from their interactions with a chatbot in the final essay that they turned in, Massaro says.
July 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Currently reading. A friend gave me this one recently. Side-by-side French and English. It's a treasure.
July 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Daylily "Grey Witch" is one of my all-time favorites, both for the unusual color and the name.
#gardening #ROC
Daylily with spider-form pedals in a grey-mauve with a purple watermark and chartreuse eye.
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Never gets old. Eastman Theater, one of Rochester's crown jewels and home of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. So many memories here. #ROC
July 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Daylily "Pastilline" rose-pink with a violet watermark and yellow eye. Daylily "Smoky Mountain Autumn" - apricot with golden highlights. Daylily "Lonesome Dove" - cream with a pale lavender watermark. Daylily "Wineberry Candy" - peach edges with a large violet-red center and yellow-green eye.
July 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Rediscovered classic geraniums this year and found a gorgeous new variety called "Calliope Dark Red." Velvety crimson, vigorous, and lush. Saving the tag for next year.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Flowers in our garden, June 2025. #ROC
Japanese iris, purple with splashes of white. Clematis "Warsaw Nike" violet-red bloom with pale yellow anthers. Campanula "Sarastro" violet-blue bell flowers. Japanese iris, white with sky-blue splashes.
June 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.🖤
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
June 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM