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Joy K.
@joyousk.bsky.social
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Retired teacher. Nature nerd. Wildlife rehab volunteer. Atheist. Wikipedia editor for over 20 years. Rainy-day enthusiast, living my best life on Washington's Pacific Coast.
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From the novel "The Music of Bees," by Eileen Garvin
#SundaySentence
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On a background image of shattered glass, the quote says "As long as she made it to the county planning department by 8:30 a.m. five days a week, no one had to know that Alice Holtzman was made of a million tiny broken pieces held together by cookies, solitary driving, and the sheer determination not to go crazy in public."
August 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Well damn. Just finished Alan Sepinwall's excellent book, and now I suppose I must re-watch the entire "Better Call Saul" series.

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Front cover of the book "Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The complete critical companion to Better Call Saul" by Alan Sepinwall
July 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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First red huckleberry of the season
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath.

from "Lucky" by Will Leitch
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We can’t agree on anything in this world, we can’t even sit with each other long enough to decide whether we want to agree on anything, but of all things, it’s football, this awful game that destroys the brains of college students without even paying them a dime for the privilege, this last refuge of the helplessly meat-headed, it’s football that brings us together, goddammit, and we can assemble and wear red and bark at each other and push all the awful shit down to a place it won’t return until Tuesday at the latest, and we do it seven times a year and that’s seven times a year when we don’t have to live with the rest of it and I gotta tell you, that ain’t nothing.
May 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Ellen Crimi-Trent provided the tutorial for this. I have learned to paint a dragonfly. Be very afraid.

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Watercolor painting of a dragonfly among green foliage.
May 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach OR

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Watercolor painting of Haystack Rock at sunset
April 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I believe I have found my newest all-purpose insult.
A two-comment thread. First comment says "Tariffs will finally bring some prices down hopefully, like the iPhone. And Samsung phone $1000 to $$1200 is ridiculous. Reply says "Apologies for the very personal question, but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?"
April 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Cheating a little. I have used this #SundaySentence from Naomi Nomik before, at the Other Place, but I just re-read the book and it struck me again, ringing like a solemn bell.

"Uprooted" by #@naominovik.bsky.social
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A dirt road winding through a green grassy field towards some trees in the far distance. The quote says “All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.” It is from Naomi Novik's book "Uprooted."
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I leveled up with an assist from a Mallory Jane video about using sponges to paint tree foliage.

#watercolor
Watercolor from a practice sketchbook with two trees, one with green leaves and one with reddish leaves.
March 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.”

Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek

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An orange flower, two petals missing.
March 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Meme says "Every time you spend one hundred dollars on some dumb shit Franklin just be looking at you like." With Ben Franklin's face from the U.S. hundred dollar bill. His lips are pursed. He's making eye contact with you. His expression is that of a dad whose son just spent all of his allowance on a bottle of sea monkeys from an ad in a comic book.
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Soft mist leaves glittering drops everywhere
A small drop of water hangs at the end of a hemlock needle
March 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Red alder catkins are carpeting the ground.
A thin catkin in shades of green and red rests on an evergreen frond
March 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Working on trees.
#Watercolor
A watercolor painting of a tree with lush green leaves.
March 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"I’d watch the bats and the birds dip into the river to drink like they were stitching the water to the sky in lacy, swooping, baroque arcs."

Neko Case
“The Harder I Fight The More I Love You”

#SundaySentence
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The cover of Neko Case's memoir
March 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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First thimbleberry blossom of the season.
A dark pink flower bud, petals still crumpled before blooming
March 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"I was sixteen years old, a skinny, feral, lonely kid who had grown up longing for normal food, biting the heads off fleas, and never brushing my hair."

Neko Case
"The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir"

#SundaySentence
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The cover of Neko Case's book "The Harder I Fight The More I Love You"
March 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"How could Duncan not realize that every time you fell in love and it didn’t work out, it scraped out a little piece of you, like scooping out a piece of cantaloupe with a melon baller, and there were only so many times that could happen before the scoop marks started to show?"

#SundaySentence
Book cover for "Early Morning Riser" by Katherine Heiny
March 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

Annie Dillard
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

#SundaySentence
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Book cover for "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard
February 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"Well, the important thing with men is to find one that won’t kill you."

Chelsea Bieker
“Madwoman”

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Front cover of "Madwoman" by Chelsea Bieker
February 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”

Sarah Beth Durst @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social
"The Spellshop"

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Cover of Sarah Beth Durst's book "The Spell Shop."
February 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Friend: snow in the forecast!!
Me: maybe but it’ll be too warm to stick.
About four inches of snow, sticking to a yard and a lot of evergreen trees
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Taking urgent action: teakettle has been activated.
weather advisory about incoming snow. Circled portion says "Urgency: Take action within next hour"
February 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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When someone on Columbo struck an interesting pose, I paused and stick-figured them.
A sketchbook page filled with stick figures in varying poses, and drawn with varying degrees of skill, skewing toward "not particularly skilled yet"
February 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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"The strange thing, the awkward thing, was what to do with a single woman who was not there to be beautiful or to entertain."

Liz Moore @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social
"The God of the Woods"

#SundaySentence
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Cover of Liz Moore's book "The God of the Woods"
February 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM