It’s called a sunrise. My city is not burning.

Exodus 8:2-6
King James Version
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

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Source is substack from Diana Bass Butler, which also says pic is from PDX visitor’s own video.

Buds! Don’t know what the rest of the world will look like, but the red camellia in our courtyard should start blooming in a few weeks, right on schedule.

This memoir is for anyone who enjoys books about writing & careers in writing, & for fans of Orelan’s books and columns. Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social & #simonandschuster for the #joyride eARC in exchange for an objective review.

Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant: Fascinating stories about USPS and its people who deliver the mail, told by a laid off consultant who took the only job he could find at the start of Covid as a rural mail carrier. Received ARC from @netgalley.bsky.social #booksky#mailman

Made good trouble on the street corner yesterday

About 30 of us showed up at the corner, walkers, wheelchairs, and post leaners

A little beauty for your day

January Books: 10 fiction
4 nonfiction;
Recommended:
The Notebook
The Comfort of Crows
Playground
The Reckless Oath We Made
Once Upon a Wardrobe
When Women Were Wolves
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
How to Keep House While Drowning - got pointers!
Others - could’ve spent reading time better.

5 stars, it’s that good! An enjoyable read for anyone who enjoys books about the craft of writing, list making, journaling, doodling, sketching, working math problems on paper, and the like. One chapter describes how ships’ notebooks back to the 1800s gave data used to show global warming.

Invited to family & friends tour of renovated North Portland branch library last night. Met new Multnomah County Library Director and a few other folks, played on machine that checks in & sorts returns.

A book for such as time a this! Timeline of women who dragon largely follows the rise of feminism in the U.S, and moves through to what until this week was progress made in civil rights. Women who dragon find their power & heal the world. An element of romantacy, but that’s not the story.

Thanks to another friend for sharing this

The backdrop is what we Portlanders call The Big One. It’s about a very pregnant woman who is shopping at IKEA when the Big One hits. The story is told in a single day as she struggles to walk miles to get to her husband and her home. Compelling, emotional, dark, funny. ARC from Netgalley.