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Kathleen Sandusky
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Canuck 🇨🇦transplant in Pittsburgh. #SciComm, #HigherEd, subversive craftiness, mackerel tabbies. Always learning.
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Thank you Poetry Foundation for sharing this gorgeous “Poem of the Day” by Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi. I needed it. I highly recommend subscribing to this e-list for a daily balm against news horrors.

“Thanks to the clouds on fire, the burning sunset,
And every diminishing as beautiful as time.”
Gratification to the survivors of daily damnations (end of title) Thanks to the clouds on fire, the burning sunset, and every diminishing as beautiful as time. Thanks to the moments that are not yours, the soft part of the world you are in when you tiptoe to your mother’s room, the unending seconds until you hear her snore because the lost lyrics of the living will always escape through the mouth. Thanks to the quietness she drew from the well of nights and bottled for you by dawn—for the lilacs, the roses, and the thorns blooming in your mouth. We pocket the heart until we know what to do with it. Nature introduces spring to us like visitors. Living and leaving, we multitask at our best. When you get home, stare around like it’s another man’s. Like this can be here, like that can be beautiful. Cigar this life and light it with the sun. Breathe this poem in. Own a spot on a cliff or an edge or somewhere that can carry a stamp of your body. Become. Open a book and see this trapped time I left for you to live all over.
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Our daycare workers had a twisted sense of humor. This is the craft my kid came home with at ~3yo. Took me several years to get over the working mom guilt and not feel a lump in my throat looking at it but now it gets a place of honor on the tree every year. My kid thinks it’s hilarious.
Photo of a cutout paper ornament that reads “joy” with sparkle paint. In the middle of the “O” there is a photo of a toddler crying.
November 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Another social app, another cute cat photo….
Grey tabby cat sitting comfortably perched in a hammock attached to a cat gym.
August 14, 2023 at 12:44 AM