💙 Mark The Grey 💙
@markthegray.bsky.social
Microbiologist - Author - Poet - Public Health Nerd - Medical Writer - Bring Me Microbes, Moss, Misunderstood Creatures - Science Still Matters
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Trimming the Tree
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Trimming the Tree
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
Growth in permanent supportive housing for the unhoused in Aurora, IL.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Growth in permanent supportive housing for the unhoused in Aurora, IL.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
November brings change to the
beech-maple forest.
beech-maple forest.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
November brings change to the
beech-maple forest.
beech-maple forest.
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Resolution
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Resolution
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
#september
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#september
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap."
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.
www.theatlantic.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap."
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Postcard from the Cusp: Summer
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
August 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Postcard from the Cusp: Summer
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
August 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
August 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
August 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
February 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
This one found cool shade and ambush for insects moving around a wood pallet. The soil under these rocks is moist and she can absorb water through abdominal skin. Happy toad.
#toad
#northwoods
#toad
#northwoods
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This one found cool shade and ambush for insects moving around a wood pallet. The soil under these rocks is moist and she can absorb water through abdominal skin. Happy toad.
#toad
#northwoods
#toad
#northwoods
