Paul
@pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social
Lawn as white as driven snow.
A WINTER’S TALE, 4.4
#ShakespeareSunday
Our beloved All Hallows High School (which closed in June after 115 years) and Joyce Kilmer Park.
📷: Bronx, February 2014
A WINTER’S TALE, 4.4
#ShakespeareSunday
Our beloved All Hallows High School (which closed in June after 115 years) and Joyce Kilmer Park.
📷: Bronx, February 2014
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Lawn as white as driven snow.
A WINTER’S TALE, 4.4
#ShakespeareSunday
Our beloved All Hallows High School (which closed in June after 115 years) and Joyce Kilmer Park.
📷: Bronx, February 2014
A WINTER’S TALE, 4.4
#ShakespeareSunday
Our beloved All Hallows High School (which closed in June after 115 years) and Joyce Kilmer Park.
📷: Bronx, February 2014
Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
And bear’t before him.
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 5.4
#bookwormsat
#ShakespeareSunday
#tistheseason
And bear’t before him.
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 5.4
#bookwormsat
#ShakespeareSunday
#tistheseason
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
And bear’t before him.
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 5.4
#bookwormsat
#ShakespeareSunday
#tistheseason
And bear’t before him.
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 5.4
#bookwormsat
#ShakespeareSunday
#tistheseason
DUKE SENIOR: And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Shakespeare, AS YOU LIKE IT, 2.1
#bookwormsat
📷 Cornell Womack as Duke Senior in “AS YOU LIKE IT, 2019 at The Old Globe, San Diego
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Shakespeare, AS YOU LIKE IT, 2.1
#bookwormsat
📷 Cornell Womack as Duke Senior in “AS YOU LIKE IT, 2019 at The Old Globe, San Diego
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
DUKE SENIOR: And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Shakespeare, AS YOU LIKE IT, 2.1
#bookwormsat
📷 Cornell Womack as Duke Senior in “AS YOU LIKE IT, 2019 at The Old Globe, San Diego
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Shakespeare, AS YOU LIKE IT, 2.1
#bookwormsat
📷 Cornell Womack as Duke Senior in “AS YOU LIKE IT, 2019 at The Old Globe, San Diego
PUCK: And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecat’s team
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic.
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
#DavidTennant
#BookWormSat
THEME: Faery
By the triple Hecat’s team
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic.
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
#DavidTennant
#BookWormSat
THEME: Faery
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
PUCK: And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecat’s team
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic.
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
#DavidTennant
#BookWormSat
THEME: Faery
By the triple Hecat’s team
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic.
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
#DavidTennant
#BookWormSat
THEME: Faery
TRINCULO:
Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool—
STEPHANO
There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss.
THE TEMPEST, 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Love & Loss
Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool—
STEPHANO
There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss.
THE TEMPEST, 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Love & Loss
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
TRINCULO:
Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool—
STEPHANO
There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss.
THE TEMPEST, 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Love & Loss
Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool—
STEPHANO
There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss.
THE TEMPEST, 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Love & Loss
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the matter; an old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were, but in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
MAAN, 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday
MAAN, 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday
November 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the matter; an old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were, but in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
MAAN, 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday
MAAN, 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod…
Shakespeare, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, 3.1
#bookwormsat
Death row inmate Claudio tells his sister of his fears of death.
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod…
Shakespeare, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, 3.1
#bookwormsat
Death row inmate Claudio tells his sister of his fears of death.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod…
Shakespeare, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, 3.1
#bookwormsat
Death row inmate Claudio tells his sister of his fears of death.
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod…
Shakespeare, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, 3.1
#bookwormsat
Death row inmate Claudio tells his sister of his fears of death.
Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me…
Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act. Husband, I come!…
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life.
Shakespeare, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, 5.2
#bookwormsat
Cleopatra’s final speech.
Immortal longings in me…
Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act. Husband, I come!…
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life.
Shakespeare, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, 5.2
#bookwormsat
Cleopatra’s final speech.
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me…
Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act. Husband, I come!…
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life.
Shakespeare, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, 5.2
#bookwormsat
Cleopatra’s final speech.
Immortal longings in me…
Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act. Husband, I come!…
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life.
Shakespeare, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, 5.2
#bookwormsat
Cleopatra’s final speech.
HAMLET
Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat
Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat
October 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
HAMLET
Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat
Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
HERMIONE (the mom)
Tell ’s a tale.
MAMILLUS (the little son)
Merry, or sad, shall’t be?
HERMIONE
As merry as you will.
MAMILLUS
A sad tale’s best for winter.
Shakespeare, THE WINTER’S TALE, 2.1
#BookWormSat
Tell ’s a tale.
MAMILLUS (the little son)
Merry, or sad, shall’t be?
HERMIONE
As merry as you will.
MAMILLUS
A sad tale’s best for winter.
Shakespeare, THE WINTER’S TALE, 2.1
#BookWormSat
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
HERMIONE (the mom)
Tell ’s a tale.
MAMILLUS (the little son)
Merry, or sad, shall’t be?
HERMIONE
As merry as you will.
MAMILLUS
A sad tale’s best for winter.
Shakespeare, THE WINTER’S TALE, 2.1
#BookWormSat
Tell ’s a tale.
MAMILLUS (the little son)
Merry, or sad, shall’t be?
HERMIONE
As merry as you will.
MAMILLUS
A sad tale’s best for winter.
Shakespeare, THE WINTER’S TALE, 2.1
#BookWormSat
KING RICHARD:
Lions make leopards tame.
THOMAS MOWBRAY:
Yea, but not change his spots.
RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Lions make leopards tame.
THOMAS MOWBRAY:
Yea, but not change his spots.
RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
KING RICHARD:
Lions make leopards tame.
THOMAS MOWBRAY:
Yea, but not change his spots.
RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Lions make leopards tame.
THOMAS MOWBRAY:
Yea, but not change his spots.
RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.
Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…
Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
#BookWormSat
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.
Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…
Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
#BookWormSat
October 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.
Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…
Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
#BookWormSat
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.
Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…
Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
#BookWormSat
Ay, in the catalog ye go for men,
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clipt
All by the name of “dogs”; the valued file*
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The house-keeper, the hunter…
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.1
#BookWormSat
*phylum
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clipt
All by the name of “dogs”; the valued file*
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The house-keeper, the hunter…
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.1
#BookWormSat
*phylum
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Ay, in the catalog ye go for men,
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clipt
All by the name of “dogs”; the valued file*
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The house-keeper, the hunter…
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.1
#BookWormSat
*phylum
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clipt
All by the name of “dogs”; the valued file*
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The house-keeper, the hunter…
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.1
#BookWormSat
*phylum
Our infection will make the city shake, which partly comes through the eating of parsnips.
True; and pumpkins together.
SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
It may be a fart joke…
True; and pumpkins together.
SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
It may be a fart joke…
September 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our infection will make the city shake, which partly comes through the eating of parsnips.
True; and pumpkins together.
SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
It may be a fart joke…
True; and pumpkins together.
SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
It may be a fart joke…
“His lady and her train are coming hither.”
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 3.2
#BookWormSat
#QueenElizabethII
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 3.2
#BookWormSat
#QueenElizabethII
September 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“His lady and her train are coming hither.”
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 3.2
#BookWormSat
#QueenElizabethII
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 3.2
#BookWormSat
#QueenElizabethII
Queen Mab… is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel …the fairies’ coach-makers.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 1.4
#BookWormSat #Mabh
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel …the fairies’ coach-makers.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 1.4
#BookWormSat #Mabh
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Queen Mab… is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel …the fairies’ coach-makers.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 1.4
#BookWormSat #Mabh
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel …the fairies’ coach-makers.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 1.4
#BookWormSat #Mabh
TIE STORY 6: I was teaching about the two Genesis stories of the Creation of the Universe so I chose this @metmuseum tie with its sparks, explosions, and swirls. I hope you created something cool today! #tiestory #paulsties
September 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
TIE STORY 6: I was teaching about the two Genesis stories of the Creation of the Universe so I chose this @metmuseum tie with its sparks, explosions, and swirls. I hope you created something cool today! #tiestory #paulsties
Rest in Music, composer (and one of #BuddyHolly’s #Crickets), Sonny Curtis. He’s probably known best for this piece of music, the theme for THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970-1977)!
#MaryTylerMooreShow #TVTheme #SonnyCurtis
#MaryTylerMooreShow #TVTheme #SonnyCurtis
September 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Rest in Music, composer (and one of #BuddyHolly’s #Crickets), Sonny Curtis. He’s probably known best for this piece of music, the theme for THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970-1977)!
#MaryTylerMooreShow #TVTheme #SonnyCurtis
#MaryTylerMooreShow #TVTheme #SonnyCurtis
By my troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
CofE, 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Quiet & Loud
📷: My first Sports Rally at my new school.
CofE, 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Quiet & Loud
📷: My first Sports Rally at my new school.
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
By my troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
CofE, 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Quiet & Loud
📷: My first Sports Rally at my new school.
CofE, 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Quiet & Loud
📷: My first Sports Rally at my new school.
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,
Take honor from me, and my life is done.
Mowbray, RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
@jamespurefoy.bsky.social #hollowcrown
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,
Take honor from me, and my life is done.
Mowbray, RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
@jamespurefoy.bsky.social #hollowcrown
September 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,
Take honor from me, and my life is done.
Mowbray, RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
@jamespurefoy.bsky.social #hollowcrown
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,
Take honor from me, and my life is done.
Mowbray, RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
@jamespurefoy.bsky.social #hollowcrown
She never told her love,
But let concealment like a worm i’ th’ bud
Feed on her damask cheek; she pin’d in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sate like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Viola, TWELFTH NIGHT, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
But let concealment like a worm i’ th’ bud
Feed on her damask cheek; she pin’d in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sate like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Viola, TWELFTH NIGHT, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
She never told her love,
But let concealment like a worm i’ th’ bud
Feed on her damask cheek; she pin’d in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sate like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Viola, TWELFTH NIGHT, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
But let concealment like a worm i’ th’ bud
Feed on her damask cheek; she pin’d in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sate like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Viola, TWELFTH NIGHT, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday
EDMUND: O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
EDGAR: How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
KING LEAR, 1.2
Enjoy your eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere!
#LunarEclipse
#ShakespeareSunday
EDGAR: How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
KING LEAR, 1.2
Enjoy your eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere!
#LunarEclipse
#ShakespeareSunday
September 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
EDMUND: O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
EDGAR: How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
KING LEAR, 1.2
Enjoy your eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere!
#LunarEclipse
#ShakespeareSunday
EDGAR: How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
KING LEAR, 1.2
Enjoy your eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere!
#LunarEclipse
#ShakespeareSunday
WWI Memorial Window in the Soldiers’ Tower at University of Toronto’s St. George Campus
#StainedGlassSunday
📷: 2013
#StainedGlassSunday
📷: 2013
September 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
WWI Memorial Window in the Soldiers’ Tower at University of Toronto’s St. George Campus
#StainedGlassSunday
📷: 2013
#StainedGlassSunday
📷: 2013