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Rose Vines
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I write about human rights and human rites.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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A poem for the times.
The Time of the Wasps Now is not the time for your usual life. Within our hive the wasps have already launched their swift assault, overwhelming our guards, killing the workers, turning their avid eyes on our pooled, collective honey. They come for our eggs, too. We have expected the assault— they are wasps, after all— but not the shape of that assault, and that could well be our undoing if we pretend that now is the time for our usual life. Now is the time to shower love on those who wield the pen; the poets, the comics, the resolute reporters, yes, but also on those who build palisades and pitfalls from statutes and precedents, who slow the charge of the lawless now empowered. Now is not the time for your usual life. Use normality as a ruse, silence as a shield, but not as a path. Hold close your joy and love and frolicsomeness— the you that longs for your usual life— while in safe places you share rumblings and connections and lay smart plans to make a swarming cacophony in unsafe spaces. Now is the time of the wasps who bring their billions to crush our millions. But they are few.
February 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 10
Cover of The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 9
Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
December 5, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 8
The cover of Evening in the Palace of Reason - Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Reason.
December 4, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 7
Cover of Kay Thompson’s book, Elouise.
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6
Book cover of Radclyffe Hall’s The Unlit Lamp
November 30, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5
The cover of ROOM by Emma Donoghue. White cover with ROOM spelt in colourful capitals as if a child’s painting.
November 29, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 4
Book cover of Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Carches You and You Fall Down. Cream cover with small photo inset of a Hmong child in traditional costume.
November 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 3
Symphony for the City of the Dead book cover. Sub-titles is "Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad". By M.T. Anderson. A man in coat and cap walks among ice blue, bombed out buildings. A flight of warplanes flies overhead through a blood-red sky.
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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View over water lit red by sunset through the smoke of a distant large fire. Rocky outcrops in the front, with one that looks somewhat like a lion.
November 26, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 2
Book cover of My Place by Sally Morgan, depicting a life journey in dot arts.
November 26, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 1
Angus the Tartan Partan - The Story of a Crab, book cover.
November 26, 2024 at 3:03 AM