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Catie Cohen
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Humanist. 🧠 | Educator. 🍎 | Reader. 📚

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." - Vonnegut
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Always relevant. #musksucks
Meme. Black text on white background. User @AnaSamways: What's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich? User @konylishious: day drinking, speaking two languages, hard drugs, tax avoidance.
March 12, 2025 at 2:45 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. (11/20)

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Cover of Kelly Barnhill's The Crane Husband. Black cover with profile view of a person seemingly wearing a mask of multi-colored feathers.
March 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Yikes. When the depression monster shows up, motivation to stick to things curls up and hides.

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. (10/20)

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Book cover. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.
February 22, 2025 at 6:27 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. (9/20)

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Book cover of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.
February 5, 2025 at 2:26 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. (7/20)

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Book cover: Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel. A stylized illustration of an anthropomorphic frog and toad sat together on a white background.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 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. (7/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
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Cover image of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. White background with a silhouette of a Black woman dressed in a red garment and headscarf.
February 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Finished the second poem for today!

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Original poem text. White font on black background. Title: Smalltalk Text: I'm without sense. Beyond rationality, bent into rounded angles in the presence of banality to try and find its opposite hidden behind bland blank faces. I'm without tether. Slightly aloft, detached enough to hover just above the conversation and tumble like a sad birthday balloon on hot currents of exhaled exchanges that signify ennui in spite of smiles.
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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All the best intentions are sometimes laid to waste.

Couldn't beat the writer's block the last two days, so here's the first of three poems today. Day _ of 30 writing a poem for 30 days. 😊

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Original poem text. White font on black background. Psychic Robbery A poem I wrote the other day ran away with all the pithy statements and artful descriptions I had at my disposal tucked deep in its pockets. When I pinned it to the wall and shook it hard, dust and lint and truth fell onto the cracked sidewalk. Another came forward and displayed its innocent palms to the light, bent at the waist, and handed the truth back to me. I'm home now and have propped it in a south facing window, where when the sun rises, it might sprout and grow.
February 1, 2025 at 11:23 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. (7/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
#books
January 31, 2025 at 9:00 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. (5/20)

#booksky 📚💙
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Book cover of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Green and blue colored background with multicolor font for title of book.
January 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Today's poem was severely un-fun to write. It punched me in the face while driving, the bastard.

It's dedicated to my mom, to both the woman she was and the one she is now.

Day 5 (I think) of writing a poem a day for 30 days.

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Original poem text. White text on black background. Title: Effie Poem text: From the backseat of my car, at the crest of the bridge she said That's pretty. I haven't seen the sun set in a long time. She couldn't know how I revel at the sky each time I cross the river, how it distorts the horizon when the clouds are heavy and low. She was always so patient with my clumsy, unrefined interpretations of what is obvious. I return the favor to her addled mind. I’ve mourned her. I’ve mourned her. I mourn her. She has built and broken my heart in equal measure, and I love her for it. She is the orange streak I can't not see, the insistent refraction of the sun, still visible, a reminder of the beauty in ending
January 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Poop. I forgot the alt text on the book cover. Today has drained me.
Text and icon meme. Phrase "I'm a frayed knot" in brown text on a white background to the right of an icon of a braided rope with a knot showing signs of wear.
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 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. (5/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Day 4 of 30 writing a poem a day. This was initially drafted through blackout poetry of an email I sent my senators today, then further revised.

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Original poem text. Black text on white background. Title: Letter to a Senator Poem Text: I suspect your office is receiving several emails like this one. We’re entitled to answers. It should be of concern to you. I am dismayed at the tenor of your position and the authority it grants you while we wait in the lurch we remain vulnerable. I anticipate your timely response.
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 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. (4/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
#books
Book cover for Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Red cover with white text. A woman's silhouette is centered on the cover.
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Another poem. Day 3 of 30. If you see this, feel free to react and interact! 😊 It's fun how comfortable I've gotten with my own first drafts.

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Original poem text. White text on black background. Title: Gettysburg Subtitle: for Jenksin. Poem text: He declares to his captive audience--they, clad in unremarkable clothing, huddled against circumstance in the waiting room-- I'm going to build a better hospital across the street. He's drawn the battle line. (This hospital don't care nothing ‘bout me.) Pacing, pacing, pacing along the seam of the tile at the frequency where the light is too loud and the sounds taste like yesterday's memories. He gestures at his thin chest--they, now snickering, subverted the gaze of the late evening prophet-- They call me Jenskin now. Y'all don't see what I see. He’s alone but haunted. (Four score and seven years ago our fathers…) Falling, now, falling against the selfsame tile in between distorted squares, down towards a truth, where the full weight of careless authority forgets the humanity endemic to suffering. The world will little note, nor long remember, what he said here, but it can never forget what they did here.
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 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. (3/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
#books
Book cover for C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet. Green background with a spherical spaceship in the foreground. A man in a space suit approaches the ship.
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Lovely azalea blooms at the Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Photo of pink azalea bloom cluster in foreground. Additional clusters in background, blurred.
January 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Day 2 of drafting a poem a day for 30 days. Today's takes inspiration from @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's "Good Bones."

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Original poem text. White don't on black background. Title: Home Repair Subtitle: inspired by Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Poem Text: I’ve learned it does not matter the front door frame is soft, the wood pushed through by an exuberant latch. Replace the strike plate. Conceal the gash with filler. Pardon the dishonesty. On resale, at the white open house, any decent realtor gestures past the dated kitchen-- its capital crime honey oak cabinets--down toward a facsimile of worthy lumber. Cross the newly-laid floor. Remember to ask: Does it have good bones? Around the corner, just that way, are gold-plated fixtures in the bathrooms.
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 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. (2/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
#books
Book cover for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Cover depicts an emptied room with dark wood flooring and beige walls.
January 27, 2025 at 1:35 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 📚💙
#read #reading
#books
Book cover image. The Stranger by Albert Camus. Black and white cover.
January 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Trying to draft a poem a day for 30 days to build a habit.

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Poem text. White text on black background. Title: Simile Text: I try to think in metaphor but only find clichés tucked among the slipper snails and urchins. There is no point in turning over the polished stones, in digging my toes into my brain stem. Oh--there it is. Was. Now, gone. Seeped away into tired gray matter (like water draining into sand).
January 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Enjoyed this #bookish this-or-that! #booksky 💙📚

What books are y'all looking forward to reading? What's in your stack?
Would You Rather? Book Edition. This is a series of this-or-that prompts, black text on a white background. Live in a fantasy book OR live in a romance book Only read new books OR only reread books Have a signed edition OR have a first edition Crack every book spine OR never read your favorite genre again Live inside your favorite book OR bring a character out of a book Only have hardcovers OR only have paperbacks Be banned from all libraries OR be banned from all bookstores Burn your favorite book OR have your favorite character die Read only stand-alones OR read only series Only read physical books OR only read e-reader books Created by @kaileyandherbooks
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM