Release the files BUT ALSO DON’T INCINERATE CHILDREN’S FOOD

Well how about this:

Amazing how totalitarians need to crush what almost no one reads, looks at, or listens to.

There’s a perverse part of me wants to see what DJT, the new chair of the Kennedy Center, believes is GOLDEN ART AND CULTURE. But it’s okay if I don’t find out. Really.

Yes Donald I DO want you to go swimming.

Yeah but wait: nothing is against the law for the president, right? The Supreme Court already freaking said so. Nothing is illegal for that guy. NOTHING.

Bishop Budde makes me feel a tiny bit religious.

PELTIER

Revisiting Carol Shields' novels after a Canadian friend reminded me it's been a while. My god, that narrative timing. That generous, unpretentious voice. I think America should become a Canadian state.

“'How does any 15-year-old get ahold of a gun?' Chief Barnes said."

UMM. What? You're asking this question in America???

Waiting for word that a new small human has arrived. What an exquisite, terrifying, incomprehensible world stands to greet her.

Where I come from, the trigger-happy West, it used to be a despicable depth of cowardice to shoot an unarmed person. Especially in the back. Even if he was a villain.

Working really hard to believe in community. Thanks for holding the torch, @nikwalk.bsky.social

My mother, now 89, uncontestable Queen of Old-Idaho-Work-Ethic, knew how to get things done: "Just keep on killing the closest snake to you." (Snake lovers, we know she didn't mean actual snakes, right? METAPHOR.) Plenty "snakes" incoming. Thanks, Mom, for showing me how to swing a stick. Stancing.

I write fiction (sometimes nonfiction) portraying human experience in the arid American West: characters and settings too often blunted under myth and power. I don't do apologetics, types, "explanations." Working to perceive livable futures on a livable planet. Please help me find bsky community.

Here's some blue sky. Hope to keep it that way.