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Baird Bongdew
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SublimeDevolution.com - Creating art to process the loss of a previous and unexpectedly fragile notion of the United States. 💙🦋#FuckNazis #BlueCrew #NoKings
…Music’s red cathedral
A palace of light and reverberation
Reminding us there are still places
Magical realms where people perform together
Roles of art and appreciation…

#music #BrandiCarlile #RedRocks #poetry

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Red Rocks, 9.5.25
Music’s red cathedralA palace of light and reverberationReminding us there are still placesMagical realms where people perform togetherRoles of art and appreciationAmong these the fire watcher’s da…
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September 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Here, fixed it.
August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
August 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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When you convince a long-distance crush
To meet halfway for a date
You want to appear cool to not be in a rush
You fear you might not rate.

You want your bros at home to see
But nervous and arroused, it's all a blur.
Wha seems to pee
the broblem, Ossifer?
patrick star from spongebob squarepants is surrounded by pink hearts and smiling .
ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is surrounded by pink hearts and smiling .
media.tenor.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
...I chase melting edges,
trying to grasp and hold back a river of time,
a constant current carrying me and her onward,
whether we are ready or not,
through the landscapes of our lives...

#love #poetry#love #parenthood #poetry

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Small Hands Excerpt
Full heart, loose hands.As the song says, time slips through like grains of sand,each lost moment a silent testament to its ceaseless flow.I chase melting edges,trying to grasp and hold back a rive…
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August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This times 💯
pretty wild how so many dads with a massive DVD collection of WWII movies somehow managed to miss the entire point
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Dear Hiring Manager, I am writing to express my feigned enthusiasm for the ambiguous position of—I think it was something like “Global Strategy Content Execution Associate”?
Cover Letter for a Job I Don’t Want but Will Be Offended Not to Get
My résumé reflects a pattern of, let’s call it, erratic brilliance punctuated by long stretches of disillusionment, which I’ve cleverly framed as “consulting.”
www.newyorker.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Noise”

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“…The physical pain of it…
Attacking and eating attention
When sounds become noise
Internal and outside worlds in tension…”
Noise
The physical pain of it..Attacking and eating attentionWhen sounds become noiseInternal and outside worlds in tensionEvoking violent outburst rarelyMore frequently kept inside, but barelyExploding …
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August 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Peace of Wild Things
Written and read #WendellBerry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
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The Peace of Wild Things
A poem by Wendell Berry.
onbeing.org
August 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"...I am a river to my people!"
August 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A great antidote for feelings of helplessness at what’s happening to our country is to get back out there and support the policies and people who will help change things! Was proud to support @sarahforiowa.bsky.social for Congress today, and to meet Iowans of all types! #Vote #VoteEconomy #VoteBlue
August 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
They spin and frame
The simplest facts
To avoid shame
(Wait…that is gone)
To avoid blame
And they’ll protest
That we are insane
While they dehumanize
Pillage
And cause more pain
July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A clatter of buffoons
Festooned with illusory power
History ensures their doom
A craven few know better
Most drink sour
Kool-Aid

#iowa #iowagop #gop #pathetic #grassley #nunn
July 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"...They say you never forget their first steps,
and I believe it,
seeing it projected on the back of my eyelids when I am quiet and still..."

#parenthood #poetry #fatherhood #love

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Small Hands
“Big hands, small buttons,” I lament, feebly fastening my daughter’s shirt amidst a helpful reminder from her that we’re late.She repeating something I did state several minutes earlier. Me hoping …
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July 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A clatter of buffoons
Festooned with illusory power
History ensures their doom
A craven few know better
Most drink sour
Kool-Aid
July 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Des Moines, IA #NoKings #8647]
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Each month, our family donates to an org that supports our values. As the #Iowa #gop continues to attack Iowa public schools, it’s a great time to support the #ByDegreesFoundation.

#publicschools #education

www.bydegreesfoundation.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
May 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Celebrated our campaign kick off today!
May 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Exciting news from Sarah TG!
A leader for kindness and possibility.
Accomplishments of our current rep?
There are nunn. @sarahforiowa.bsky.social run, run, run! 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ secure.actblue.com/donate/stg-w... #TeamBlue #Iowa
May 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Each month, our family donates to an org that supports our values. Inspired by a recent event with @mercurystardust.bsky.social, this month's (April...just under the wire!) donation goes to #CapitalCityPride. #DesMoinesPride #LoveIsLove #Iowa #DSM
April 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Grateful and inspired by @mercurystardust.bsky.social today at a #CapitalCityPride event. Such an authentic, honest, brave, and funny soul. Thanks for being a voice saying it’s ok to not innately know what to do in home repair (or life).
April 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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A study in confidence
In being oneself
Smart, gay, funny?
No apology
Awkward unfunny misogynist joke comes your way?
No need to say
The obvious
No panic no rush
Weaponize the pregnant pause
Cause pod bros to blush
Just embody what is self-evident
No one would make a better president
April 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM