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therese88.bsky.social
Hmmm...🤔
Photo of a forest floor covered in mossy patches, new growth at the base of a Redwood Tree. From Sempervirens "A forest knows things. They wore themselves up underground. There are brains down there, one's our own brains aren't shaped to see." The Overstory by Richard Powers
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
pirjosundqvist.bsky.social
My latest book purchases, winter reading adventures, can take me from moss to trees in the forest and around the world with 80 trees and off our planet all the way to cosmic 3D clouds. 💚

#BlueBrewBooks #BookSky
#EastCoastKin
Pile of books. Peter Wohlleben -The Hidden Life of Trees Robin Wall Kimmerer -Cathering Moss Richard Powers - The Overstory Henry David Thoreau - The Illustrated Walden Jonathan Drori - Around the World In 80 Trees Behind the pile stands a book by David J. Eicher, Brian May creative drector #-D images by J.- P. Metsävainio - Cosmic Clouds #-D Where The Stars Are Born
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
cekent.bsky.social
Someone read The Overstory and then looked at the bamboo in his yard …
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ericdharvey.com
re-reading The Overstory (2018)
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
wendywiens.bsky.social
“A tree is a passage between earth and sky.”

~ Richard Powers, The Overstory
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
jonnyauping.bsky.social
for this week’s My Time Back, i wrote about The Overstory, one of two books to change the way i look at the world. i also briefly touched on the other book that changed the way i looked at world mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/the-overst...
One of the books that changed the way I look at the world was James Baldwin's Another Country. I read it in college, and it took my empathy and gave it some sense of direction. It helped me understand the need for multiple perspectives and the need to acknowledge they are not all equal. There's a deep amount of pain in that book. There is also a lot of art permeating around the fringes of that book, but the art discussed is not precious and certainly not lifesaving. The book has a lot of trying to exist, if you can imagine what that means. Trying to exist looks one way on the outside, and it looks another way on the inside. The context of who you are - race, gender, sexual orientation - and how that can clash with what you want your little version of existing to look like, is devastating.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
jeannethornton.bsky.social
"To be human is to confuse the satisfying story with a meaningful one... No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people."
From The Overstory by Richard Powers. I left the cat sleeping just visible over the top of the book in the background
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
otherlandberlin.bsky.social
Playground
by Richard Powers

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.
Playground by Richard Powers Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
pirjosundqvist.bsky.social
There are brains down there, ones our own brains aren’t shaped to see. Root plasticity, solving problems and making decisions. Fungal synapses. What else do you want to call it? Link enough trees together, and a forest grows aware.”💚
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

#ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin
Coniferous forest with a fallen tree and yellowing blueberry shoots in the foreground
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
erineileengray.bsky.social
Today’s walk was marveling at leaf pigments. Carotenoid and Anthocyanin do not disappoint. Bonus, I get to share a copy of Powers’ The Overstory with a neighbor this week.
a tree with orange leaves is against a cloudy sky .
ALT: a tree with orange leaves is against a cloudy sky .
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November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
hoaxter61.bsky.social
There’s a novel called “The Overstory” you might like. It’s fiction, but it has a ton of factual information about trees, and it’s a good, fun read too.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
elisnativeplants.bsky.social
Witchhazel is blooming! Hamamelis virginiana is easy to miss. Look up and you might look right past these arching understory trees, but look closely and you may be rewarded with our latest bloom of the fall.

#nativeplants #forests #newengland #ecoregion59 #bloomscrolling #flowers #trees
A yellow bloom on a Witchhazel twig, with long, thin, crumpled petals Looking up through leafless attaching Witchhazel trees at a large oak in the overstory
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
robertaseaport.bsky.social
FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD. Been meaning to read this (listen to it) for ages and ~4 chapters in it's already my favourite book all year.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
jameswsthomson.com
I wonder how the employees of Overstory Media feel about having their tech bro founder call the company "a failure" in his little newsletter, while they continue to show up at work and try to bring in readers, workers and advertisers?
​Here’s my track record:​ ​ ​(Ranked by success, failure, or TBD — my definition of success: profitable, sustainable, employed people, and with happy customers.)​ ​ - Metalab — product design agency — ✅ Success - Ballpark — small business invoicing software — ✅ Success - Tumblize — Tumblr theme agency — ❌ Failure - Pixel Union — Shopify theme business — ✅ Success - Flow — project management software — ❌ Failure - Medeo — virtual walk-in medical clinic — ❌ Failure - Famous Original — pizza restaurant — ❌ Failure - Overstory — local news business — ❌ Failure - HJ Mews — cat furniture company — ❌ Failure - Supercast — paid podcast software — ✅ Success - 8020 — no-code design agency — ✅ Success
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
steve-everitt.bsky.social
Beneath the overstory of one hundred trillion synapses, the overthinking animal keeps losing its way in the wilderness of want.
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
jacobblank.bsky.social
I held back on starting other books while reading this so this could be my 50th because I am small time dramatic
My hand returning a library copy of The Overstory by Richard Powers to the front desk
October 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
pirjosundqvist.bsky.social
"This is not our world with trees in it. It´s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived."
― Richard Powers The Overstory

#ForestFriday
#woodland #trees
#photography
#eastcoastkin
October 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
beartoothskier.bsky.social
Fall color peaking along Beartooth Front 1800-2000m. Response from our cold system last weekend. The shrubs gave out earlier, they started late Aug. 17C cool but cold w N breeze. Last warm dry day like this tomorrow, colder pattern returning after 👍🏽. #climate #hiking #dogs #montana #mountains
Sundance was slow today, a little tired from yesterday. We all took it easy. the Chokecherry shrubs turn a bright red, they are just starting. the only water on the Palisades trail N end is this little stream crosses the trail twice near the start. Sundance barely fits but he does get a bathing 👍🏽 the first 3K 1800-1900m offer this at times, solid Aspen overstory. But after that all conifers.
October 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
godfrey.bsky.social
also, i wanna know how much Overstory has paid in legal fees to avoid paying workers what they're owed
November 13, 2024 at 11:35 PM
lewis-fungus.bsky.social
is the Oryx & Crake trilogy a bit too depressing right now?

I will also always recommend Richard Power's The Overstory
January 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
rebeccabingham.bsky.social
Beautiful! Your words remind me of The Overstory by Richard Powers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ove...
The Overstory - Wikipedia
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November 24, 2024 at 12:03 AM
ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Months after laying off 17 staff, Overstory Media continue to oppose company-wide unionization — and now staff are being warned that more layoffs may be coming.

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Months after laying off 17 staff, Overstory Media continue to oppose company-wide unionization
Staff warned that more layoffs may be coming
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December 12, 2023 at 4:46 PM
alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
Finished the trippy You Dreamed of Empires, got started again on The Overstory… and got hit with a chills-and-fever spell that laid me out for 16 hours in that weird semi-hallucinatory state.

Great books for that, though, I gotta say.
December 27, 2024 at 7:32 PM
gopher33j.bsky.social
The fifth elephant
Clark and Division
A canticle for liebiwitz
Blood Meridian
The overstory
September 3, 2023 at 2:25 AM