“In any case, this world is in such bad shape that anyone
who does not actively seek ill to others is doing an
enormous good.” Vicente Luis Mora, CENTROEUROPA #sundaysentence
who does not actively seek ill to others is doing an
enormous good.” Vicente Luis Mora, CENTROEUROPA #sundaysentence
January 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
“In any case, this world is in such bad shape that anyone
who does not actively seek ill to others is doing an
enormous good.” Vicente Luis Mora, CENTROEUROPA #sundaysentence
who does not actively seek ill to others is doing an
enormous good.” Vicente Luis Mora, CENTROEUROPA #sundaysentence
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
“But all this— the mysterious, far-reaching hair-line trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all— made no impression on the man.”
Jack London
#SundaySentence
Jack London
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
“But all this— the mysterious, far-reaching hair-line trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all— made no impression on the man.”
Jack London
#SundaySentence
Jack London
#SundaySentence
"They all had their losses, and if time made them easier to bear, the dead were also more remote and harder to recall, a silent slideshow of old memories as unchanging as the past.
From Evensong by Stewart O'Nan
#Sundaysentence
From Evensong by Stewart O'Nan
#Sundaysentence
January 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"They all had their losses, and if time made them easier to bear, the dead were also more remote and harder to recall, a silent slideshow of old memories as unchanging as the past.
From Evensong by Stewart O'Nan
#Sundaysentence
From Evensong by Stewart O'Nan
#Sundaysentence
"We need the banality which we find in the first instant of disclosure because it grounds us in reality."
—— John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
#SundaySentence
—— John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"We need the banality which we find in the first instant of disclosure because it grounds us in reality."
—— John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
#SundaySentence
—— John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
#SundaySentence
The snow beat in a soft flurry against the windowpanes. It made a whispery, uneasy sound.
~"Three Blind Mice," Agatha Christie
#SundaySentence
~"Three Blind Mice," Agatha Christie
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The snow beat in a soft flurry against the windowpanes. It made a whispery, uneasy sound.
~"Three Blind Mice," Agatha Christie
#SundaySentence
~"Three Blind Mice," Agatha Christie
#SundaySentence
Wal*ing without a big toe was harder than he imagined.
“Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Galvin in Winter 2025 Chthonic Matter Quarterly
#SundaySentence
“Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Galvin in Winter 2025 Chthonic Matter Quarterly
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Wal*ing without a big toe was harder than he imagined.
“Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Galvin in Winter 2025 Chthonic Matter Quarterly
#SundaySentence
“Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Galvin in Winter 2025 Chthonic Matter Quarterly
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"Truthfully, death is never easy for him, and it's better that it isn't. It should feel difficult, like something irreplaceable has been lost from the world. Because it has."
-- Inside the House of the Historian, a story in
THE AGE OF CALAMITIES
By Senaa Ahmad
#SundaySentence
-- Inside the House of the Historian, a story in
THE AGE OF CALAMITIES
By Senaa Ahmad
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"Truthfully, death is never easy for him, and it's better that it isn't. It should feel difficult, like something irreplaceable has been lost from the world. Because it has."
-- Inside the House of the Historian, a story in
THE AGE OF CALAMITIES
By Senaa Ahmad
#SundaySentence
-- Inside the House of the Historian, a story in
THE AGE OF CALAMITIES
By Senaa Ahmad
#SundaySentence
"While my bowl is still half full,
you can eat out of it too,
and when it is empty,
just bury it out in the flowers."
#SundaySentence and #todayspoem is from Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, perfect gift from a friend and former colleague […]
you can eat out of it too,
and when it is empty,
just bury it out in the flowers."
#SundaySentence and #todayspoem is from Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, perfect gift from a friend and former colleague […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"While my bowl is still half full,
you can eat out of it too,
and when it is empty,
just bury it out in the flowers."
#SundaySentence and #todayspoem is from Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, perfect gift from a friend and former colleague […]
you can eat out of it too,
and when it is empty,
just bury it out in the flowers."
#SundaySentence and #todayspoem is from Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, perfect gift from a friend and former colleague […]
"Come a little closer,
so I can feel you the way I feel my heartbeat." - Sagarnil #sundaysentence
so I can feel you the way I feel my heartbeat." - Sagarnil #sundaysentence
January 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"Come a little closer,
so I can feel you the way I feel my heartbeat." - Sagarnil #sundaysentence
so I can feel you the way I feel my heartbeat." - Sagarnil #sundaysentence
Today's #SundaySentence requires two posts:
"The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea...
"The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea...
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Today's #SundaySentence requires two posts:
"The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea...
"The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea...
"... and into the future so it's all we ever experience, this muted, unassuming joy."
#SundaySentence (3/3) by Kaie Kellough in Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/dominoe...
#SundaySentence (3/3) by Kaie Kellough in Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/dominoe...
Dominoes at the Crossroads – Vehicule Press
vehiculepress.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"... and into the future so it's all we ever experience, this muted, unassuming joy."
#SundaySentence (3/3) by Kaie Kellough in Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/dominoe...
#SundaySentence (3/3) by Kaie Kellough in Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/dominoe...
"... so radiant when compared to the brick and broken streets, the sullen darkness and cold of Montréal, that I wish time would stop and this moment would extend forever in both directions, into the past so it erases everything and is all that I remember ..."
#SundaySentence (2/3)
#SundaySentence (2/3)
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"... so radiant when compared to the brick and broken streets, the sullen darkness and cold of Montréal, that I wish time would stop and this moment would extend forever in both directions, into the past so it erases everything and is all that I remember ..."
#SundaySentence (2/3)
#SundaySentence (2/3)
"Some days I look out this window and see my daughter playing with her friends while my wife sits at the table on our rear terrace, under the willow tree, reading, then glancing up from her Paule Marshall novel, and something about this is so idyllic ..."
#SundaySentence (1/3)
#SundaySentence (1/3)
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"Some days I look out this window and see my daughter playing with her friends while my wife sits at the table on our rear terrace, under the willow tree, reading, then glancing up from her Paule Marshall novel, and something about this is so idyllic ..."
#SundaySentence (1/3)
#SundaySentence (1/3)
#SundaySentence
"With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being; somebody who said to those near him, when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it into my hand' —"
- E. E. CUMMINGS (from the Introduction)
"With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being; somebody who said to those near him, when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it into my hand' —"
- E. E. CUMMINGS (from the Introduction)
January 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM
#SundaySentence
"With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being; somebody who said to those near him, when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it into my hand' —"
- E. E. CUMMINGS (from the Introduction)
"With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being; somebody who said to those near him, when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it into my hand' —"
- E. E. CUMMINGS (from the Introduction)
“We wage the fever of disappointment…How do we do that? By returning to our child self…For children operate in the perpetual present, they go on, rebuild their castles.”
#SundaySentence from Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels.🪽📚
#SundaySentence from Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels.🪽📚
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
“We wage the fever of disappointment…How do we do that? By returning to our child self…For children operate in the perpetual present, they go on, rebuild their castles.”
#SundaySentence from Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels.🪽📚
#SundaySentence from Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels.🪽📚
“January has never been a month for reinvention.”
#SundaySentence
The quiet #folklore of #January:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon...
✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social
📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx
#SundaySentence
The quiet #folklore of #January:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon...
✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social
📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“January has never been a month for reinvention.”
#SundaySentence
The quiet #folklore of #January:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon...
✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social
📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx
#SundaySentence
The quiet #folklore of #January:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon...
✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social
📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx
#SundaySentence from Zeeva Bukai's novel THE WORLD BETWEEN:
January 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
#SundaySentence from Zeeva Bukai's novel THE WORLD BETWEEN:
Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.
#SundaySentence
Cormac McCarthy / The Road
#SundaySentence
Cormac McCarthy / The Road
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.
#SundaySentence
Cormac McCarthy / The Road
#SundaySentence
Cormac McCarthy / The Road
He thought how after a day when everything was at odds-full of obstacles and irritations- dusk in India felt always settled, ancient, a civilization that had come to fullness. - Kiran Desai in The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. (Halfway through and fully immersed!) #SundaySentence #Booksky
January 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
He thought how after a day when everything was at odds-full of obstacles and irritations- dusk in India felt always settled, ancient, a civilization that had come to fullness. - Kiran Desai in The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. (Halfway through and fully immersed!) #SundaySentence #Booksky
... a fiction is not a web of lies, with the truth, still squirming and alive, at its center; in a fiction, truth and lies are spun together, inseparable, in the same slender thread of silk. What the web catches is a matter of chance.
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
... a fiction is not a web of lies, with the truth, still squirming and alive, at its center; in a fiction, truth and lies are spun together, inseparable, in the same slender thread of silk. What the web catches is a matter of chance.
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
#sundaysentence
My first #sundaysentence for 2026 made me laugh out loud. It's from Wrongful, by the wonderful @leeupton.bsky.social: "Only once before in her life had Geneva ever attended a poetry reading, and it was like being scolded by someone with hiccups."
January 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
My first #sundaysentence for 2026 made me laugh out loud. It's from Wrongful, by the wonderful @leeupton.bsky.social: "Only once before in her life had Geneva ever attended a poetry reading, and it was like being scolded by someone with hiccups."
"Human beings are the only species known to mistake their worldview for the world." - Unattributed, in "Glass Overfull: William Rees on Humanity's Ecological Overshoot," by Leath Tonino, The Sun, December, 2025.
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"Human beings are the only species known to mistake their worldview for the world." - Unattributed, in "Glass Overfull: William Rees on Humanity's Ecological Overshoot," by Leath Tonino, The Sun, December, 2025.
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
"If we can just rise to the challenge of communication... we can maybe reach across time and space and every ordinary thing to see so deep into the heart of each other that you might agree that I am like you."
—from Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)"
💙📚 #SundaySentence
—from Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)"
💙📚 #SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
"If we can just rise to the challenge of communication... we can maybe reach across time and space and every ordinary thing to see so deep into the heart of each other that you might agree that I am like you."
—from Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)"
💙📚 #SundaySentence
—from Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)"
💙📚 #SundaySentence