Great advice and encouragement to writers, from Writer-Teacher-Education Innovator George Couros: georgecouros.com/want-to-writ... #writing #blogging #creativity

Posted a new set of reflections on writing and the creative process: "Write or Die: Diving Into the Rabbit Hole," inspired by Sue Monk Kidd's "Writing Creativity and Soul" and Ray Bradbury's "Zen in the Art of Writing" buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/w... #writing #creativity

“Not to write, for many of us, is to die.” ~Ray Bradbury, "Zen in the Art of Writing," p. xii #writing #creativity

A visual response to those who intentionally misrepresent the No Kings Day marches as hateful... www.theatlantic.com/photography/... #SilenceIsComplicity #ResetTheNarrative #NoKings

Now playing at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, on Market Street, October 18, 2025 #NoKings

Beautifully inspiring writing from Carlo Iacono, on Substack. #CivicEngagement #Government #Community #Collaboration open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

Now on the California Library Association's YouTube channel: the archived recording of the "Library Directors: Advocating From a Position of Leadership” workshop (8/13/25) featuring Genesis Hansen, Michael Lambert, and Patty Wong: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #leadership

" ...despite the myths spread by Trump and his allies, there is no evidence that mail-in voting is linked to fraud." ~Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 8/18/25 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"...many of San Francisco’s most valuable tech companies...[i]nstead of demanding that employees be in the office a certain number of times or on certain days of the week...are sticking with remote work...extolling its virtues." @sfexaminer.bsky.social, 8/9/25 www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

"Now we can add museum curators to the list of people Trump is trying to crush into submission and force into alignment with his worldview...These are the people who are entrusted with telling the story of our nation’s history..." ~Joyce Vance, 8/12/25 #museums open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"This is a grave day for America, but let’s be clear that we should not and must not remain silent about this dangerous and unnecessary escalation. This is a time for solidarity among Americans who oppose this disgraceful abuse of power." ~Steven Beschloss, 8/11/25 open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Latest addition to our California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy Training recordings: @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social on "Building Technology Into Library Advocacy": www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcO.... More at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... #libraries #advocacy #technology

"But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification..." ~Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger" #anger #advocacy #AudreLorde

Our latest California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy workshop featured a dynamic, highly-interactive session about raising funds for libraries through ballot initiatives. To view the archived version (and others): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #fundraising

"Storytelling is integral to what it is to be human....there is power in stories. A strong narrative can bring people to action at your side." [email protected], with Jain Orr & Qianzi Cao, "Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship," p. 16 #libraries #community #storytelling #advocacy

Reflections, from historian Heather Cox Richardson, on the Fourteenth Amendment...and contemporary attacks upon it: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Congrats to @mychal3ts.bsky.social for making the inaugural #TIME100Creators list! Influence comes in many forms, but Mychal’s is the kind that lifts people up. He’s a force for good in the world, spreading kindness, curiosity, and library joy. 📚💙 time.com/collections/...

"...it appears that officials in the Trump administration are using immigration as a way to establish a police state...as a way to work around the laws in place to prevent a dictatorship." ~Heather Cox Richardson, 7/7/25 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

 "As Abraham Lincoln put it in 1859 before his election, 'We…the people—the people— are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.'” ~Steven Beschloss, July 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Contemplating that fire hydrant while waiting for the traffic light to change. #SanFrancisco #InnerSunset

"Celebrating the 4th of July this year may feel a bit strange to some. The day represents our moment of final rupture and rebellion from a king; our current president proudly (and only half-jokingly) doffs monarchical regalia and titles online." ~The Democracy Index open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

In Philadelphia for the American Library Assoc. conference? Please join Anthony Chow & me Sun., 6/29/25 at 4pm--in the Emerging Technology STEAM Lab (end of Row 800 in the exhibits hall)--for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25

In Philadelphia for the American Library Assoc. conference? Please join Anthony Chow & me Sun., 6/29/25 at 4pm--in the Emerging Technology STEAM Lab (end of Row 800 in the exhibits hall)--for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25

Can't thank @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social enough for making it possible to hear former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talk with author Kwame Alexander at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference here in Philadelphia. #Inspirational americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25

A reminder: today at 4 pm at #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25. Hope to see you there.

At the 2025 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference/Philadelphia? Join @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social, @rdlankes.bsky.social, and me Sat., 6/28/25, 4pm in the ET STEAM Lab (end of Row 800) for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25

When produce is art: Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia #alaac25 #ala2025 #ala25 #Philadelphia

That moment of awe, inspiration, and anticipation...just before arriving in Philadelphia for #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25

Wonderful way to celebrate the positive, inspiring experience of mentoring another up and coming leader (Kimberly LaMothe) on the @atdsfl.bsky.social Chapter. #atd #atdsfl #mentoring

"Trump’s assault on democracy isn’t going to stop if people look away. The hard work of being an American citizen demands that we all engage, especially those in positions where they are still not personally affected." ~ @joycevance.bsky.social, The Democracy Index open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Many libraries are unable to offer digital services, losing access to eBooks & audiobooks through Hoopla, through Libby. We can help! Libraries NEED us to use our outside voice, tell everyone what libraries mean to you! The Library is for Everyone 💛 📚🎨: @devthepineapple.bsky.social 🧵 2/2

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔 Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹 🧵 1/2

"...while the human damage from these [Trump administration] policies will be very widespread, it will be especially severe in rural areas and small towns — the very areas that overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2024." ~Paul Krugman, 6/23/25, on Substack open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

"A poet is the only being whose eyesight improves with age." ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "The City of Mist," p. 101 #fiction #ShortStories #CarlosRuizZafon

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"The fact that an experienced librarian has actually run the National Library, even if only for fourteen months, was an unforeseen accident that the illustrious minds guiding our destinies have remedied..." ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "The Labyrinth of the Spirits" (2016), p. 151 #fiction #libraries

"Padilla’s example of dignity, patriotism, empathy, and moral indignation should be an inspiration to us all....he remains Undaunted in the face of a would-be dictator." ~Jennifer Rubin, The Contrarian open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Kudos to Hannah Weinberg and American Libraries Magazine for the "several updates on the attacks against libraries across the US and the ways in which library supporters are pushing back." Great reminder that every step we take to oppose cuts produces positive results. #libraries #communities

Free registration is underway for the latest CLA library advocacy workshop (Wed., 7/9/25, 10-11:30 am PT, via Zoom), focusing on how a positive, collaborative approach to advocacy convinces voters to fund libraries. Registration: www.cla-net.org/events/event.... #libraries #advocacy #fundraising

"A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it." ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "The Prisoner of Heaven," p. 188 #CemetaryOfForgottenBooks #Novels #Zafon

Another reminder of why we need to be speaking out in support of funding what libraries and museums provide in our communities. #imls #libraries #museums #community

"Here again, it is clear as day President Trump is breaking the law to block funding Congress provided—in this case, we’re talking about investments in local museums and libraries in all fifty states." ~US Senator Patty Murray #imls #libraries #museums www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

"...in America, the 'liberators' are the voters. Not immigration agents, Cabinet secretaries or even the president.'" ~George Skelton, Capitol Journal Columnist, Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2025 #AlexPadilla #KristiNoem #HomelandSecurity link.latimes.com/view/6532a2f...

Recently had the pleasure of working with @librarianjones.com again--this time for a California Library Association #advocacy workshop on "Responding Positively to Controversy and Harassment." Hope you'll check it out and share it with colleagues. #libraries www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMU...

"The number of things I'd failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky. ~Ann Patchett, "Tom Lake," p. 131

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

We the people... have had enough. #nokings #nokingsday #resist #june14 #nokingsday

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

"To Washington fell the challenge of establishing an army to defend the nation without creating a military a tyrant could use to repress the people..." ~ @hcrichardson.bsky.social #NoKings open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...