#birdoftheday. Christmas geese! Don't worry, no one was eaten.

Texting with all my favourite people at once… biological kids, spiritual kids… love them all feeling grateful and overwhelmed.

For this #BookologyThursday Merry Bestiary theme, a small angry snailcat from the Maastricht Hours. I actually have him as a tattoo.

Just mallards, but aren’t they sweet? I love ducks and divers. #BirdOfTheDay #groups

“If you can’t find scorpions get two snakes and a rat.” — Col. Flagg

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Green(ish) Heron, one of the smallest herons. #HeronsandEgrets #BirdOfTheDay. Not the same pic I posted yesterday, but the same bird. I like him.

Winter storm coming in over night and it will be the usual SE Pennsylvania garbage sleet show but I have wine and the last volume of Pullman’s The Book of Dust.

Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Christmas #HolidayReading Day 4 (started late)

Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Christmas #HolidayReading Day 3 (started late)

Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Christmas #HolidayReading Day 2 (started late)

Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Christmas #HolidayReading

Ok so Medieval, about the Czech national hero Jan Zika, may not be a great movie but it’s good fun and gets points in my book for including the Cuman and Pechenegs, non-white military elites serving in 15th c Bohemia. The Middle Ages never were white. #Medieval

Watching Stranger Things and really appreciating Linda Hamilton, one of my favorite 80’s-90’s badasses. #StrangerThings

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My students have two assignments for the 19th c. poetry unit. One is an essay. The other is to create something inspired by a poem or poet which is non-verbal. We have eaten Emily Dickinson’s cocoanut cake, Wordsworth’s favourite gingerbread and muffins inspired by Keats’ “To Autumn.” #Poetry #Food

“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr. Khashoggi. NYT today. Murder happens.

#BirdOfTheDay #Posts Does a pigeon on a gargoyle count?

@bookologythursday.bsky.social I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man… What I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.

Holy hell. Never seen a Series like this. #WorldSeries

Vlad Jr for MVP!

That’s how you do it! #GoJays

Congrats to our 2025 Best Spiritual Literature nominees!

Regardless of who wins, Toronto fans are the best. Compared to tonight, Dodgers’ Stadium was crickets.

Oh my god, Springer. A madman. #baseball #bluejays

Oh my goodness. Such a relief not to have baseball to watch so I can get a decent sleep! See you in Toronto and GO JAYS! #WorldSeries #baseball

It’s been so long since I watched baseball, I forgot how much I love it. Thank you, Blue Jays! #BlueJays

John Smolz keeps saying “This is just a big kid who loves baseball” when describing Ohtani and I thinks it’s kind of awkward. #WorldSeries

Vichy universities don’t deserve alumni donations

MLB on Fox is STILL showing the Reagan anti-tariff ad during the World Series!!

#BirdOfTheDay #sunlit A great blue heron reminding us he is a dinosaur.

Damn! I’m watching the World Series streaming on Fox (!) and they just showed the Ronald Reagan « tariffs are bad » ad that had the White House having a hissy fit this morning !

Well you don’t see that every day….

FFS UVA you spineless wonder.

#nokings Carlisle. Deep in central Pennsylvania. Tons of anti-Trump vets. My feet hurt but that’s how you know it was a good one.

Let me get this right. A bunch of 20 year old students chanting “Free Palestine!”: terrorists and anti-Semites. A bunch of 30 year -old GOP party operatives texting “I love Hitler” and “bring back the gas-chambers”: boys will be boys.

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1951.

This is a green heron. He’s very small for a heron, and not really green, but he just finished gobbling down two fresh minnows and I like him.

Killer Rabbits. Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v, 1340s. www.bl.uk/stories/blog... #BookologyThursday

Found this tiny visitor on my desk today.

Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. And thank you,

In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread. Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk’s flight On the empty sky. #bookologyThursday

Who had purge of the military on their Facism Playbook Bingo card today?

I love the National Park Service.

Went for my daily turtle walk. My daughter, pensively: “If I had a turtle I’d call him turtlelini.” Dear readers, she is 32.

5 minutes from home… I met this lovely family. #ForestFriday

Reading by the pond as resistance. Terrance Hayes wrote these poems during the first 200 days of the first Trump presidency. They are ever more relevant and brilliant.

John Donne, man...never fails to take my breath away. Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new... No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.