A magnolia bloom from May 2024 — better times. . .

Folk music has always been about resistance.

W.S. Merwin with a beautiful poem for the day that it is.

Here's a shot I got in May of a Cliff Swallow colony on the central coast. There were so many nests I lost count and I can't wait to get back there in 2026! #Birds #Photography #Nature

I was reminded I saved this a while ago:

Today's poem is for everyone who finished work for the holidays That holiday feeling after a few days off and too much to eat & drink and you can't remember what day or what time it is. You have lost the ability to count how many chocolates you have eaten #poetry #poemoftheday #Christmas

#SmallPoemSunday #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social I love this small poem by Jim Moore.

Yearning, a thing with claws— it cuts the soul to shreds in pursuit of what it wants I hide it well beneath a veil of nonchalance yet it haunts me still, relentlessly & so I beg him— please, come to me remove the veil, reveal my naked yearning soul & let desire take over. #BlueSkyRelay #Emoetry

Dinner with my daughter . . . Who says the one thing that reveals me more deeply to myself. Astonishment dances with delight.

"In the solitude of a book, we find ourselves a little more willing to be vulnerable to having our mindset challenged." - Nick Raines The main difference between people who want to ban books and me: They would feel threatened by that quote. I feel *energized* by it.

one hand opens in grief the other in gratitude pressing them together to pray — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “One on Thanksgiving”

Greetings and love on #SmallPoemSunday 💙

Really @kaine.senate.gov You sold us out . . .and for what? My husband and I have voted for you since you were governor. Our daughter worked on your first Senate campaign. And you cave NOW!

Period.

This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Sharing . . .because her words are always a balm open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...

My sweet Tesla- still going to be killed - BUT WE HAVE A RESCUE FOR HIM! I just need a foster #home -NY NJ CT ME RI VT PA DE DC MD NH NE VA- SOME1 foster this baby! Transport/vet/food provided! Why would u not foster? REPOST& #fuckTrump

I stand with Matthew Dowd.

They want you numb. Overworked. Distracted. Apologizing for how much you feel in a world that profits off your disconnection. But staying soft in a world broken like this is not a weakness. It’s proof that you haven’t given up on being human.

Haven’t made a sourdough boule lately, but cooler weather has inspired me to bake bread.

🔴 Need a laugh , today ? 🤭🤣🙃🤭 #Dogsky #Dogs 🐥

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

His future is in our hands #WeAreAmerica

The ability to recognize the suffering of others and offer assistance is not only honorable, but it will serve you well in many situations, some unexpected. Compassion is a transferable skill.

My letters to you lope of pen on paper each word . . .a kiss

The grace in letting go How a leaf loves the air as it falls

We plant our flag here, there, everywhere as if it is possible to lay claim to something outside this Self

still water~ the sunlight does all the dancing #haiku

Open hearts may let the light in, but it is seen through tears.

Who knew there existed a creature called a curly tailed lizard? Certainly not a mature woman who hails from Pennsylvania.

When you are enamored with an iguana. . .

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Wish I could here her sing the entire song.

Very well done . . .

Saw Cabaret last night. Act 1 close, Future Belongs to Us, broke me. As if self selected group (based on invented boundary because all humans are connected by ancestors and genes and mutual dependency) could own time. Our time. Control over what we do at every future moment.

Truth — from “West with Giraffes” “Life is life no matter who or what is living it, boy—a thing to respect,” he said. “You don’t get that, then you’re just a waste of skin.”

Dude in his happy place. . .

words to express love… such tiny pebbles in the infinite ocean #poetry #micropoetry #haiku #photography Check out the photography of Dasha Denger ⬇️

the raindrop bends white light all the power we never claim #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #rain #rainbow #nature #micropoetry #photography 📷 mine

We all have to live with ourselves. . .eventually (if not immediately) that truth is meaningful.

‘This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die.’ Langston Hughes

You are but a cell in the universal body so be a glorious cell one that dispels darkness and illuminates Love 💖 #Spirit #Heart

What if we cracked our protective shell? Would we bleed or pour out . . .light?

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

The Thread A stranger weeps. You do not know why— but still, your throat tightens. This is the thread: what touches one moves through all. Pull gently. #poem #poetry #buddhism #compassion #karuṇā

wheat field and white sky finishing each other’s sentences (previously published in Asahi Haikuist) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry