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Mirroring your light (No DMs please.)
Mama said thereโd be days like this . . .
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TheColfaxxx ๐ข
about 2 months ago
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut Pic of the day
#photography
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Truth. . .
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Bruce Springsteen
2 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Yes! Thank you Minneapolis for showing us how Solidarity is done! We love and support you!
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Christine Moretti
2 months ago
The heartbreakingly beauty of Amanda Gormanโs words for humanity. Be the light. Save a soul.
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Hoodlum ๐บ๐ธ
2 months ago
Aloka the dog who walked with the Buddhist monks, being honored when he arrived in Raleigh, NC. And heโs damn proud of it. ๐
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Amy Borgman
2 months ago
#smallpoemsunday
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Grรฉachรกn
3 months ago
Donโt think apartness breaks what hearts have made. The sun will span all space to warm the stone, So too does love traverse each distant shade, For I am with you when you are alone.
#vss365
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Here in Virginia, this feels like a breath of fresh air . . . albeit in the midst of the raging dumpster fire that is our federal government. But, hey, I'll take all the air I can get.
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David Atkinson
3 months ago
Written not to shame, but to speak; carrying anger that is measured, thoughtful, & deliberately restrained It addresses directly this indefensible act of ego fuelled vandalism, but also carries judgement on our own selfish, fleeting acts that have ecological consequences
#poetry
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DOLL
3 months ago
About the only things uplifting in this cruel world now are the venerable monks and their beloved canine, Aloka. ๐ญ
#WalkForPeace
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3 months ago
Honoring the Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, who are undertaking a 2,300 mile pilgrimage of Walk for Peace. The monks and their loyal dog Aloka are traveling through 10 states en route to Washington, D.C.
#walkforpeace
Artist: Carol Carter
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A magnolia bloom from May 2024 โ better times. . .
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๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐พโฏ living her best life ๐ก
3 months ago
Folk music has always been about resistance.
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Cian McCarthy
3 months ago
W.S. Merwin with a beautiful poem for the day that it is.
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Glen Dunlap
3 months ago
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
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. โค๏ธ
4 months ago
I was reminded I saved this a while ago:
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David Atkinson
4 months 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
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Amy Borgman
4 months ago
#SmallPoemSunday
#poetry
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
I love this small poem by Jim Moore.
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Ann Tigone
4 months ago
Yearning, a thing with clawsโ 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 himโ please, come to me remove the veil, reveal my naked yearning soul & let desire take over.
#BlueSkyRelay
#Emoetry
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TweetLD
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Dinner with my daughter . . . Who says the one thing that reveals me more deeply to myself. Astonishment dances with delight.
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The Haunted Bookshop
4 months ago
"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.
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Diana Butler Bass
4 months ago
one hand opens in grief the other in gratitude pressing them together to pray โ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, โOne on Thanksgivingโ
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Amy Borgman
5 months ago
Greetings and love on
#SmallPoemSunday
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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!
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PERSIST.
5 months ago
Period.
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Jason Linkins
6 months ago
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...
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What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-24-understand/?utm_source=dansinker&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=what-i-need-you-to-understand-notes-from-chicago
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Sharing . . .because her words are always a balm
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Anne Lamott | Substack
Mostly WD-40 and duct tape
https://open.substack.com/pub/annelamott1/p/thursday?r=9vqi5&utm_medium=ios
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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K)
7 months ago
My sweet Tesla- still going to be killed - BUT WE HAVE A RESCUE FOR HIM! I just need a foster
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-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&
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Mueller, She Wrote
7 months ago
I stand with Matthew Dowd.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini
7 months ago
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. Itโs proof that you havenโt given up on being human.
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Havenโt made a sourdough boule lately, but cooler weather has inspired me to bake bread.
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tweety
7 months ago
๐ด Need a laugh , today ? ๐คญ๐คฃ๐๐คญ
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#Dogs
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Denise Wheeler
7 months ago
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isnโt recruiting heroes, itโs 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)
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His future is in our hands
#WeAreAmerica
8 months ago
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Coach Gowron
8 months ago
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.
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My letters to you lope of pen on paper each word . . .a kiss
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The grace in letting go How a leaf loves the air as it falls
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We plant our flag here, there, everywhere as if it is possible to lay claim to something outside this Self
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Tanja
8 months ago
still water~ the sunlight does all the dancing
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Open hearts may let the light in, but it is seen through tears.
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Who knew there existed a creature called a curly tailed lizard? Certainly not a mature woman who hails from Pennsylvania.
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When you are enamored with an iguana. . .
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Lupita Nihongo
8 months ago
All I think about when I hear people say that itโs bad taste to dance on Hulk Hoganโs grave is that Emmett Tillโs monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply wonโt stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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