This entire album is beautiful in its heartbreak. I can't recall an album, frankly, that has has such an amazingly cohesive vibe to it, and even if the vibe is sadness & loss, it's SO worth listening to from start to finish. #music #listeningto #TomJolu #StaySharpSunshine youtu.be/ZqfKP3YoyBk?...

A snippet of the conversation last night in the ER (our 2nd home lately), most of which was largely incoherent: Mom: You and your sister are the best. Me: Well, Dad's pretty great, too, yeah? Mom: Oh, he's ok. He's old. Dad's 96, sure, but Mom's 93.

Now it's winter, I'll share one of my few nice-ish winter photos, from a small horse+ farm in mid-Michigan, February 2018. I hope the Solstice was a moment of happiness and hope and calm for you. #photography #winterscene

The last 4 1/2 minutes is an impromptu jam session that followed the intended end of the song. The lads didn't know the entire thing, jam and all, was recorded. They liked it and kept it on the album. I am so glad they did. #RollingStones #music #listeningto #StickyFingers youtu.be/nkQ0LhcTNsY?...

Music can protect my peace. #7syllablesentence #protect

Ornamental grass, in the dark of evening, at a time when, not many days ago, it wouldn't yet have been dark. Bit like life is sometimes. #photography

I picked this up at @therobintheatre.bsky.social - a wonderful place - and these stories are definitely unique. Less murder mystery (what I was expecting 🙄) and more existential dread in a not-terribly-serious style. Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy 📚💙

Michigan in autumn is where I want to be. I had two conversations not sooo long ago about where in the world it's like Michigan autumn year round, one with my then partner, and one with ChatGPT. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #photography #nature #autumn #fallcolor #autumnleaves #Michigan #October

Wow. Not one of my starred guys started, and Kaminski and Jaquez were my high scorers. Oof. And yet I didn't lose that much ground. #fantasybundesliga #Bundesligafantasy

View from the veranda of the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York. October 2024. #photography #autumn #trees #SleepyHollow

The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, Croton-On-Hudson, New York. October 2024 #photography #Halloween #art #TheGreatJackOLanternBlaze #SleepyHollow #October

Here's some music to set the tone for your Halloween evening. Ghosts, sorcerers, and monsters of all kinds...strange noises, moans, bursts of laughter, distant cries to which other cries seem to respond - it's all here. #music #listeningto #Halloween #spooky #scary youtu.be/FkCj-kJMXIg?...

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York. October 2024 #photography #trees #autumncolor #October

Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate, Pocantico Hills, New York. October 2024

I've posted a scant few graveyard scenes this month, disappointing my October 1 self who had big plans. #photography #graveyard #moody #Octobervibes

In the produce aisle At a family do At the coffee shop By the neighbor's yew When I brush my teeth Or read my book When I just arrive home And you give me that look... You can flirt with me Anytime And anywhere #MPPrompt #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I knew very little of this, and it's all fascinating. #Halloween #Samhain #holidays #festivals #history

Today's music is from Wons Phreely and the Horses. They have 819 listeners on Spotify, people, and totally deserve more exposure. #music #listeningto #WonsPhreely #theHorses #indiemusic #independentmusic youtu.be/uYLBP3B0uM0?...

When your daughter and her fella visit and you finally have someone to cook for besides yourself... #food #family #wealsoplayedboardgames #andwatchedStarWars

One small piece of autumn in Michigan #photography #leaves #autumn #fallcolor

When worries aren't Simply a darkness Brooding over everything They take the shape Of the face in the mirror Repeating as many times as All the ways in which The person behind the face Will not be good enough today #MPPrompt

Phillipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow, New York #photography #SleepyHollow #PhillipsburgManor #autumn #history

Thank you for walking away, because I never would have. Friday night vibe. Anyone else? #allgoodthings #loveinvain #masks #noteverythingisasitseems #playingthefool #wasanythingreal #loveisaverb #loveisalie #notgoodenough #failure #toooldforthistohappen #livewell #allthebest #photography #mood

🧡💛🧡 "On n'a pas deux cœurs, un pour les animaux et un pour les humains. On a un cœur ou on n'en a pas." Alphonse de Lamartine. "We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans. We either have a heart or we don't." 📸: Ami Vitale Website: www.amivitale.com #AnimalRights #BeKind

This hits hard, even months later. #music #listeningto #AndyJuhl #emotions #gaaaah youtu.be/i-l2yTq0n-A?...

Flora with a playlist #photography #gardens #Friday #FridayIminLove

Sad behind this screen I wear #7syllablesentence #screen

This week's go. #BundesligaFantasy #FantasyBundesliga

I just listened to @holycovesband.bsky.social 's new single Falling Down and, whoo, fantastic song, fellas - definitely rocks and it sits itself in an awesome groove somehow as well. Now I'm seriously looking forward to the new album Hiraeth. This day needed a good thing. #music #listeningto

Happy 19 years to @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy and thank you for so many astoundingly beautiful distractions to my week through those years. www.themarginalian.org?mc_cid=9e7e7...

Hours with you are but seconds. #7syllablesentence #late

Yesterday ended with another perfect autumn evening in Lansing. #photography #autumnleaves #fallcolor #nature #trees #LansingMichigan

This. #Lansing #Michigan #DaydreamTattooStudio www.wlns.com/news/local-t...

So, yeah. I made it through, as I do (see last post), and am ready to catch back up with all you lovely people here. Here's a black-capped chickadee with something to say.

Feeling like giving up. I've made it through before, and I'll make it through again, but dammit why.

Today's music of the day is a typically great song by Serena Ryder, but the video is sweet and emotional and I challenge you to not get teary watching. She's a mental health advocate besides being an ultra-talented musician and writer. #music #listeningto #SerenaRyder youtu.be/1NJyxUN_mM8?...

Autumn. #WashingtonIrving #SleepyHollowCemetery #autumn #photography

Oh, it's happening. See you in 4 hours. #TheLordoftheRings #TheFellowshipoftheRing #movienight #apparently

Not my yard, but wicked cool find nonetheless. Lycoperdon curtisii according to Seek. Curtis's Puffball Could be edible, but only if you know they're not Amanitas or Agaricus, according to my field guide. And don't inhale the spores regardless #fungiFriday

Here goes nothing. Who ya got? #FantasyBundesliga ##BundesligaFantasy

More music of the day for today. Hard to choose one song from this album, frankly. #music #listeningto #KathrynCalder youtu.be/q35MEQesxng?...

Fair warning, it's October and this is likely not the last you'll see from me prowling round graveyards. #photography #b&w #graveyard #tryingforspooky #October

At risk of oversimplifying, or flat out misunderstanding, for me, this year, I can't help but feel when magic fades it maybe wasn't truly magic, and when truth is discovered to be lies, it wasn't truly love. All of which is hard to take - and yet I keep aspiring.

Being quiet and reserved, I was hoping I did more of these than I do. Goals! What kind of world would this be if more of all kinds of folks displayed these behaviors? Wooo 10 signs someone is emotionally intelligent (even if they seem quiet and reserved) – VegOut share.google/k80zsuKM8kKz...

What's the sense in mild cheddar? #7syllablesentence #sense

Another bit of music of the day, for those of you with 20 minutes on hand, is this autobiographical sketch by Dvořák whose premier was conducted by Gustav Mahler. So, there's no hero from literature intended, and I'M thinking only of Jane Goodall as I listen. youtu.be/-iGc6q4uEn4?...

Today's first song of the day (I feel like there are more coming) is this banger by Andy Juhl that goes full late Beatles toward the end #music #listeningto #AndyJuhl #GoWheretheSunGoes youtu.be/Ez_PG_sfQys?...

Is it blasphemy for an American to support both Hamburger SV and FC St Pauli? Asking for a friend #Bundesliga #fußball

Nigel had a bunch more teeth pulled Monday, and had not eaten Monday or Tuesday, and I was having a hell of a time getting his meds in him. But! Yesterday he ate like a champ and didn't mind the meds I snuck into his supper dish. This morning too. My relief is palpable to say the least. #cats

So we're sitting at our table in the bar/grill in Portland (Michigan) chatting away, and the elderly woman who'd been sitting at the bar gets up and comes to our table, and says to my companion, "If he's flirting too much, just come tell me, and he won't get any dessert." Ummm, okay? I'll behave? 1/