In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers 1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid 2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks 🙏

What it's all about.

A beautiful gloom. The peepers are awake at the river. I thought you should know.

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

“Fix your hearts and live.”

But what if we drank beers together out of a Kiss Kasket?

Happy Valentine's Day from the floor where we witness troubles. Here is a poem I wrote one year ago, published in @oneart.bsky.social 💖

I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!! We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions! Read with us!

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

“… I shell shells, terns turn over a pink plastic carnation decoy bright as sushi, what once was a revolution, plastic, now an island in a vortex visible from space” Two-star Hotel, Myrtle Beach + 2 by @ediemeade.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/08/t...

I have three new poems out today at @oneart.bsky.social, one of the most supportive publications out there in this hard old world. Thanks so much to One Art editors Mark Danowsky and Louisa Schnaithmann for my first publication of 2026. Proof I can take "yes" for an answer!

I love pulp paperbacks. I still forage the thrift stores for cheap classics and unknown gambles. They pass through my hands into the little free libraries, and on and on, living again.

Me? Oh, just hanging around.

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]" by Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/live-inside/

"The people outraged about [climate protesters symbolically defacing art] are often people who cuts arts funding."

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… — Carl G. Jung, Letters, Vol. 1

A single leaf: turns orange Me:

Two worlds at once.

little list in the pocket of my heart

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

I start to write, then delete, speculating that even the un-done words are registered somewhere, and I start again. Reserve your mourning for the thousands of innocents. Where hearts are broken into unrecognizable pieces, tread lightly.

Happy Labor Day www.politico.eu/article/ital...

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

If a child anywhere in the world starves in 2025 it is on purpose.

Akasha Wind Anne Hills & Livingston Taylor on a Blue Ridge night

U.S. citizen detained by Border Patrol captured arrest on video

New selfie just dropped.

If you’re not going to clean the air to prevent kids from becoming diseased (which is only going to increase with measles on its comeback tour because Lucifer and his followers have annihilated public health & mandatory vaccine schedules), then …wear a mask. mpower.maryland.edu/n95-masks-ne...

In the wind I hear the poems lost in time. ~Sappho

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Let this execrable publication decompose in the filth it has thus piled. I hope these people dream of Nuremberg, because I sure as hell do.

I went to the Diane Arbus show at the Park Avenue Armory yesterday, 454 photographs all titled in this format. I am going to post some of my favorites in the 🧵 below. Any one of these would make an excellent short story title.

How many more. How many. How.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

I like my men like I like my flowers.

Do you have a piece you love that’s been hard to place? Give us a try. We’re looking for work that sometimes falls through gaps. We’re comfortable on the off beat. If you believe in it, we’d love to see it. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

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Where are my anti-war, anti-genocide musicians at? Have you written a song against war that needs some love? Please share a link. #NoWar #FreePalestine #Peace #MusicSky

This whole thread applies to you and your job and your kids, too.

This song is about the sidewalk prophets we've all encountered. It's also about the (many) songwriters who struggle with religion. 💜 #indiemusic #songwriter #musicsky youtu.be/ToRU7LvadRc?...

It's been a minute but it's still right there.

"Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano." Buckle up, folks, because @rpmirabella.bsky.social has an incredibly imagined story for us this week. Wondrous, human, and beautifully written, "Volcano People" ends on a note of perfect melancholy. Absolutely do not miss this one! 🌋

Something for the real vox populi 🌮

It's a beautiful thing.

Make No Kings Day every day.