From the novel "The Music of Bees," by Eileen Garvin #SundaySentence 💙📚

"Once you see the ants, for example, once the life underground and nests in the trees are visible to you, you are all the more devastated when an acre is scraped for development, or the dry hills go up in flames." "Heartwood" by Amity Gaige #SundaySentence 💙📚

"I would love to know more about what it takes to arrive at that moment — how tired you must be, how high, how deep in your own creative process, to realize that the final touch your song needs is a nonverbal loop of you imitating a very determined squirrel." #SundaySentence 💙📚 "The Number Ones"

Well damn. Just finished Alan Sepinwall's excellent book, and now I suppose I must re-watch the entire "Better Call Saul" series. @sepinwall.bsky.social

#SundaySentence “It is possible that if we spent more time alone in Nature our intuitive abilities - another way of gathering information about the world - would strengthen.” - Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning, 1994/2004

"You don’t get ghosts from a past you don’t care about." Brandy Shillace, ‪ @bschillace.brandyschillace.com “The Framed Women of Ardemore House” #SundaySentence 💙📚

"But even the most lax of garages would not certify a vehicle as roadworthy if it had a human skeleton and a pile of maggot cases in the cabin." "Still Life" Val McDermid ‪ ‪@valmcdermid.bsky.social‬ #SundaySentence

First red huckleberry of the season

"Instead of saying ‘I don’t think children should read this book,’ just add a single word: ‘I don’t think MY children should read this book." Dav Pilkey “What it's like to top banned book lists around the world” The Guardian #SundaySentence 💙📚

My favorite from yesterday's #SundaySentence

If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath. from "Lucky" by Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Ellen Crimi-Trent provided the tutorial for this. I have learned to paint a dragonfly. Be very afraid. #watercolor

I need Jelly Belly to make the MANY red flavors better differentiated. I'm having trouble picking out the nasty cinnamons without unknowingly sacrificing the other red flavors that are good.

Sitting with a cup of tea, watching Doctor Who ("The Pandorica Opens", which, as you will see, is oddly appropriate), and trying to decide how to paint a picture of a badly-painted door so it doesn't look like a badly-painted painting of a badly-painted door. #watercolor

Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach OR #watercolor

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My favorite #SundaySentence from yesterday's offerings.

I'm trying to keep things as normal as they can be in a world where monsters live. -- Leigh Bardugo in NINTH HOUSE #sundaysentence

I believe I have found my newest all-purpose insult.

Cheating a little. I have used this #SundaySentence from Naomi Nomik before, at the Other Place, but I just re-read the book and it struck me again, ringing like a solemn bell. "Uprooted" by #@naominovik.bsky.social 💙📚

I leveled up with an assist from a Mallory Jane video about using sponges to paint tree foliage. #watercolor

My favorite from today's #SundaySentence festival

“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.” Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek #SundaySentence 📚💙

Soft mist leaves glittering drops everywhere

Red alder catkins are carpeting the ground.

This #SundaySentence is my favorite of today's delightful choices.

#SundaySentence from Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod by Robert Finch "Sometimes I think our business is to put ourselves in such favorable positions, open to the sky, where, doing some useful and unimportant work, the poetry of life can catch us unawares." #CapeCod

Beautiful imagery

Working on trees. #Watercolor

“It’s astounding that she didn’t understand [that] taking two toes that had been vomited up by one or two dogs from a deceased person and sell[ing] them on the internet was the wrong thing to do." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #SundaySentence

for whoever else is trying their best today

You know what I don't love? Reading a novel with a plot point involving bubonic plague, then looking down to found a flea on my leg.

My favorite #SundaySentence from last week. The rhythm in this sentence is sublime. It aches to be read aloud.

"To read our inarticulable feelings articulated is to receive an act of love." #SundaySentence from Poetry As The Gift Of Attention by Kate Millar (2023 Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2023/08/poet...

There's a special delicious misery when you are pretty sure you've found the next #SundaySentence but it's only Monday.

"I’d watch the bats and the birds dip into the river to drink like they were stitching the water to the sky in lacy, swooping, baroque arcs." Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You” #SundaySentence #Booksky💙📚

First thimbleberry blossom of the season.

I reposted this yesterday, and as it turns out, it's the #SundaySentence that spoke to me more than any. Every single day, there's at least one moment that I'm glad I chose not to be a mother. So here it is again.

It's not just the duty to provide for your family. It's like, as a mother, you're supposed to give up your whole self, like you're not allowed to have a self at all. - Molly Roden Winter, More #sundaysentence

"I was sixteen years old, a skinny, feral, lonely kid who had grown up longing for normal food, biting the heads off fleas, and never brushing my hair." Neko Case "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir" #SundaySentence #Booksky💙📚

My husband just floated the idea that my slight clumsiness is because my feet have ADHD

"How could Duncan not realize that every time you fell in love and it didn’t work out, it scraped out a little piece of you, like scooping out a piece of cantaloupe with a melon baller, and there were only so many times that could happen before the scoop marks started to show?" #SundaySentence

My favorite of yesterday's #SundaySentence posts.

It’s Sunday—do you know where your sentence is? Join us at #SundaySentence for a parade of the best single* line you read this past week. *or two

#SundaySentence from #BannedBookClub by #KimHyunSook, #KoHyung-Ju, and #RyanEstrada "Do they ban books because they see danger in their authors, or because they see themselves in their villains?" #BookBanning

“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.” Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" #SundaySentence #Booksky 💙📚

This #SundaySentence was the one that really spoke to me.

#Booksky 💙📚