"Even w/ its precision when it comes to family relationships, the Chinese language lacks the terminology to refer to the adoptive mother of your stolen birth child or the various foreign half-siblings & adoptive siblings thrown in the mix." B. Demick in Daughters of the Bamboo Grove #SundaySentence

“We think we know who we are: that each day will wake up more or less the same person. But just as rocks are weathered, we are perpetually formed and changed by time and experience until we leave this world with not a single cell we came with.” A Far-Flung Life by ML Stedman #Sundaysentence (s)

“We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.” ― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis #Sundaysentence Excellent book. Thought provoking and engaging.

“The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stopped wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.” Thurgood Marshall I saw this in the comments on Substack. #Sundaysentence (s)

"I wanted, in this horrible moment, to remind people that what the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.” Rebecca Solnit #SundaySentence (s)

Hello, Friday!

March In March the wind blows down the door and spills my soup upon the floor. It laps it up and roars for more. Blowing once blowing twice blowing chicken soup with rice. #MauriceSendak #March

Impressive

He could write fiction like nobody's business. But he also write poetry.

“Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.” From History of the Rain by Niall Williams #SundaySentence (s)

“Some things do not bear telling... my father knew this. ....he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.” #sundaysentence (s) 1/2

t must be February in Northern California. The rain predicted for the next 10 days will likely disappear them so don’t blink or they will be gone.

"A clear white frost came inside him, his thinness made him seem brittle and he walked from room to room with infinite delicacy, slow and careful and quiet, as if he might crack, flake with the pressure on his soul." from: Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams #SundaySentence

My #sundaysentence this week is a black basket-weaver, a sharecropper's daughter, observing Confederate reenactors in South Carolina in the late 1990s: "They can remember that war all they want," she said, "so long's they remember they lost."

Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city #SundaySentence

The dog saw. The world saw. We are responsible for what we do with that knowing. Ken Gorczyca, DVM Veterinary Death Doula and Artist #SundaySentence x 3

Wake up, wake up, the world is hard and it rushes on regardless of your heart, and people never take the shape you want them to, people are stubborn about that, about being themselves, even when they're trying to be someone else. #SundaySentence, Donal Ryan, Strange Flowers. Gorgeous novel.

"If the sitcoms of my childhood taught me anything, it is that all roads lead to California." From Year of the Water Horse by Janice Page #SundaySentence

Happy February In February it will be my snowman's anniversary with cake for him and soup for me. Happy once happy twice happy chicken soup with rice. #MauriceSendak #February #chickensoupwithrice

Love Kingsolver (fave is The Lacuna) but never got to this one until now. My #sundaysentence: "Is it evil to look at your child, then heft something else in your arms and turn away?" Runner-up: "You know things are bad when a woman without any legs who lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you."

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A rose? In January? Yes!

Hello , new day!

“We’re seeing—and creating—a condition in which facts seem ever more fungible, in which history that doesn’t fit neatly into the form of a movie seems less true than the history that does.” Megan Garber, SCREEN PEOPLE #sundaysentence

"There was too much discrepancy between our intentions." Thomas McGuane, Some Horses (1999) #SundaySentence #aphorisms

#SundaySentence "I mean that there is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land; call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will." - Jack London, c. 1908

“But to me, it's becoming clear that writing and reading is a way of simply underscoring that human connection is important, that you can know my mind and I can know yours, which is a vastly consoling idea, and we need it.” #SundaySentence from George Saunders Is No Saint, NYT Magazine 1/18/2026.

“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden #sundaysentence

I just read this excerpt from Janice Page's new memoir "Year of the Water Horse." wow. Just wow. I can't wait to read the whole book. Thought my fellow book peeps might enjoy this excerpt. #Sundaysentence www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

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“Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies.” ~Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny #SundaySentence

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden I first read it in college. I decided it was time to re-read. Remarkable prose. #Sundaysentence

"Human beings are the only species known to mistake their worldview for the world." - Unattributed, in "Glass Overfull: William Rees on Humanity's Ecological Overshoot," by Leath Tonino, The Sun, December, 2025. #SundaySentence

“Self-discovery,” Debbie added. “What a joke. Life’s too short to find out who we really are.” #sundaysentence #onesunonly #camillebordas @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #natgalley

"They all had their losses, and if time made them easier to bear, the dead were also more remote and harder to recall, a silent slideshow of old memories as unchanging as the past. From Evensong by Stewart O'Nan #Sundaysentence

In January it’s so nice while slipping on the sliding ice to sip hot chicken sou[ with rice. Sipping once sipping twice sipping chicken soup #MauriceSendak #chickensoupwithrice #January

After spending nearly six hours on the phone yesterday with Apple Support (and two hours troubleshooting on my own the previous night) and the issue STILL not being resolved, this low tech device is beginning to look very attractive. www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

After spending nearly six hours on the phone yesterday with Apple Support (and two hours troubleshooting on my own the previous night) and the issue STILL not being resolved, this low tech device is beginning to look very attractive. www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

We get old to be able to recalibrate everything we thought was going to be important. #SundaySentence from Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. #booksky

"That was all family had to be, at the most basic level, someone seeing you, even if you didn't know what they saw." Kevin Wilson in Run for the HiIlls #Sundaysentence

#artadventcalendar Day 24 Mixed media 18 x 24

Nature's Decorations

From time to time I burden you with some personal stuff, based on my belief that our values begin with who we are and where we came from. I wanted to share some thoughts on what it means to get older. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-look-great

#artadventcalendar Day 21 Dark/Light Acrylics on watercolor paper 18" x 20"

“And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” Mary Oliver in Upstream: Selected Essays #Sundaysentence

#artadventcalendar Day 20 Breathe

#aartadventcalendar Day 19 Tiny Dancer and Her Shadow

#artadventcalendar Day 18 Be the Light