Little by little peel the skin off the orange of now, until you can taste the fugitive sweetness. Think of it as your idea and gently swallow. --Robert Kelly

Female cardinal 🪶

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A slice of Catskill

Train!

Robert's and my 33rd wedding anniversary is fast approaching 😯

So grateful to the FAF judges for choosing my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS as a finalist for the 2026 French-American Foundation Translation Prize! Honored to be on such a distinguished list of authors & translators. frenchamerican.org/2026-transla...

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Stanley the Noble 🧡

Red-bellied woodpecker 🪶

Stanley 🧡

Baby woodchuck!

Hard to see in this photo how green the Catskills were today 💚

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Stanley 🧡

💔 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Can now announce that at the young age of 90 Robert Kelly has eaten his first S'more

Just realized that S'mores are my madeleine 🤍

This little red squirrel has been sitting on our chair arm on the deck every day :)

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It's almost dark out but I can count 5 male cardinals still hanging out by the feeder

Fell in love with this cloud on my way to the Indian restaurant

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This mourning dove seems to have a disproportionately small head for its body 🪶

This lovely female cardinal 🪶

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Red bellied woodpecker trying to scare off a red-winged blackbird 🪶

Blue jay, red-bellied woodpecker, red-winged blackbirds 🪶

Blue jay 🪶

A bright cardinal on a dreary day 🪶

Red horse chestnut

Raindrops 💚

Beautiful shale by the Hudson

This Northern mockingbird (I think?) was just hanging out by the Hudson 🪶

I saved $17.76 at ShopRite! On Memorial Day Weekend!!

About the music box William Weaver played today on @wqxr.bsky.social :

So lovely to hear my old friend William Weaver's voice on today's @wqxr.bsky.social broadcast of Turandot 💔

Stanley 🧡

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A few of my all-time favorite translations: Jean Starr Untermeyer, THE DEATH OF VIRGIL by Hermann Broch; Anthea Bell, THE LIFE & OPINIONS OF TOMCAT MURR by ETA Hoffman; CK Scott Moncrieff's Proust; Chris Andrews, BY NIGHT IN CHILE by Bolaño. So grateful to them all.

Once I started thinking more deeply about translation, which coincided with the new Oxford Proust and C. Mandell's peerless version of vol. 2, it became impossible to overlook the other name(s) attributed to the translated books I read. These days I am as likely to look up a translator as an author!

“Oversight”! How can you talk about Énard in the English language *without mentioning Charlotte’s amazing work? Phfft!