Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.

If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...

The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.

#FoggyFriday 🍂

My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...

A gorgeous day in the PNW.

Ah, November. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSFr...

We got this, Katie!

I love this idea! "Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue." www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about

Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942

[RIP Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, 70, more recently seen in MIDSOMMAR (2019), famous for Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971), subject of the 2021 documentary THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD.]

See you next time, Bellingham.

Marc Chagall Ballet Daphnis et Chloe by Ravel 1875-1937

Getting ready to leave Bellingham after our annual Autumn getaway. What a lovely place it is.

Are you happy now, RFK! The Pillsbury Doughboy has measles!

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” A little Keats to get you through the afternoon.

"Pennsylvania ave SE" by Taylor Johnson. www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Excited to share my poem Faint Drum, which received a BOTN nomination this week from The Arkansas International:

"My skull / felt empty which meant I lacked the words / to describe such emptiness.‪" I can't stop reading this poem in Geist by Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social. It gets deeper and deeper every time! www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Exiled among the living, I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.” ― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Please spend a little time with these stunning images by Matika Wilbur of Project 562, accompanied by the stories of the people portrayed. www.project562.com/11397500-gal...

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra were our musical guest in the forum at work today and they were fantastic! www.smcomusic.org

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When a Pulizer prize-winning poet comes in to where you work and she introduces you to her grandchildren. 🤩

Ten years ago today I published my first story at @theurbanist.org. 886 stories later, here we are. What a wild ride.

Last hurrah.

This Henrik Ibsen play, that explores the harsh consequences faced by those who challenge established systems, was written 143 years ago and is so relevant today it had the audience enthralled. Highly recommended! At Seattle’s ACT Theatre through October 5th.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. —Charles Darwin

You got outside today, right?

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"Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion." James Baldwin forever.

Happy Autumn and Mabon to all. 🖼️ Autumn Morning, Grigoriy Myasoyedov.

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛ blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

Welcome, Autumn!

I’ve been wandering about on a 4th century BC hillfort (Blackbury Camp, Devon) on this very mellow autumn equinox.

The Waterboys in Seattle tonight. This is the sea.

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

I will have a conversation with Mary Mulholland of Red Door Poets in London on Sunday, September 28th at 1 p.m. EST. We'll do a deep dive into Modern Poetry and to the writing life. The link to sign up is below. Hope to see you there. ❤️

There are 2883 food banks in the UK

The Columbia gorge

Some folks have heard of Indian Boarding Schools but many think they were for orphaned children. They're surprised these children were removed from family homes, sometimes at gunpoint Eddie Benton-Banai (Ojibwe-Anishinaabe), who died in 2020, was a co-founder of the American Indian Movement

David Wojnarowicz - One Day This Kid www.artic.edu/artworks/159...

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