Since 2017 I've had the good fortune to serve as editor of Braided Way Magazine. It's a joy to publish the work of so many gifted writers. It’s also excruciating to highlight only a few in our nominations, but here are our Pushcart Prize choices. (Please click to read these fine works!)

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"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." ~Robin Wall Kimmerer

Voyager was launched in 1977 over 15 billion miles from Earth, it's controlled using 50-year-old blueprints and takes 22 hours to receive a single command It keeps going and going and going 🚀😁 #Voyager #NASA #space

"Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other." ~Lewis Thomas

'Moonlight Feast' Astrid Sheckels

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

We’re the promise of one people, one breath declaring to one another: I see you. I need you. I am you. ~Richard Blanco

Many things make me happy. Growing and preparing food for people I love is right up there at the top. May all of us, everywhere, have enough to share. ~ Painting by Remedios Varo.

Dark triad personalities have traits of psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism--which all involve selfishness and low empathy. They exist on a continuum in the population. Research shows that dark triad personalities tend to possess higher levels of status and wealth. @theconversation.com

It seems like morning's news can't get worse, and yet somehow it does day after day after day. Where's my damn elf hat anyway?

Mad world indeed

The etymology of the feminine word "Hag" suggests its earlier meaning meant "diviner or soothsayer". In N. European paganism *Hægtesse may have meant a "magic woman with prophetic & oracular power". 🪄 * hagatusjon, Hexe, haghetisse, & hagzusa. 🎨 Marie Abrams Lawson, ca 1937 #Witchsky #myth #pagan

By the always-remarkable Kim Stafford.

Past is prologue. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests. And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now. This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.

“Stories move in circles. They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and hard as finding your way home.” ~ Naomi Newman

"Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge;’ from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibilities are sisters." ~Rebecca Solnit,

People are rising up and teaching each other how to resist and fight back, and it’s working. And yeah, we’re seeing a whole lot of stupid ICE agents stumbling around like they own the place. You cannot occupy a city and expect silence. The people who live there always answer back.

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other." ~Lewis Thomas

Art by Natasha Smoke Santiago

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social here’s some cool art!

Them: “you don’t need government supports like food or housing, that’s the church’s job!” The Church: “Shames a homeless woman, films her and turns her away” All she asked for was to sleep in their parking lot. Most of us want our tax dollars to pay for those who need help the most.

This William Balfour Ker illustration is titled "From the Depths." It was drawn in 1906. Still relevant.

Really Bluesky? You expect me to verify I'm an adult by providing KWS with my credit card, passport, driver's license, or part of my social security number? I'll happily live without Bluesky chat, thank you.

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

This is exactly how you get me to do something.

Thursday's @theguardian.com cartoon #zohranmamdani #mamdani #zohranfornyc #NewYork