#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks “There was for me during this time a sense of being dazed. As though, in a way, I was not capable of taking in everything that was happening in this world.”

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Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #Stunday “Morning is when I’m awake, and there is dawn in me.” — Henry David Thoreau

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract Happy #Caturday, friends! Cosette

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Joan Baez with Bob Dylan and Judy Collins

Several feet of snow on the ground here. Meanwhile, in Australia…

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“The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled.” — Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #WaterWednesday “Maine Coast” Winslow Homer, 1893

Some haven’t forgotten or forsaken.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #Wordlove Pareidolia: The psychological phenomenon of perceiving meaningful patterns, especially faces, in random visual stimuli.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract “A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.” — Leonard Bernstein

Train Dreams (Netflix) No zombie apocalypse, no bomb-dropping missiles, no costumed superheroes. I loved it.

#ShakespeareSunday #Coriolanus “Anger's my meat: I sup upon myself….” (Act 4, Scene 2) “Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible….” (Act 4, Scene 5)

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. "To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." — William Blake

“In war there are no unwounded soldiers.” — José Narosky

A short story for #Caturday:

A gentle poem of steadfast survival. @peter-18c39.bsky.social , @jen-bookfreedom.bsky.social , @goodport.bsky.social , @rickehling.bsky.social .

“My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

Rabbit Rabbit!

#AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek #WforWordsToLiveBy

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ― T. S. Eliot

#AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek Week H: Hygge — Those things that bring you comfort and happiness, especially during the cold, dark days of winter. It has been said that happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur in the every day than in rare moments of great good fortune.

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. “All round is haste, confusion, noise. For power and wealth men stretch the day from dawn till dusk. But quietly I go my way. The green of all the fields is mine. The stars, the night, the wind at play, A peaceful heart, while quietly I go my way.” — Ehrmann

Happy #Caturday, friends! Or, at my house, sCATterday 🙄

#Christmas “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” — Ebenezer Scrooge, from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

#FavoriteThings #WhiskersWednesday “…and whiskers on kittens…” 🎶

#ChristmasHumor Dear Santa…

#FavoriteThings Mismatched paws

1/2 Those of you who follow me might remember my son and son-in-law’s two cats (Shakes and Rumble). About a month ago, a told Shakes’ story, and many of you responded positively to it. Today I received my boys’ 2025 Christmas card, a joint creation featuring Shakes and Rumble, front and center.

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #WinterSolstice #Nature #Stunday #MobilePhotography "This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future." — Margaret Atwood.

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A goldfinch feeding frenzy after yesterday’s deluge.

Happy Caturday, friends!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #Nature #MobilePhotography January, April, August, and December of 2025

“Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?” — David Remnick, the New Yorker

#FavoriteThings My wintering-over buddies

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#FavoriteThings #Hygge (12-second video)