Now that Trump is calling for Republicans to vote in favor of the release of the Epstein files, I think it’s too late. Things have been taken care of while the House has been kept out of session. I’m not loving this. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved “I thought life sloppier than I expected to find it.” — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveler

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Mountains #MobilePhotography #Nature #Philosophy #Poetry "The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." — Lǐ Bái

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “Murder, She Wrote”

Happy Caturday, friends! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “The Night Agent”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “Dancing with the Stars”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “Jeopardy”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “The Oath” Thanks for the title, Buddy. 🥰 Photo credit: Seattle Times, December 9, 2020

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “Band of Brothers”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision TV TitleTwofer: “Three Body Problem” “Nobody Wants This”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision “The Handmaid’s Tale”

“Nothing gold can stay.” — Robert Frost

“[H]ow do you radicalize middle-aged white women?" “You throw tear gas at them." — Neighborhood organizer quoted in the Chicago Tribune

#WordoftheDay #Spontaneity #MentalHealth #Wisdom

#ImageAndVerse #Stars #ShakespeareSunday #Nature #Stunday #MobilePhotography

#WordoftheDay #Frolic 😊

Happy Caturday, friends! Cosette is coziest when sleeping upside down. 🙃

Looking at the world from a different perspective. #zen #nature #autumn #mentalhealth #mobilephotography

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Travel #MobilePhotography Reindeer in Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland (3:30 p.m.)

“…[S]top a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy Last night’s Beaver Moon, the last and brightest supermoon of 2025. #RandomBeauty #Nature #MobilePhotography

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Travel #MobilePhotography #Buddha Buddha Dordenma Thimphu, Bhutan 169 feet (51.5 meters) tall

Fans of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules: Nurse Edna, Nurse Angela, and Dr. Larch are back in Irving’s new book, Queen Esther❣️

“Facem praetendit ardentem.” 🗽 “She holds aloft a burning torch.”

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Emily Dickinson speaks to us about persistence and resilience.

“I think I need a new ballot — I filled in the bubble too emphatically.”

1/2: With the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, the mayoral race in New York City, and Proposition 50 in California, we shouldn’t lose sight of “small” but crucial issues and elections facing voters across the country that are getting little or no media coverage. Today in Maine we’re…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Jason Brown, American figure skater

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Nature #Home #MobilePhotography November sunrise

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Nature #Autumn #MobileVideo Excerpts from “Fall, leaves, fall” — Emily Brontë “Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.”

Happy Caturday, friends! @mountainmusings.bsky.social @lorablack.bsky.social

(Feelings replaced with jokes, last day) 🐰🐰 everyone!

One more for #Halloween

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #Travel #MobilePhotography #Iceland Reynisdrangur Sea Stacks, Vik, Iceland

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 46) #Halloween

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Uluru (Ayers Rock) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Australia

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 45) #Halloween

I’ve just learned from @prepekka98.bsky.social that today is National Cat Day. I told my two, and they could hardly contain their excitement.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock The Three Gossips Arches National Park, Utah

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 44) #Halloween @sagehlkl.bsky.social @raphmikey.bsky.social @jessehlkl.bsky.social

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.” — Fredrick Backman Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Trees in Autumn,” 1920/21

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Stalactites, Barton Creek Cave Reserve, Belize

(Feelings replaced with jokes, day 43) #Halloween

My annual Halloween decorating reminder: Keep a thought for the birds.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Yachats, Oregon