“Things are always changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take.” -Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
#booksky

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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” –Anne Lamott, 'Bird by Bird,' 1994

Happy Anne Lamott's birthday!

Read, write, dance - or clap - but definitely sing:

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It is never guaranteed that those of you who hold positions of power are able to look firmly and unblinkingly into the future of their own. If anything, in fact, it is more common that once you gain such positions, you become disconnected from a rational point of view. It’s a quirk of yours.

Fictional AI on humans. 💙📚

#booksky

I sincerely hope this is real 🌸💓🌸

It was 💙.

I loved the book she’s holding 💙📚

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Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” John Steinbeck cannery row

#steinbeck #booksky #canneryrow

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San Diego no kings

No Kings

San Diego

3/28/26

Reason six: with the chaos of the lying and gaslighting it’s imperative we continue to see with our own eyes that we are not alone. In how we feel. On the way we are seeing the world. On what we are choosing for our future.

Tiny library book nook model

The #booknook is progressing. My second build- they give me so much stress release and it’s so satisfying. Recommend. Plus, it’s #books 📚 💙

Oh and #nokings 3/28/26!!!

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No Kings, Freedom! Gather on March 28th.

Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake.
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Dinosaur book nook

Have a peek into my in progress #booknook. Sometimes it’s good to scale wayyyyy down. #booksky #books that 🦕 was a b***h to put together. But worth it. :)

Robert De Niro called on Americans to take to the streets on March 28 for a third nationwide day of protest. "No one votes for new wars, higher prices, deportations of good neighbors, or government-masked thugs shooting our citizens in the streets," he said.

400,000 people are in the streets of Prague RIGHT NOW defending democracy against a government critics say is following Hungary’s authoritarian playbook. They’ve seen how this ends. They’re not letting it.

Guys were running out of campaign literature because so many volunteers have showed up to knock doors.

Help us across the finish line with our LAST lit order by donating (and getting immortalized in our office) at katforillinois.com/skeleton.

Sierra Nevada mountains just north of LA, CA, USA. Jagged snow covered peaks rise above green trees and a yellowish plain. A small blue lake peeks around a bend.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel -Maya Angelou

Pic of the day

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"Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul."

Bob Dylan

Casey Means is laughably unqualified to be Surgeon General.

Wow.

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Fireworks above Levi's Stadium as the jumbo screen reads THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE

With much love to you all, let this stand as a reminder of why we fight so hard, risk so much to help the people in our communities.
If we do not, if we withhold our help and stand silently, we are not better than hate.

Every story. Short or not. And track my progress (aka: percentages/pages) religiously. Don’t. Know. Why.

Hahaha my characters are always doing this to me. Like, who’s in control here.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.