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On Losing a Daughter The people we were died at the exact moment our child did.

“Maternal grief seizes the body differently from other sorrows,” Danielle Crittenden writes. More than two years have passed, but Miranda’s absence “retains the power to hit me anew each day.” Read more from her essay on the death of her daughter:

The Fellowship of the Ring chapter 3: "The thought that he would so soon have to part from his young friends weighed on his heart."

The Fellowship of the Ring chapter 3: "The thought that he would so soon have to part from his young friends weighed on his heart." (A handwritten excerpt)

In my journal of The Fellowship of the Ring I've just written a sentence so poignant and personal that my hand shook while I was writing it

I too face being forced to leave my home, moving away from my friends. Knowing that Tolkien grasped this awful feeling so well is strangely comforting

🥺🫂...slumps happen, but they're temporary 🫂

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Such a mood

The SAVE Act failed. Excellent. Let's celebrate this moment of sanity in our elected government representatives in 2026.

But the fact that it was even a close vote is more than depressing; it's a call to action like never before. ~ Molly, ed.

Narrating Enchantment: Clare Moore on the Textuality of The Hobbit The Tolkien Society 'Big Read': Session 2

Last night, the Big Read kicked off our read through of The Hobbit. If you joined us - thank you! If not, you can catch the recording soon. If you are not a Tolkien Society member, consider becoming one so you can join us as we read through Tolkien’s works! erikjampa.substack.com/p/narrating-...

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear sprinkled throughout.

Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL

I legitimately think that reducing car dependence would improve a lot of social issues stemming from isolation/lack of community, probably more than we know.

*HOW WRONG rather lol

I'm super intrigued with the idea of Númenorean dreams, communing with their ancestors that way. I hope they lean into that. (Either way I will be writing it 😌)

My travel has been so Hank-less 😭😭

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

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409 – Runnin' Down a Ring

Join The Man of the West and @nerdoftherings.bsky.social as we begin our four-part dive into the chapter The Hunt for the Ring from Unfinished Tales.

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Kind of astounding for wrong tech bros get Tolkien. Every single time.

Language Matters Why English is so hard to learn Marlene Davis YOU think English is easy? Check out the following. 1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed. 12. There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row. 13. They were too close to the door to close it. 14. The buck does funny things when the does (females) are present. 15. A seamstress and a sewer fell 2. The farm was cultivated to produce down into a sewer line. produce. 3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store. 5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. The soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert in the desert. 7. Since there is no time like the pres- ent, he thought it was time to present the present to his girlfriend. 8.A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10. I did not object to the object which he showed me. 16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail around the mast. 18. Upon seeing the tear in her painting she shed a tear. 19.I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Heteronyms These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning and sound. When pronounced differently, they are known as heteronyms.

Marlene cooked with this one.

Black text on white background reading: Pick your poison, babe, I’m poison either way.

Me after being left behind by AI

"Your retirement is at risk." - Elizabeth Warren on the Trump admin shoving private equity and crypto into 401(k)s

The Trump Administration is pushing private equity, private credit, and crypto into retirement accounts.

Wall Street wants to dump its risky assets in your 401k – putting your retirement at risk.

Was just listening to TTPD for the anniversary and remembered this edit I made. I juuuuust....😮‍💨

"The shelf life of those fantasies has expired..." 🌖🗡️😮‍💨

#Moonstabby #Peter #samestorytho #TRoP #TSwift

#PoetryMonth #NationalPoetryMonth

"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."

Gibran

#ImageAndVerse

The mind can go in a thousand directions but on this beautiful path I walk in peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #thichnhathanh
#poetry #mysticpoetry

photo: Tao of Gardening

Oh man, I do not think I can rate. But happyyyy to a masterpiece 🥳

Sunday thought: A change in the air The noxious realities of Trump's authoritarianism are revealed for all to see

I hesitate to say we’ve reached a turning point in this horrific time. But something profound seems to be changing. Let me explain. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-chang...

Same same. You shockingly misuse Tolkien, I do not like you

"His favorite fish, long and thin, the kind he loved to watch jump from the ocean as well as enjoy thirds of when served to the family."

Mama gives Isildur a special necklace 🥲 ...the one he's wearing 15 years later 😭

I resent the fact that every time some Tolkien-inspired technofascist Ringwraith makes the news, I am required to engage with their ideas as if they were worth taking seriously.

To be clear, these shitheads must be taken deadly seriously as a social force, but their "ideas" hardly qualify as such.