Ten days. One walk. One journal entry. One small kept promise to yourself.
That's how it starts.
www.walkingsober.org/challenge

Living the same day over and over does something to you. It grinds the hope out. And eventually that voice starts to sound like the truth.

"This is as good as it gets for someone like you. Stay here. Stay small."

But you're here.

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You tried before and then pushed it away.
There it is still that part of you that has hope that you could quit drinking that life would be better.

Then Monday arrives. Same promise. Broken by Wednesday.

Do you have a stance on Meta?

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Austin, Texas: Come have fun with me and others while we walk and kick alcohol's ass in the process.

Stop letting alcohol get in the way. Learn to kick it to the curb.

No tickets. No sign up. Just show up.

Where do I start? How do I start?

Take Action this Sunday - and come walk with me and others that are on the path.

I know it is an emotional reaction - but I think I am done buying apple. Google too for that matter. Who the F knows where to go...

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

And no leadership-designated bipartisan working group meeting in secret to “work things out.” Public debate about public alternatives.

When The State Kills Its Own In 1770 British soldiers shot and killed protesting colonists angry about the Crown's overreach. The Boston Massacre became a rallying cry that sparked the American revolution.

greattransformation.substack.com/p/when-the-s...

We all saw both videos with our own eyes. The government is telling you not to believe them. Let me say it again for those of you who don’t see the Orwellian connection…They’re telling you to believe their narrative over your own eyes. @mikemadrid.bsky.social - read this post from today on substa

Today’s walk was cold but fun.
Thank you to all my new sober friends here. I appreciate your support and follows.

01 - The Ultimate Commitment: Learning to Show Up For Yourself — Walking Sober I share advice my father gave me when I went to college. The lesson of learning to show up for myself.

@robertbreen.com Thank you for the comment. I love that you keep a blog. For Walking Sober - I do have ambition to move around and walk sober with other people. and I am testing a podcast format so that other can walk and listen www.walkingsober.org/podcast/01

Photo of an Osprey perched on a tree branch, taking a quick break from the hunt.

Osprey 🪶

Austin Texas - Each Sunday I Walk with people how are curious about drinking less or not at all. I call it Walking Sober. No judgement. No sign ups. The Show Up.

The walk is listed on sweat pals as well .. "Walking Sober"

A hummingbird with a blue and white breast.

White-necked jacobin, Trinidad.
#birdoftheday
#perfectperch

Dodgers Get More Evil, Sign Kyle Tucker Free Friday newslettter

Wrote about how and why the Dodgers wound up with Kyle Tucker and what it means for the rest of the sport. Free for all readers:

mollyknight.substack.com/p/dodgers-ge...

A small bird with a yellow belly, blue face, green, black, and white wings and a red butt.

A small bird with a yellow belly, blue face, green, black, and white wings. It’s staring at the camera with an “unimpressed” look.

Yeah there’s a lot going on, but ALSO did you know there’s a bird called the “many-coloured rush tyrant” and it looks like this??

I mean, look at him.
#birds #nature

This dude just landed in the tree next to me!

Greylag Goose on the river

Bird Of The Day - (Anatidae) Greylag Goose on the river... #Anatidae #Geese #Goose #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography

I re post a lot of bird pics but wow so happy there are so many amazing birders on blue.

Heron standing on the edge of a lake

Bird Of The Day - (Long Beaks) Majestic looking Heron... #LongBeaks #Waders #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Heron #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography

A Canada goose flies from left to right, and slightly away from the camera. The bird's image is dominated by its right wing, which is stretched out and down and is barely making contact with the water on the downbeat. Each primary, secondary, tertiary, and covert can be made out, but the wing is seen from above, so shades of brown. Part of the underside of the left wing is also visible, and looks black. The tail looks black. The photo also shows the black and white hind area of the bird. The neck is stretched out straight. The neck, head, and beak are black, except for a large white patch at the bird's cheek. The background for the image is the finely rippled surface of a pond, in shades of dull green and dull tan.

A Canada goose (Branta canadensis) flying so low, its wingtip is grazing the water. Photo taken at Isleta Lakes, New Mexico on January 14, 2026.

#nature #naturephotography #birds

Red Kite perched high in an ash tree.. north Hampshire, England 14/01/2026 #birdsseenin2026

A close-up showing the head and front part of the bird. The bird is in profile to the left. The beak is tilted up compared to the beak on most birds. Seen in profile, the beak looks narrow (but when seen from above or below, it isn't). The upper beak is dark. The lower beak is pale gray, turning black at the tip. The eye is dark. A dark gray streak starts at the beak, goes up over the head and down the back of the next, and joins the dark gray of the back. The side of the head, the chin, the neck, and the breast are a continuous patch of white. At the bottom of the picture it becomes apparent that the bird is perched on the stump of a broken-off branch; three toes are draped over that bit of branch. The background is a blurred-out pattern of a few additional branches.

A white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) giving me the hairy eyeball. Photo taken at Isleta Lakes, New Mexico on January 14, 2025.

#nature #naturephotography #birds

@kathygriffin.bsky.social left the Zuck Muck and landed here. I hope you become the mayor of Blue Sky like you did on Threads. I deleted my accounts.

Rainy day bluebirds. #bird #birdnerd

Pair of Greater Flamingos fly overhead, above the photographer. Santa Pola, Spain.

Time for this weeks gratuitous Flamingo photo! 🦩🪶

A busy Great Blue Heron rookery.