I felt... numb ... this morning. Around 845am, I finally was able to write a poem I was proud of longer than BlueSky limits and the rest of the day followed.
#thankful
#poetry #poem #unknown #questions #grief #pain #MovingOn #joy
A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.
“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”
From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620
#poem #booksky #writing
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
A hand holding a bunch of tombstone shaped herb markers over a kiln (I’m unloading!) they each have a winged skull on them and say “here lies oregano” and “Sage” and “chives” an “basil”
I missed Rosemary, she was still in the kiln. How are we feeling about these tombstone herb markers? I only have two of each, this is kind of a sample batch.
Brass snail
Brass snail mesuring tape
The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape
A small grey cat is nestled with his back paws next to his face and his tail looped over his ear.
😍
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We're diving into the Bronte juvenilia, reading work by all 4 of the siblings!
Come dive in with me and see what the Brontes were up in their strange and expansive paracosmic worlds
www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...
reader, he was the last *and* the first.
Mama fox watching over her babies while they play around the burrow
Mama fox watching over her babies while they play around the burrow
Mama fox watching over her babies while they play around the burrow
Stoic Mama fox keeping an eye on me
Guys what if I told you that wasn't the only nature we randomly encountered today? WE SAW FOUR BABY FOXES and MAMA FOX apparently living in a burrow below an abandoned house. I shot these from across the street with a 100mm and they are heavily cropped. Not trying to scare them
A mannequin wearing a sleeveless yellow jumpsuit overlaid with a sheer silver lace overdress
A warm welcome to the weekend after a busy ten days, so what better than some #1960s Tina Leser in the form of a jumpsuit over which a gossamer layer of silver lace is arranged @phxart.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
July Westhale, our Poet of The Week 💙
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Home decoration nearly 1,800 years ago: a Roman mosaic with an octopus, now displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.
Found in Villaquejida (León, Spain) and dated to the 2nd–3rd century CE.
#RomanArt #Mosaic #AncientRome #InteriorDesign #HomeDecor
a tweet by dril, 8/13/12: strongest blade in the world, howeve,r it is so fragile as to shatter when handled by any force other than the delicate touch of a lesbian .
chrisxvargas ® 5h 24 years old. Fully paid off Costco hotdog. It's not "parents money". It's not luck. It's consistency. It's discipline. I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle. COSTCO Costco $1.50 Paid $1.50 Remaining $0.00 Payment schedule Pay in 4 Fri, Jan 05 1 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Jan 19 2 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Feb 02 3 of 4 • Paid $0.375 Fri, Feb 16 Final payment • Paid $0.375
By necessity, she is not what she once was.
fuck, marry, kill: language, cognition, desire
rose phone booth in São Paulo Brazil
i wish to only be reachable via rose phone
“Was I weird? I feel like in was weirds. I definitely was weird. Then again, it was 12 years ago.” Meg says, being held by an ethereal being that represents… well you be the judge!
“Weird” (2022)
Chloe's day out
important business
Your first breath is a promise carried on a crow's wing; this is your land, unfamiliar, swept clean under a full moon: this is your story -- Look at those first tentative steps like the tail of a snake tapering into the sand. You can't blame the crow for the clay, this story as it rises from leaf and branch burning; it is a fire that offers insight up ahead on the edge of the horizon: your breath doubling your heartbeat that's echoed as the crow wings toward dawn.
Not sure where this came from, needs a title (maybe) #Poetry #PoetrySky
Y'all have a good week coming up
Biblical
Calypso, the tortoiseshell cat with a dark and light brown pattern and light green eyes, sits poised on a low black bookshelf as she stares straight into the camera
It is late. You should be sleeping
Yesterday morning was peak Saguaro! 🌵 🌼 (13 blossoms?!)
Bhumisparsha Mudra (Earth Witness) Buddha statue . Seated, with left hand remaining on dhyana mudra with cat, asleep.
Taking refuge🪷
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
