yes actually

Disturbingly good

Plus a group simultaneously reading Middlemarch at a rented cottage is a book plot in & of itself.

I’m in!

It’s come recommended so many times & then I’d read the jacket copy & the content felt heavier than I wanted in the moment. But it remains on my someday pile.

I vote for the cottage

And…?

I’ve almost started this book countless times. Awaiting your thoughts once finished.

Congrats!

How could I not? 😂

Feeling the heaviness of this outcome in my bones today.

The passage of HR resolution 140 that rolls back a ruling & paves the way for copper sulfide mining near the Boundary Waters is devastating for MN/Canada but also all public lands that are now under threat for their extractive value. 💔

This is what we’re fighting for!

Because of you, calls are coming in strong and your voices are being heard in the Senate. It’s making a difference.

Keep going!!! Call 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140.

brutal! but this made me laugh

Reader, I was rejected twice 🙃

Happy happy, Will!

He looks as though he got gussied up for the occasion 💖

Love to see this!

Hardback cover of the memoir Ghosts of Death Fourth Street: My Family, A Death, and the Hills of Duluth by Laurie Hertzel

I’m always up for a ghost story & was taken in by the portrayal of Guv, the antiheroic patriarch of this family of twelve. A pleasure and a triumph @lhertzel.bsky.social!

Just seeing this now. What a loss to the writing community & world at large. Here’s to more radical wonder.

The future is not writ yet.

Also, these actions (signature on currency, arc, “library,” etc) all smack of a desperate man who hasn’t reconciled with his impending mortality.

Well done!

Feels like the weekend to cut back hydrangea

Looping back to say I want to read this essay/memoir

“A tight fit only once.” Oof.

Amazing what you packed into six sentences.

I’m picturing Sleestak mask in a peasant blouse with tiny hands appendages

Thanks. And yes, I have writer peeps who’ve read for me.

How to Translate Minnesotan
When a friend texts “how are you” & you answer & ask “how are you” & the response is “kinda okay” that actually means “send help immediately.”

People standing over freeway with American flags & sign that reads “Drop Prices Not Bombs”

So sayeth this impotent Congress

Tell me, what will you do with your one wild & precious Tuesday before a civilization is destroyed?