#witmonth started with Abigail by Magda Szabó. I didn’t love the audio reader’s voice, but I enjoyed the book. Now I’m finishing up Penance by Kanae Minato.
Gratia Léger
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Reader. Writer. Dog lover. Historian. Tea lover. Walker. Knitter. Vegetable whisperer. Lifelong Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
No fair. Ann Patchett's Whistler, and the audio of Maggie O'Farrell's Land came on the same day.
Argyll & I got out at my fav. time to walk. No golden light, but some cool clouds & colors.
"It is very difficult to make political change without knowing what has happened before. Indeed, one of the ways that people are systematically disempowered from making political change is by being denied knowledge of what came before." Timothy Snyder Agreed. Knowledge of our past conveys power.
Season’s first okra and tomatoes!!!! May there be many more iterations.
My favorite part of sunset is seeing our shadow under the mauve band in the east. Most visible in winter, I’ve often seen it about now. Here it is, w/ Mr Moon leaning out above the mauve.
I’ve enjoyed the illustrations this artist had done for several picture books. Excited to see the first one she wrote and illustrated. #booksky
Alleanna Harris@alleannaharris.bsky.social · 2w agoHere’s a master thread introducing the family members in my upcoming debut author-illustrator picture book, O Holy Night: A Modern Christmas Carol, publishing with @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social on 9/22 🎄✨🧵 #kidlit #kidlitart
Today I went to Aquetong Spring, a site sacred to the Lenape, and one of the largest cold water limestone springs in PA. It’s deep & clear & the sound of 2000 gal/min rushing to start a creek is soul healing. Too many people talking @ the spring, so here’s the creek about 1/4 mi downstream.
A very concerned Susan Collins turns out to have benefitted from men involved in the Epstein matter.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoFinancial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files.
Angry Beaver Mouth got booed. The clip went viral. Now he’s slapping 50% tariffs on Canada, using an obscure provision of a law that helped lock in the Great Depression. When you do your thinking with your capacious, poisoned gut, there’s no ceiling on stupidity.
Watching a bunch of videos of the Union Pacific Big Boy run. One of them showed the drive wheels beautifully, and I recalled that my grandfather’s grandfather did an apprenticeship with a RR machine shop outside of N.O., where his first job was learning to change locomotive tires.
Argyll & I got a walk. There were 5 guys munching in a bunch. A beautiful sight, given that they’re NIMBY. And a young looking deer with sunset. It had beautiful eyes, which don’t show up here, but were quite visible at 8’.
My man looks like he created a cocktail that's equal parts vodka and formaldehyde
I’m disgusted by the growing # of small municipalities around me that have switched to parking pmt systems that require a smart phone, advanced digital literacy, & credit card. Or else the physical ability to walk between 4 blocks and 2 miles from the parking that does not require these things.
The apocalypse is now, but sure, let’s blame Canada. Also, let’s pretend climate change is not real. Enjoy the view air. Me, I prefer invisible air.
Basically, the domestic abuser who says, "If you don't want me to have to hit you again, you better shut your filthy mouth."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
