The sun learned to comb through the clouds, the nighttime moon, and its own weariness, to once again rise and remind us, we can try again to lead with kindness. #vss365 #comb

In night's inky sky I saw a penny shine & upon its silver face a wish I did make— that you, my gentle friend, would show up at my gate but should it not come true you will not see me cry as in a month's time my penny will return & then, my dearest friend, I'll wish my wish again #sensewrds 256

Never bought #matchbox size matches since I wasn’t a smoker. Couldn’t see the point in buying them, however, I have one given to me many years ago by my brother-in-law. He brought it back from a business trip to Brazil as a gift for me. No matches in it, but it’s not empty. #vss365 #writingprompts

This is Very Exciting and Needed….

Good morning! ☀️☕️☕️ The #earth is ours to enjoy, not to destroy 💛 #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

Good morning! ☀️☕️☕️ It’s #ForestFriday 🌳🪾 I zoomed in as closely as I could. 1 -An eaglet up in a nest. 2- An eagle on a branch. 3- Eagles will stand watch on a tree nearby to protect their eaglet. #photography

The admiral that shuttled aboard the Charon was one of the few that Dylan didn’t despise right down to their shiny buttons on their uniforms. A cold man, #shrewd and quick to point out flaws, but he never lied to those under his command and he didn’t mince words or obfuscate anything. Ever. #vss365

We fell through the silence Yet rose above banter Simply staring At the other Semantics Null & void Not just looking But #clinging to seeing One another for perhaps The first time even though We knew it was likely the last Stoic grip of our unspoken echoes #BraveWrite #vss365 #Poetry #cling #Poem

Your next #vss365 host is a stellar storyteller AND fellow creator elevater! Monique @starfish72.bsky.social will tickle your brains Aug 16-31. Prompt drop: 8am GMT Don't already follow her? Fix that! In Monique's honor, your #vss365 #prompt for August 14, 2026 is #shrewd Aren't you clever! 🧠

Highland traditions. Domestic goats wearing ceremonial wool adornments perched on a stepped wall in Tibet. High-altitude documentary photography capturing daily life and local culture along the route to Everest against the scale of the Himalayan mountains #luiscordobapharchive #Tibet #eastcoastkin

#vss365 #poetry in the quietest parts of the darkest woods are the people we were meant to be content to live off apples that never promised anything after the fall that destroyed it all good and #evil mix in red and green picked by the bunch with a crisp-crack-crunch we never promised anything

To live in static bliss, forever blind, Is a gilded cage where shadows sleep. Unfurl, my soul. For knowledge lights the mind, Though sorrow wait within the starry deep. ​I do not fall, I leap with eager feet, Eyes wide, to taste where light and shadow meet. #vss365

You live in literal Paradise. You're innocent, naked and unashamed. You're besties with the divine Creator. The lure is dangled: Taste this fruit, and you will know everything good and evil in the world. Your #vss365 #prompt for August 11, 2026 is #evil Would you? 🐍

Library funding is tied to usage.

Can we make Carl Sagan Day a thing if we're able to live over all of this.

What makes an uncomfortable story worth telling? #writingq #WritingCommunity #writers

A San Francisco weekend and an urge to visit favorite bookstores feels like a gravitational pull. Books await. Orderly and inviting. #vss365 #urge

life’s unfulfilled #urge the missed chance to sprout & bloom yet love can still grow ©️Aspen #BraveWrite #vss365 #haiku #poetry #PoetryCommunity #sprout #SundayMotivation 🌱 Be back soon…🤒 Love, miss, & thank you all, Aspen🕊️ 👇 youtu.be/ONzuVds6hPE?si…

You know that feeling when a powerful animal impulse surges through you—no thought, just instinct—and completely takes over what you do next? Your #vss365 #prompt for August 9, 2026 is #urge Do tell! 😜

a cricket chirps bringing a dark room alive like camping inside #DailyHaikuPrompt cricket #Senryu #Micropoetry

Dylan had been thinking about the remaining smugglers and buccaneers that still flew free out in the black, despite the deprevations of The War all about them. If only he could #urge them to join the effort, like others he had recruited in the early days. Persuading them would not be easy. #vss365

I'm now her Kahu (trusted guardian, protector, or steward in Hawaiian). Her name will be Ripley when i get her.

Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday. We got up above the wildfire smoke to a 48 degree chill, some thunder and rain. Video: a little stream through spent wildflowers and camera panning around a conifer #forest. #Colorado #nature #peace #trees

On International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, I wanted to share this video from my time spent with the Mbya Guaraní community of Guavirami in Itapua, Paraguay. Their songs reflect their profound connection with nature and their sacred duty to care for the environment. The Mbya were…

My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS Sale ends tonight!

Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play

✨🌸🇵🇰🌸🇯🇵🌸✨ Being in PJCA’s First International Multilingual #Haiku Anthology is an honor. Thank you very much to Hifsa (@hifsays.bsky.social) and the Pakistan Japan Cultural Association for including me in this beautiful collection. #SenryuSunday #PaintbyWords #Poetry #ECK

Some lovely flowers for #bloomscrolling Photos by David Chernoff

Back before The War, Dylan would have expected disruption of any kind to #sprout the kind of people that could take advantage and make a profit from anything, and they did still exist, but something about this conflict, the sheer scale of it brought people together. Something had to. #vss365