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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 1h

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3h

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell. - Naomi Shihab Nye
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

The Rider- Naomi Shihab Nye

A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,

the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.

What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles.

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 14h

Got it! 🥰

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you so much. I love the colorway...and am experimenting with different simple texture patterns. 😊

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you tons!!

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 21h

Soctober continues with Petty Harbour socks (comforting 4 row repeat texture pattern) by Rayna Curtis of First Light Handcrafts in Fa La La La La yarn by The Sheepyshire. Dahlias are Jowey Winnie, & I am loving them for as long as I can! 🧶

#Knitting #Socktober #Dahlias #Bloomscrolling #SanityInYarn

A hand holds a partially knitted sock in white, pale green, and pink against some pink dahlias in a garden.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 21h

Adorable! Is the cat a pattern....or did you invent it?

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Believer in Flax & Free Speech @slowfashionsage.bsky.social · 2d

📃 Your rights as a protester: @aclu.org
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
@indivisible.org @indivistriangle.bsky.social @indivistriangle.bsky.social

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

www.aclu.org

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 1d

www.justapinch.com/recipes/brea...

Grape-Nuts Quick Bread- Mom's

Both my Mom and Grandma made this quick bread often. It is delicious, and all the kids ate it without complaint, instead of their usual white bread. I found the recipe in...

www.justapinch.com

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 1d

After a session of cat yoga, Winnie inspects the Grape Nut Bread. Recipe in the comments.

#Cats #LongHairedCats #LateFor #Caturday #Baking #BakingSky

A white and brown long-haired cat stretches out on a soft chair.

A brown and white long-haired cat smells a loaf of bread set on a white cast iron table.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 2d

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 4d

It's Banned Books Week, & here's a poem I wrote in 2012 about some important characters living in important books. I keep my poems and lessons for children at The (ad & AI free) Poem Farm & have done so since 2010. poemfarm.amylv.com/2012/10/are-... 📚

#BannedBooksWeek #ReadBannedBooks #Democracy

Text of a poem titled "Are You There, God?" by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater.

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 4d

How many of these banned or challenged books have you read? ❤️ It’s hard to see how stories of love, courage, and kindness could threaten anyone but each has been banned somewhere in America. 📣 Read them. Share them. Request them. Speak out. #BannedBooksWeek

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5d

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 6d

Stacking our front porch with winter wood, I carved out a cozy nook made from firewood walls. Tonight I am knitting here, listening to the glorious sound of much needed rain. 🧶

#Home #Socktober #Knitting #KnittingForCalm #AntifaKnitter #Socks #LibrarySocks #KimsDyedYarn #Home #Grateful #Cozy #Hygge

A pink bistro table with knitting scattered atop sits in a cozy nook made from stacked firewood.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 7d

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 7d

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 7d

Socktober continues with these Hermione socks in colorway Shifting Seasons by The Sheepyshire. I am thankful that my lovely Danish host mother Birte taught me to knit back when I was a Rotary exchange student in '87-'88. ❣️

#Socktober #Knitting #Socks #Handknit #Maker #Socks #ShowMeYourKnits #Fall 🧶

Two feet in orange and blue handknit socks rest in a garden with marigolds.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 8d

Aw. Good on the Bills.

victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 11d

thank you bills tiktok

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 9d

Claude says, "I will help you with the puzzle."

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #LongHairedCats 😽

A buff-colored cat with orange eyes looks up from his spot on the puzzle box.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 10d

Hope's secret:
it doesn't know
the destination-
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front of the other.
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

HOPE

Hope has holes in its pockets.

It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination-it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other.

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 11d

My dad used to make up stories about how he's save a town and they'd made him mayor, then he would make a bunch of terrible rules and they'd somehow fire him using 1 of said rules, and not only did I fully believe he'd been a mayor but I'm sure this is part of why I became a writer. This is so sad.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much. ❤️

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much. ❤️

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

Ugh. I am terribly sorry. Here we did not need to check a specific box...I.. ❣️

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! X

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