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Alison Birch

@irishali13.bsky.social

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Mom. Doctoral Candidate-ABD. Faculty Lecturer of Linguistics & Literacy. Poet Published: PaddlerPress. Texas Poetry. Poetry World. Dem. Ally. I like coffee, kitchen dancing, walks, music, comedy, well-written shows, and bad shows. Sometimes funny.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · Feb 15

Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

~ Michelle Obama

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 14m

For your Monday
When You Hate Yourself For Revisiting Old Wounds
~ Nikita Gill
— Call it the worst story you have ever owned, a car crash within your bones that you cannot stop staring at.

When You Hate Yourself For Revisiting Old Wounds
You revisit old wounds for the same reason birds will come back to the places their nests have been destroyed
The mind walks into the same room because it wants to know how to fix those floorboards, paint the walls, turn this into a more habitable place
if it tries something different from the last time.
This is survival.
This is learning how to live through pain once the skeletons have decided to walk out of the closet and refuse to go back in again.
Call it the worst story you have ever owned, a car crash within your bones that you cannot stop staring at.
But the only way to understand pain is to look at it and feel it without turning away.
There is no shame in this.
Eventually, it will scab over and heal.
- Nikita Gill

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

Book Cover of the Day:

HINTS And Haunts
FOR HALLOWEEN by Evelyn Hoxie and others-
PRICE 40 cTS
"THE HOUSE THAT HELPS"
ELDRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
HOUSE Inc:
FRANKLIN OHIO «4S° DENVER COLO.
Black cover with red full moon and black cat in centre. Red and yellow lettering.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 18m

The closer we get to the freedom of childlike creative expression, the better the art gets.

~ Rick Rubin

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

Hello Monday.
‘Shut up!’ screamed Toad.’
🖼️ Arnold Lobel

Toad wearing a green suit and boots, screaming ‘Shut up!’

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

When you don't believe you're beautiful
I want to hold your face in my hands and make you feel safe.

~ Alison P. Birch

When you don't believe you're beautiful
I want to hold your face in my hands and make you feel safe.

~ Alison. Birch

A woman holding her best friend.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

~ Waking up in 2025

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~ Margaret Thatcher

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

Oh - beautiful. One of my favorite sounds. Thanks, Em. I hope this week is better— 😊

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Em @throughthelensbe.bsky.social · 13h

This sound…🩶🌊

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our
Canadian neighbors and friends. 🇨🇦
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

~ Waking up in 2025

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~ Margaret Thatcher

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 4h

Aretha Franklin

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 21h

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2d

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 22h

Your reminder that boundaries are for you, not others. 💙

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1h

When you don't believe you're beautiful
I want to hold your face in my hands and make you feel safe.

~ Alison P. Birch

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 2h

*perfect* (found in a 1966 issue of The Virginia Methodist Advocate)

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 4h

Red Canna (1923)
by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 17h

Raymond Carver:

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Monday!

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

It didnt matter if we had
a million moments together
or just a handful
he made me laugh
and smile
—and love again

~ Alison P. Birch

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 1d

...fichi essiccati ricoperti di cioccolato al latte.

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Claret Press @claretpress.bsky.social · 4d

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 1d

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 2d

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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