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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 2d

Not surprising to me! Just another way reading makes you better!

HuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 2d

In case you needed another reason to pick up your favourite book.

Readers May Be Healthier, More Empathetic, And Even More Attractive, Science Says

In case you needed another reason to pick up your favourite book.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 3d

obviously correct, indeed! And on the Halloween front, I want to ask "what are they celebrating?" but then I remember, they're celebrating getting stuff and showing other people their stuff all while creating masses of junk no one needs!

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 3d

There's a home in my neighborhood with nearly 50 pumpkins and gourds on the porch. Next door to it is a home with about 15 inflatable Halloween figures, and yes, I'm a killjoy, I guess, but it's the consumerism of it all that gets me.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 3d

Probably very unpopular opinion, but I wish everyone who spent lot of $ on pumpkins and Halloween decor would take 1/10 of that money and give it to some cause for helping people such as food banks, cancer cures, homelessness, or voting rights.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 11d

Well this perfectly sums up my feelings! I especially liked the descriptor "over-gymmed"! I fear, however, that we are in the minority.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · 14d

72 Hour film fest Frederick was especially great this year because it featured MANY of my former students! So great to see so many I knew were great being great!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16d

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
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R hetorique & the crafte of
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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Sep 9

My husband’s shoelaces came with this handy installation guide and frankly, I’m glad. How would we ever have managed without it?

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Distracting Cats, Day 3:00. Oliver's nocturnal activities include moving things to the living room: used dryer balls, sponges, and the stopper for the guest bathroom tub. I had not included those items in my design plan for the room, but he has other ideas. Here he is, planning his next move.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Sep 1

The news of the world being what it is, I'm glad to have Stanley, the distracting cat, to help me to focus on him and his quest to include more vegetables in his diet.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Notice from a website this morning: "An unhandled error has occurred..." - an apt expression of our political situation at this moment.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Aug 27

My reading this morning included pieces that used words like "lamasery" and "haboob" so I'm full of word joy already.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 31

Distracting Cats, Day 89? Not Stanley helping me put away groceries but knocking over a box of blueberries and then getting Ollie to bat them around as if I bought them new cat toys! Still running down rogue blueberries on the kitchen floor...

ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m a sinner I guess- I used to toast them and then put butter on them- when I was about 9 back when they were not frosted 😊

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Jul 22

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 19

I'm glad to know I'm not alone; I don't feel the need to record it all, and I don't understand it, but you are so right about the "morons certain of their genius."

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 19

it IS checking off boxes, and honestly, do they really go back and look at all these photos they take? Maybe museums could have a cell-phone free day each week or month. I would be a big supporter and donator of money for a place like that!

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 19

trying to remember my love for my fellow man while listening to someone in the train seat behind me snort, cough and very audibly clear what sounds like a sewer of a sinus system every 20 seconds.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 18

MET visit follow up post: Saw Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit, and NO ONE was being obnoxious with a phone, AND the exhibit was beyond superfine, especially if you like beautiful tailoring, expressive clothing, really interesting ideas about identity, freedom, resistance, self-expression.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 18

At the MET, seeing John Singer Sargent exhibit, hugely annoyed by people who, cellphones up, took pictures of the art, multiple photos, making it challenging to actually see art. If there's a good reason for taking photos of art work in a gallery rather than just looking at it, I'd like to know.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 8

Distracting cat behavior log, Day #? I've lost track of the days and now, I seem to have lost control of a rubber duck, one of my grandchildren's bathtub toys which mysteriously appeared downstairs. Stanley and Oliver are my main suspects as Nick has no real interest in rubber ducks.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jul 3

I have much bigger worries than this, but I have several acquaintances who begin questions with "Wait-" and I guess that's an expression, but I don't like being told to wait when I'm supposed to answer.

ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you have gone to the trouble to pre-unrolled toilet paper and you have unrolled too much, should you put some on the kitchen floor? Stanley thinks so. Then you should sit in a punch bowl.

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jun 23

Oh my! I couldn’t agree more or have put it better!

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ETringali @elizat.bsky.social · Jun 21

I meant to say this made me laugh out loud - and I think I'd prefer a Real Housewives treatment of my family drama!

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