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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · Feb 18

So honored and excited to be a part of this excellent issue of Prairie Fire. www.prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 1d

I love when two posts juxtapose so beautifully.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 1d

That's so cool! I saw the show at Tidelands Gallery here in Seattle late last year. I hope I get a chance to hear her speak.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Please spend a little time with these stunning images by Matika Wilbur of Project 562, accompanied by the stories of the people portrayed. www.project562.com/11397500-gal...

562 Gallery - Project 562

562 Gallery on Project 562

www.project562.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 3d

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra were our musical guest in the forum at work today and they were fantastic! www.smcomusic.org

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 4d

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 4d

Dearest Martha,

The front lines in Portland remain bleak. Today the local coffee-shop/bookstore/meditation space ran out of oat milk so I had to have soy in my favourite new latte.

And the frogs, Martha. Oh god the frogs.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 4d

When a Pulizer prize-winning poet comes in to where you work and she introduces you to her grandchildren. 🤩

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7d

Ten years ago today I published my first story at @theurbanist.org. 886 stories later, here we are. What a wild ride.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 9d

Last hurrah.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 12d

This looks like the chart for a city that is making little to no effort to reach its Vision Zero goal by 2030.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 13d

He says that as if ten is acceptable.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 15d

This Henrik Ibsen play, that explores the harsh consequences faced by those who challenge established systems, was written 143 years ago and is so relevant today it had the audience enthralled. Highly recommended! At Seattle’s ACT Theatre through October 5th.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16d

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

—Charles Darwin

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17d

You got outside today, right?

Pathway through Interlaken with brown leaves starting to take over the path and sun filtering through the leaves, starting to turn

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 20d

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 20d

You are not.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 20d

❤️

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 20d

Back in Seattle.

Italiano and soda back at Analog Coffee with rainbow flag in background

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 20d

Funny. Their original catch phrase was: "Only in Canada, you say? Pity..."

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 21d

Though not scented, I used the dividers in Red Rose tea boxes for decades.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21d

"Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion."

James Baldwin forever.

In James Baldwin’s words: “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ... Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion.”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Autumn and Mabon to all.
🖼️ Autumn Morning, Grigoriy Myasoyedov.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 22d

youtu.be/Irkr7K4hpeA

Fisherman's Blues - Galway Flash Mob

YouTube video by The Waterboys

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks! It’s from a couple of years ago, looking from Freeway Park across Hubble Place.

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Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · 29d

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛

blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

A black-and-white portrait of Diane Seuss. She has long dark hair with bangs, wears dark eyeliner, and looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. The image is framed by a salmon-pink border.

A white graphic bordered in salmon pink featuring an excerpt from Diane Seuss’s poem "In every religion, a purifying." The excerpt reads:
“The rain came in multitudes, / in droves, like supplicants / to a holy place, almost // beautiful, as a shattered / windshield is beautiful, / especially when it rains.” At the bottom, text notes: Poetry / Blackbird v23n4, with a small blackbird silhouette.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 22d

When I posted this back in June, I had no idea they were going to tour The States and that I’d get tickets to see them. The show last night in Seattle was brilliant!