Rebecca S
@grongar.bsky.social
I could clean the house.
Or I could read.
Hmmm.
Or I could read.
Hmmm.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I could clean the house.
Or I could read.
Hmmm.
Or I could read.
Hmmm.
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Evening
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Evening
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
Absolutely this! Indie booksellers are wonderful and they have great suggestions that will surprise and delight you.
As we head into Holiday Shopping Season, a PSA from a bookseller: if you go to a bookstore and they are out of whatever specific title you're looking for... ask them for an alternate! Embrace surprise, and the knowledge of professionals! Definitely don't say "Guess I'll order on Amazon" and leave!
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Absolutely this! Indie booksellers are wonderful and they have great suggestions that will surprise and delight you.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Absolute gold mine in the replies
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Absolute gold mine in the replies
Lovely emails from his friends, full of warm thoughts and memories of M, feel comforting and yet bring me to my knees. How do I reply? What's "new" in my life? Emptiness. Missingness. Anger. Brief flickers of possibility. My major accomplishment: a day or two in a row without tears.
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Lovely emails from his friends, full of warm thoughts and memories of M, feel comforting and yet bring me to my knees. How do I reply? What's "new" in my life? Emptiness. Missingness. Anger. Brief flickers of possibility. My major accomplishment: a day or two in a row without tears.
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When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
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Do not forget that even a small, seemingly irrelevant act of kindness has the power to stick with someone and carry them through their day.
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Do not forget that even a small, seemingly irrelevant act of kindness has the power to stick with someone and carry them through their day.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Sunday craving. Sunday baking.
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sunday craving. Sunday baking.
♥️♥️♥️
The latest Polar Artists Collective virtual exhibition is now LIVE!!
You can view it here!:
You can view it here!:
virtual exhibition
art.kunstmatrix.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
♥️♥️♥️
Having one of those weeks.
Took some time to talk it over with my buds.
Feels good to be herd. 😂❤️🐑
Took some time to talk it over with my buds.
Feels good to be herd. 😂❤️🐑
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Having one of those weeks.
Took some time to talk it over with my buds.
Feels good to be herd. 😂❤️🐑
Took some time to talk it over with my buds.
Feels good to be herd. 😂❤️🐑
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The whale's tale art installation just off the interstate 89 in Vermont under tha Aurora Borealis.
📸Tammy White
📸Tammy White
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The whale's tale art installation just off the interstate 89 in Vermont under tha Aurora Borealis.
📸Tammy White
📸Tammy White
Cleaning out the freezer a bit to make room for a turkey and what a frickin' grief minefield: pozoles and moles and stocks and soups and pasta sauces and pulled pork and a gazillion other things he made for us with such love and enthusiasm. Oh, the cooking together. How I miss it so.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Cleaning out the freezer a bit to make room for a turkey and what a frickin' grief minefield: pozoles and moles and stocks and soups and pasta sauces and pulled pork and a gazillion other things he made for us with such love and enthusiasm. Oh, the cooking together. How I miss it so.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Well, well, well...
I'm glad I did all that yard work and moved firewood onto the porch yesterday!
I'm glad I did all that yard work and moved firewood onto the porch yesterday!
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Well, well, well...
I'm glad I did all that yard work and moved firewood onto the porch yesterday!
I'm glad I did all that yard work and moved firewood onto the porch yesterday!
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Had dinner at my girl's apartment. She cooked for me. Life is hard, but I am so lucky in so many ways. We talked books, zines, workshops, making things with our hands. She and her friends are solid, good, and will make this world better.
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Had dinner at my girl's apartment. She cooked for me. Life is hard, but I am so lucky in so many ways. We talked books, zines, workshops, making things with our hands. She and her friends are solid, good, and will make this world better.
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Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...