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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 · 16h

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 · 19h

...fichi essiccati ricoperti di cioccolato al latte.

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Claret Press @claretpress.bsky.social · 3d

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 19h

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 15h

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 16h

For Your Sunday
It All Comes Back to Me Now
~ Dr. Maya C. Popa
—To them I say, it's ok to be half right
about what love means in the making of a life/God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.

It All Comes Back to Me Now
Maya C. Popa
Dusk, the mountains mauve,
and the samphire trembles between stones,
and the voices of long-dead singers croon through a hotel stereo.
Theirs is a wisdom suspended in feeling: they are always at the beginning
without a watch and no place to be.
To them I say, it's ok to be half right
about what love means in the making of a life. Not a trap, but a clearing.
Here I am, filled out by happiness I could not otherwise have earned.
God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 16h

— Waking up in 2025

Motto

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?

Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.

~ Bertolt Brecht

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

— Waking up in 2025

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

~Oscar Wilde

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 16h

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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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 2d

Here, take my hand
l will disappear, with you

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 1d

Morning

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 1d

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Steven Hawk🪶 @theshadowwhisperer.bsky.social · 1d

Goodbye🌹 Diane Keaton 🖤
youtu.be/2hpUeySbcYw?... 🌹

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

Good night, friends. ⭐️

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting. ~ JM Barrie, Peter Pan ✨

"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting."
JM Barrie, Peter Pan

Wendy waiting for Peter. ✨

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 6d

“In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. What message do I want to leave?”

My goodness. Watch “Famous Last Words: Jane Goodall” on Netflix. She moved me to pieces as always.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Natscute @bluesky2020.bsky.social · Jun 16

Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard Burbridge, photographe originaire du Royaume-Uni, basé à Paris et à New-York.
#photographie
#LeonardoDiCaprio
#RichardBurbridge

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23d

Is fatigue fatigue a thing?

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. — He's got to

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown:

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown:

“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. — He's got to

Picture - pumpkin patch in the Pacific Northwest - ABirch -

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

Stay close to people who want more for you, not from you.

~ evettexo
Twitter

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