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Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social · 4d

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Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social · Feb 1

I realized as I listened to some beautiful music, what greater purpose than to bring the light of reading pleasure in this dark world...so I type on.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

“Worst drug ever. Makes you smell bad, kills you, and doesn’t get you high.” @booksstlouis.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social @anneserling.bsky.social @rodserlingmemfndtn.bsky.social @thenightgallery.bsky.social @rockape65.bsky.social @tammykomoff.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social

I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · Aug 16

In Missouri: Get Smoking related illness here, then get a loan to pay your Medical Bills. They got it covered....

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

Good site to follow @bodaciouscopy.bsky.social 📚 @booksstlouis.bsky.social @lalawriter71.bsky.social @tammykomoff.bsky.social @demstegenmo.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @chaosonpaper.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @rockape65.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social @petercbradbury.bsky.social

Christine Bode @bodaciouscopy.bsky.social · Apr 8

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Spoke in Carroll, Iowa today. I met up with Catelyn Drey who recently flipped a red senate seat blue.

Rural Democrats are here...we’ve always been here.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · Jan 9

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

Always good to follow a Photographer @pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social 📷 @booksstlouis.bsky.social @artbyseranya.bsky.social @2bdynamic.bsky.social @tammykomoff.bsky.social @rockape65.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @tamclaughlin.bsky.social @lalawriter71.bsky.social @serinahartwell.bsky.social

Pam Williams @pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social · 8d

On day 3 of my photocation. Snagged this bald eagle shot @ the causeway going into Jekyll Island. #birds #raptors

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🦇 Mandy 🎃 @mandyterry.bsky.social · 2d

It is an excellent book. Great read honestly.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing @thelongblonde.bsky.social It's a Great Book

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

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T.A. McLaughlin @tamclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

The 4th book of The Love of the Tayamni Series, has been released: The Contendings: Teshuvah

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 2d

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 18d

Three Sisters are closely spaced volcanic peaks. Each over 10,000 ft. Third, Fourth & Fifth highest peaks in Oregon. They are about 10 miles south of nearest town, Sisters. The Mnts. particularly South Sister, are popular destinations for climbing & scrambling. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_S...

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

Please hit my follow my follow button @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social come join. Thanks for repost on 3 sisters mountains @booksstlouis.bsky.social @2bdynamic.bsky.social

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Marshall, MO.

I head into rural Republican districts across the state and country and I organize the Democrats in those red spaces. I am a cheerleader for these Democrats. I remind them that they are not alone, and they are a force for change.

I will never stop.

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Nya 🧿 🇨🇦 @artbyseranya.bsky.social · 2d

#RetroArtPrompt #RAPwinner Week 10 #Winner is none other than @arwashington.bsky.social and that is her second win in this prompt series.

Congratulations 🎉 Ms. A. 😃🦄

Please Follow: #Haiku4U #ARW-RAW #Solseed #Artisstree & many exciting #poetry and #writing projects!

Final vote tally: B=5 C=4 A=3

Ms. AWashington, M.A. artist | writer | poet @arwashington.bsky.social · 5d

#RetroArtPrompt #Prompter
@artbyseranya.bsky.social
October 6-12 #dirt #mess
#gloom #clamor #twig #resist

October Eats First

The #dirt doesn’t ask permission.
It takes what #gloom offers—
makes a #mess of boundaries
—spits up bones; secrets
in equal parts measure. 🔽

#art #poetry #halloween

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michaelismad.bsky.social @michaelismad.bsky.social · 1d

Good for you!!!!.I quit 22 years ago after smoking 2 packs aday for 30 years. It's never too late to quit.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 1d

Always good to follow an Author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social 📚 @booksstlouis.bsky.social @tammykomoff.bsky.social @chaosonpaper.bsky.social @kellymiller.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @georgeyuhasz-7.bsky.social @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social @petercbradbury.bsky.social @rockape65.bsky.social

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 5d

“Mary Mackey’s poems are powerful, beautiful, and have extraordinary range. May her concern for the planet help save it.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior

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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 1d

Please hit my follow button @modemjunkie.bsky.social Come join @booksstlouis.bsky.social @2bdynamic.bsky.social

Len Grossman @modemjunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations. I was a 3 pack a day smoker when I quit more than 45 years ago. After a couple of years I even stopped dreaming about smoking. You can do it.

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CinFlynn @cinflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I learned this in my college course on the psychology of addiction.

The rate at which the nicotine takes effect and the time it takes for the effect to wane make it really difficult to quit.

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TopCat @tiffinjames.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent! My husband's anniversary for 3 years not smoking was yesterday! Definitely celebrate these milestones! He gave up drinking in 1984, so now he says the only pleasure he has in life is food, and he is a diabetic, LOL. Poor man!

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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure. 🥰😃🥰

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kevinconlon.bsky.social @kevinconlon.bsky.social · 1d

I quit in '85, after 10 years.

A minor health scare broke through the conditioning and made me realize that I'd become a slave to a very damaging habit. Many of my friends refused to stop smoking around me, so I stopped seeing them and made new friends who didn't smoke.

Best decision ever!

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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Marshall, MO.

I head into rural Republican districts across the state and country and I organize the Democrats in those red spaces. I am a cheerleader for these Democrats. I remind them that they are not alone, and they are a force for change.

I will never stop.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 2d

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · Nov 25

Our 2018 Trip to Brevard, West North Carolina: Home of the White Squirrel & Land of the Waterfalls.

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · Nov 11

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