Jennifer Messner
@occasionallyzen.bsky.social
Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
Pinned
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
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Same, Peter, same
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Same, Peter, same
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
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Everyone at the station can see their breath, everyone keeps their hands in their pockets, the man who lives beside the station is whistling in his garden, whistling and crunching his boots across the frost.
December 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Everyone at the station can see their breath, everyone keeps their hands in their pockets, the man who lives beside the station is whistling in his garden, whistling and crunching his boots across the frost.
Good morning, Chicago
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning, Chicago
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
A few of the books I loved best this year
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A few of the books I loved best this year
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! Grateful for friends here old and new, Sunday sentences and book chats, Chicago trees and plovers and owls, history and architecture, housing and transit, and much needed humor and compassion. Enjoy your day ❤️🙏
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Grateful for friends here old and new, Sunday sentences and book chats, Chicago trees and plovers and owls, history and architecture, housing and transit, and much needed humor and compassion. Enjoy your day ❤️🙏
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A few photos of two snowy owls near Montrose Beach Monday evening in Chicago.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A few photos of two snowy owls near Montrose Beach Monday evening in Chicago.
Personal goals for the holiday
Feathers ruffled, few to none
Pie, lots
Wine, same
Don't worry
Be Happy
Feathers ruffled, few to none
Pie, lots
Wine, same
Don't worry
Be Happy
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Personal goals for the holiday
Feathers ruffled, few to none
Pie, lots
Wine, same
Don't worry
Be Happy
Feathers ruffled, few to none
Pie, lots
Wine, same
Don't worry
Be Happy
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We're a city of steel, not gold; crust not crimson; Jewels not jewels.
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're a city of steel, not gold; crust not crimson; Jewels not jewels.
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
Reposted by Jennifer Messner
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Reposted by Jennifer Messner
