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Jennifer Messner
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Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
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Once upon a Chicago morning
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Same, Peter, same
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 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
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Out and about, snowy Sunday ❄️
#chicago #hydepark
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Out and about, delightful details #chicago #kenwood
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
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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
Good morning, Chicago
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Out and about, a little more snow ❄️
Last roses persisting

#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
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Little Italy. 10:06am. #chicago #photography #blackAndWhite
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A few of the books I loved best this year
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Proof of Winter
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Rockefeller Chapel #uchicago
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 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 ❤️🙏
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Pie No. 1
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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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
Personal goals for the holiday
Feathers ruffled, few to none
Pie, lots
Wine, same
Don't worry
Be Happy
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Add a little sparkle to your night

#chicago
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sunday morning out and about
Lake report: gentle and dazzling
#chicago #hydepark
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
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#SundaySentence
“How to F/Hold on to Your Humanity”
~Rayya Liebich

roommagazine.com/reading-room...
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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the day's end.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM