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Catherine Eaton

@sparrowpost.bsky.social

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Writer, naturalist, myth and oak lover, museum and play goer. Pursuer of whimsy. she/her. sparrowpost.com

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 5h

Day 2. The colors are changing fast.

Sunny day. Favorite maple with more red and now orange spreading out from the top crown.

Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 5h

David, I'm so glad you love it here. 😄💜 my best thoughts to you as well. I was thinking about reading more by Thomas Mann and remembered of our discussion about his work. It's a fine thing to chat about books together ☺️📚

Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 5h

It'll all drop by Thanksgiving if we're lucky, ha

Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 5h

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 1d

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite maple has begun to turn at last. It's the latest I've ever seen this happen.

Crown of a maple beginning to turn deep red at the center top.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 1d

The Brontës must be in the air. I recently decided to reread Charlotte's Shirley. I had to order a new copy as the text in my old Penguin has shrunk since I last read it a few decades ago (holding out on bifocals for as long as I can) 😬

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 1d

I've been rereading sections and have come to realize these wonderfully comedic sections are happening during their regular evening gatherings, soirées. No food to distract anyone! just music and chat.

Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 2d

As do I! He’s been so underrated but over the last few years or so, I’ve noticed he’s being read more. a very good thing.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 2d

contrary to its title, Bleak House is very funny and makes me laugh every time I read it.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 3d

A little language
of dew, then.

Denise Levertov, Craving

Craving
Wring the swan's neck, seeking a little language of drops of blood.
How can we speak of blood, the sky is drenched with it.
A little language of dew, then.
It dries.
A language of leaves underfoot.
Leaves on the tree, trembling in speech. Poplars
tremble and speak
if you draw near them.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 3d

Trollope's are also a joy to read, but of course, are very different. I'm starting to think that writers that can write terrific dinner party scenes are among the best.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea Proust was so funny. His dinner parties are a joy to read. #AContinuation25

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 6d

I've been meaning to start her for ages but wasn't sure where to start. this is perfect

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

A cop and a taoist priest ! I didn't expect this combination but I can see it since he put it like that

Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

There's gotta be a Taoist in this mix. I know the drill

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

Jeremy Tiang translated Hunter and he's become one of those translators I always keep an eye for. I loved Beijing Sprawl.

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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 10d

"hazy moon --
bumping into
a small pine" Chiyo-ni
(image: Kaii Higashiyama)

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

I was very tempted by Hunter the other day. Picked up Bora Chung's Midnight Timetable and Harpman's Orlanda instead but I Still wish I had gotten it too. That's book greed for you.

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning ☕️ ☕️☕️

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

Inadvertently found some of Jim Bachor's mosiac work to my great delight. Found on the corner of Van Buren and Michigan, near the Fine Arts Building. "Here lies a pothole 2005-2024"

Fine mosiac work (like you'd see in a fine old building) filling in a sidewalk pothole.

The epitaph in the middle of the mosiac: Here lies a pothole 2005-2024

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

What!! You definitely upped the hardness level by adding that one. I hope you are properly hydrated now? And with a very nice drink too--which you fully deserve!

I can only do three hours with my parental units. Tops. There's such a sweetness when leaving and returning to one's own world

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 9d

*clapclapclapclapclap* a fine feat! Five hours is no joke.

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Duille @duille.com · 9d

Interior detail: 'Windyhill'. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1901.

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