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Steve Westby

@stevewestby.bsky.social

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Psychologist (but not yours). Poet. Father of two. Progressive. Author of "By Way of Introduction" (https://a.co/d/dVigNQl)

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · Mar 7

we need them
need the hope of saplings
the steady growth of youthful trees
the reminder of vitality
and finitude
that we too will offer
what shade we can
return to earth
and be reborn

#vss365
Copse

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 8h

we are not made
to forever carry
bombs in our chest

but we do,
we do

and live each day
wondering
when the world

will end

#poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 8h

#Beetle

I imagine
they were there too—
largely ignorant,
just walking by,
foraging for food,
as genius and wonder
unfolded around them

#vss365

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 21h

Face Time

we lose touch
with the sacredness
of each other—

lost, as we are,
inside our cars
and blue-lit screens

#poetry

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 1d

#Deluxe

what if
you woke to discover,
behind all the ways
we hide and posture

are hearts
where love is learning to dance—

slow, at first,
and awkward,
but trusting into step

developing a softened grace
that lights a room

#vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 2d

Inhale

to feel disconnected
is to have forgotten
our very breath—
that sings of how,
in every moment,
the air becomes us

#poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, beloved

many are the delights
that set a soul afire
please forgive me
if my favorite is
that moment you look upon me
with something like hunger—

and silk falls

#bedroomeyes

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 2d

#Undertone

despair lingers
a muted background song
a prophecy of woe

not screaming
but humming its truth
in eternal reminder

and hope lies in
seeing its young face
embracing it as it sobs

responding in harmony

#vss365

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous writing.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

Prediction Error

let the soft earth
of fellow souls
eternally surprise you

be gobsmacked by kindness

fall in love with joy

and dance in amazement—
that music exists
at all

#poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

#Piranha (a human study)

attacks are rare,
and usually only
when dense packing
lends both courage and fear

when hunger mixes
with scent of weakness
the current runs red,
and we are lost

#vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your kind words.

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

Prediction Error

let the soft earth
of fellow souls
eternally surprise you

be gobsmacked by kindness

fall in love with joy

and dance in amazement—
that music exists
at all

#poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 4d

#Raincoat

oh I say
I’d prefer the rain—

but that’s
when nature is gentle, soft

not early March sleet
in driving winds

that leech your soul
and steal your warmth

give me then
my layers

to hold within,
to guard without

#vss365

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6d

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.