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Disabled and retired PT. I work now in low-income housing. I read nonstop off the job, except when the dog needs belly rubs. // I won't reply to DMs unless we have been chatting in the public feed.
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Word of the Day: Iconoclast -- someone who criticizes widely accepted beliefs or practices
Word of the Day: Iconoclast -- someone who criticizes widely accepted beliefs or practices
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Word of the Day: Iconoclast -- someone who criticizes widely accepted beliefs or practices
Word of the Day: Iconoclast -- someone who criticizes widely accepted beliefs or practices
💙🪐📚 334/365 Poems -- Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind by Casey Aimer magazine.trollbreath.com/technologica...
Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind - Trollbreath Magazine
Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind
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November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
💙🪐📚 334/365 Poems -- Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind by Casey Aimer magazine.trollbreath.com/technologica...
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1/ Zita Leeson Weinshienk (April 3, 1933 – October 7, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 1979 to 2011. #WomanToday
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Zita Leeson Weinshienk (April 3, 1933 – October 7, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 1979 to 2011. #WomanToday
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Word of the Day: Exculpatory -- serving to prove someone is not guilty of doing something wrong.
Word of the Day: Exculpatory -- serving to prove someone is not guilty of doing something wrong.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Word of the Day: Exculpatory -- serving to prove someone is not guilty of doing something wrong.
Word of the Day: Exculpatory -- serving to prove someone is not guilty of doing something wrong.
What constitutes a book? Today I'm talking about book length and your reading challenge.
It's Your Reading Journey Pt. 2
Day 332
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November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What constitutes a book? Today I'm talking about book length and your reading challenge.
💙📚 ⚔️ 333/365 Poems -- Untitled haiku
pea soup fog
ahead of me a revenant
who whistles
by Neal Whitman
pea soup fog
ahead of me a revenant
who whistles
by Neal Whitman
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
💙📚 ⚔️ 333/365 Poems -- Untitled haiku
pea soup fog
ahead of me a revenant
who whistles
by Neal Whitman
pea soup fog
ahead of me a revenant
who whistles
by Neal Whitman
Tip #4 It's Your Reading Journey Pt 1
Why you should decide for yourself how you define reading with a short digression about neurodiversity.
Why you should decide for yourself how you define reading with a short digression about neurodiversity.
It's Your Reading Journey Pt. 1
Day 331
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November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tip #4 It's Your Reading Journey Pt 1
Why you should decide for yourself how you define reading with a short digression about neurodiversity.
Why you should decide for yourself how you define reading with a short digression about neurodiversity.
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Word of the Day: Sustain - to provide what is needed to exist or continue
Word of the Day: Sustain - to provide what is needed to exist or continue
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Word of the Day: Sustain - to provide what is needed to exist or continue
Word of the Day: Sustain - to provide what is needed to exist or continue
💙📚 332/365 Poems -- When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/...
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon th...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
💙📚 332/365 Poems -- When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/...
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1/ Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor. She is the co-founder of the publisher Fourthwall Books and owns a bookstore called Edition.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor. She is the co-founder of the publisher Fourthwall Books and owns a bookstore called Edition.
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This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
Tip #3 Why you need a long TBR list.
Life is short and TBR lists are long
quote from Katja Millay
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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Tip #3 Why you need a long TBR list.
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Word of the Day: Cornucopia -- a fruit- and vegetable-filled horn-shaped container
Word of the Day: Cornucopia -- a fruit- and vegetable-filled horn-shaped container
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Word of the Day: Cornucopia -- a fruit- and vegetable-filled horn-shaped container
Word of the Day: Cornucopia -- a fruit- and vegetable-filled horn-shaped container
💙📚 331/365 Poems -- low flying owls by K. Meera strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
low flying owls
tomorrow when i have hardened, and your body has renewed.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💙📚 331/365 Poems -- low flying owls by K. Meera strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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1/ Tara Oi-kwan Teng (born August 17, 1988), is a Canadian former pageant winner. She was crowned Miss Canada 2011 and also Miss World Canada 2012. During her title reigns she was an advocate for human rights and spoke about human trafficking. #WomanToday
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Tara Oi-kwan Teng (born August 17, 1988), is a Canadian former pageant winner. She was crowned Miss Canada 2011 and also Miss World Canada 2012. During her title reigns she was an advocate for human rights and spoke about human trafficking. #WomanToday
Tip #2 on how to read more and enjoy it more.
The Chicken was Involved, but the Pig was Committed
Tracking your reading
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November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tip #2 on how to read more and enjoy it more.
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Word of the Day: unabashed -- unembarrassed about openly sharing strong feelings or opinions.
Word of the Day: unabashed -- unembarrassed about openly sharing strong feelings or opinions.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Word of the Day: unabashed -- unembarrassed about openly sharing strong feelings or opinions.
Word of the Day: unabashed -- unembarrassed about openly sharing strong feelings or opinions.
Sonnets from Hellas by Seamus Heaney www.theguardian.com/books/2001/a...
Sonnets from Hellas by Seamus Heaney
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November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sonnets from Hellas by Seamus Heaney www.theguardian.com/books/2001/a...
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1/ Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. #WomanToday
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. #WomanToday
📚💙 If you want to read more next year, I've got some tips for you. I'm on book #399 for 2025, so I know a couple things. Some are pretty common sense, and that's where we'll start. But I hope you'll come along for the ride-I might surprise you along the way.
Welcome to A Reading Journey
Day 327 of 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
📚💙 If you want to read more next year, I've got some tips for you. I'm on book #399 for 2025, so I know a couple things. Some are pretty common sense, and that's where we'll start. But I hope you'll come along for the ride-I might surprise you along the way.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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📚💙🦃 329/365 Poems -- Tyrell & the Timekeeper by Kaeli J Wishart #HappyThanksgiving to all the turkeys trying to stay safe from the executioners. mogginbogginsalmanac.substack.com/p/tyrell-and...
Tyrell & the Timekeeper
Although I’m not American, I know that Thanksgiving is just around the corner.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📚💙🦃 329/365 Poems -- Tyrell & the Timekeeper by Kaeli J Wishart #HappyThanksgiving to all the turkeys trying to stay safe from the executioners. mogginbogginsalmanac.substack.com/p/tyrell-and...
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1/ Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works. #WomanToday
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works. #WomanToday
Re-posting from Twitter for @merriam-webster.com : Word of the Day: amalgamate -- to unite two or more things into one.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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📚💙 328/365 Poems: The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43995/...
The Pains of Sleep
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With re...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📚💙 328/365 Poems: The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43995/...