Robert Hove
@roberthove.bsky.social
🦋 Photography, art, poetry, jazz, servant to cats, tea, cooking, Norwegian-American🇳🇴, Michigander. #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousPeoplesRights 🟧 #LGBTQ Ally🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 #UglyDogs #LansingMI I’m a Buddhist but not a very good one. 🤷🏻♂️ NO DMs. 🕊️
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Robert Hove
@roberthove.bsky.social
· May 16
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
-Buddha
-Buddha
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Right after giving us the lexicon for naming the living world, Carl Linnaeus decided to create a flower clock to tell the time of day by the bloom of different flowers www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/01/l...
Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in his 1964 classic Games People Play. Four centuries earlie…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Right after giving us the lexicon for naming the living world, Carl Linnaeus decided to create a flower clock to tell the time of day by the bloom of different flowers www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/01/l...
Looks pretty but we had to cancel plans to visit my son & DiL in Grand Rapids today- we got about 4 inches & they got about 6. My son is a professional chef & had a nice lunch planned for us.
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Looks pretty but we had to cancel plans to visit my son & DiL in Grand Rapids today- we got about 4 inches & they got about 6. My son is a professional chef & had a nice lunch planned for us.
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Simone de Beauvoir on love and friendship — simply superb: www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/11/s...
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most heali…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Simone de Beauvoir on love and friendship — simply superb: www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/11/s...
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This!! Your privacy around information matters!
I think this is a really important thing about libraries that many people may not realize. not only not tracking, but ideally really making an effort to maintain privacy on hold shelves as well. Corporations and many government entities are attacking our privacy; support libraries in preserving it.
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This!! Your privacy around information matters!
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At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – Patti Smith on art and life, Neruda's staggering (un)breakup poem, Kahlil Gibran's recipe for reaching our spiritual perfection as a species: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – Patti Smith on art and life, Neruda's staggering (un)breakup poem, Kahlil Gibran's recipe for reaching our spiritual perfection as a species: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
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My dear mom was born December 7, 1933. She was all about family, having extended gatherings for any reason. She like to decorate for Christmas, even the tree only the deer could see. She worked to help provide for my brother and me. I love and miss you Mom.❤️
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My dear mom was born December 7, 1933. She was all about family, having extended gatherings for any reason. She like to decorate for Christmas, even the tree only the deer could see. She worked to help provide for my brother and me. I love and miss you Mom.❤️
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'Those Winter Sundays'
by Robert Hayden
by Robert Hayden
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
'Those Winter Sundays'
by Robert Hayden
by Robert Hayden
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Heceta Head #Lighthouse sits 206 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The iconic 56-foot tower make it one of the most photographed on the #Oregon #Coast. Its original Fresnel light was first illuminated in 1894, and can be seen 21 miles from land.
#ocean #pacific #waves #travel #vacation #history #park
#ocean #pacific #waves #travel #vacation #history #park
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Morning tea: an exquisite Dingfang Meiren, oolong from Taiwan, aka Eastern Beauty. Roses, muscat grapes, peaches, apricot jam, geraniums & cherries. Gives a warm & settling feeling.
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Morning tea: an exquisite Dingfang Meiren, oolong from Taiwan, aka Eastern Beauty. Roses, muscat grapes, peaches, apricot jam, geraniums & cherries. Gives a warm & settling feeling.
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
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Best part of my day.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Best part of my day.
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This is on the gop.
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is on the gop.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”
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December 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
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Some Los Angeles residents are taking to the streets, paint buckets in hand, to create their own safety infrastructure –– daring the city to remove it. reasonstobecheerful.world/los-angeles-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Some Los Angeles residents are taking to the streets, paint buckets in hand, to create their own safety infrastructure –– daring the city to remove it. reasonstobecheerful.world/los-angeles-...
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In 1956, Arthur Kornberg isolated DNA polymerase I, revealing how cells faithfully copy genetic information and laying key groundwork for modern molecular biology and biotechnology. #ScienceHistory
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In 1956, Arthur Kornberg isolated DNA polymerase I, revealing how cells faithfully copy genetic information and laying key groundwork for modern molecular biology and biotechnology. #ScienceHistory
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I'm just going to post this song as often as possible until it's sweeping the nation. I want to hear this playing in supermarkets.
The Coup - "The Guillotine"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm just going to post this song as often as possible until it's sweeping the nation. I want to hear this playing in supermarkets.
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
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San Francisco snapshots.
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
San Francisco snapshots.
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I'll go one step further! Anyone who donates will be taken off my list! 🤣
Just sent Kat a lil holiday cheer! We are only a lil over 1k away from the goal. Anyone like to join me in sending her some holiday vibes?
#uglydogs
#uglydogs
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'll go one step further! Anyone who donates will be taken off my list! 🤣
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Just a lil over $800 to go!
Just sent Kat a lil holiday cheer! We are only a lil over 1k away from the goal. Anyone like to join me in sending her some holiday vibes?
#uglydogs
#uglydogs
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Just a lil over $800 to go!
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"Dear visitors, what largesse have you given, not only in departing, but in coming, that we might learn to prize your absence, wallow the more exquisitely in the leisure of your not-being."
For one of the last sane down days before the mayhem of the holidays, delightful century-old ode to the pleasure of being left alone www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/13/r...
The Pleasure of Being Left Alone
“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Dear visitors, what largesse have you given, not only in departing, but in coming, that we might learn to prize your absence, wallow the more exquisitely in the leisure of your not-being."
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all."
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers
“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”
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December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all."
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
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Be careful on the roads #WestMichigan folks. My neighbor on the corner has already had 2 cars slide off into his yard this morning.
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Be careful on the roads #WestMichigan folks. My neighbor on the corner has already had 2 cars slide off into his yard this morning.