Sam
@sammyzorba.bsky.social
Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography, especially B&W film, painting, drawing. Baseball.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting about life.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting about life.
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Remembering Joe DiMaggio on his birthday 🎂
📷 Editta Sherman, 1955
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base."
- Jimmy Breslin
📷 Editta Sherman, 1955
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base."
- Jimmy Breslin
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Remembering Joe DiMaggio on his birthday 🎂
📷 Editta Sherman, 1955
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base."
- Jimmy Breslin
📷 Editta Sherman, 1955
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base."
- Jimmy Breslin
It's hard to ask Google a question that someone else hasn't already asked. I just asked google if eating too many... and the rest of the sentence autofilled my question.
Question: If you eat too many carrots can it turn your skin orange?
A: Yes it can, about 10 medium carrots a day for 3 weeks.
Question: If you eat too many carrots can it turn your skin orange?
A: Yes it can, about 10 medium carrots a day for 3 weeks.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's hard to ask Google a question that someone else hasn't already asked. I just asked google if eating too many... and the rest of the sentence autofilled my question.
Question: If you eat too many carrots can it turn your skin orange?
A: Yes it can, about 10 medium carrots a day for 3 weeks.
Question: If you eat too many carrots can it turn your skin orange?
A: Yes it can, about 10 medium carrots a day for 3 weeks.
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“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
Albert Camus, The fall.
Albert Camus, The fall.
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
Albert Camus, The fall.
Albert Camus, The fall.
Baudelaire also wrote about a condition now called synesthesia, in which the senses can be blended so that a person hears color, or perhaps sees music.
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Baudelaire also wrote about a condition now called synesthesia, in which the senses can be blended so that a person hears color, or perhaps sees music.
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
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Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
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oak tree above highway
July 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
oak tree above highway
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I painted a bigger-than-life panther. 💙
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I painted a bigger-than-life panther. 💙
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Sometimes I build Time Machines.…
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Sometimes I build Time Machines.…
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Whenever someone mocks “science for science’s sake”, I point them to discoveries like this one — which literally emerged from looking at common dirt.
Seeking knowledge is a process and an ethos.
The wider our horizons, the more we can see.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Seeking knowledge is a process and an ethos.
The wider our horizons, the more we can see.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It ...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Whenever someone mocks “science for science’s sake”, I point them to discoveries like this one — which literally emerged from looking at common dirt.
Seeking knowledge is a process and an ethos.
The wider our horizons, the more we can see.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Seeking knowledge is a process and an ethos.
The wider our horizons, the more we can see.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Hyperphantasics tend to spend more time daydreaming than the average person...are more prone to...regret, longing & nostalgia; they experience greater anxiety and greater empathy than most.
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hyperphantasics tend to spend more time daydreaming than the average person...are more prone to...regret, longing & nostalgia; they experience greater anxiety and greater empathy than most.
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World
#SundaySentence
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The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820
Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago
Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago
Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820
Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago
Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago
Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
Within ten feet of me, anywhere on earth, is a lifetime of work.
- Well, google does not confirm this but I first heard this quote ascribed to, of all people, Ansel Adams. I like to believe he said it.
#quotes-I-repeat-often
- Well, google does not confirm this but I first heard this quote ascribed to, of all people, Ansel Adams. I like to believe he said it.
#quotes-I-repeat-often
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Within ten feet of me, anywhere on earth, is a lifetime of work.
- Well, google does not confirm this but I first heard this quote ascribed to, of all people, Ansel Adams. I like to believe he said it.
#quotes-I-repeat-often
- Well, google does not confirm this but I first heard this quote ascribed to, of all people, Ansel Adams. I like to believe he said it.
#quotes-I-repeat-often
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'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
Noise-maker, noise-maker
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
- John Prine, Dear Abby
#song-lyrics-that-keep-coming-back-to-me
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
- John Prine, Dear Abby
#song-lyrics-that-keep-coming-back-to-me
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Noise-maker, noise-maker
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
- John Prine, Dear Abby
#song-lyrics-that-keep-coming-back-to-me
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
- John Prine, Dear Abby
#song-lyrics-that-keep-coming-back-to-me
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Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
The walls have ears and the sky has eyes.
- Steve Earle
- Steve Earle
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The walls have ears and the sky has eyes.
- Steve Earle
- Steve Earle
For those attuned to synchronicity and its possible significance, this song is exactly what I was listening to when I saw this post.
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
For those attuned to synchronicity and its possible significance, this song is exactly what I was listening to when I saw this post.
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County Courthouses, 1976. William Clift.
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
County Courthouses, 1976. William Clift.
Surely you too have noticed that there is no tuba in country music.
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Surely you too have noticed that there is no tuba in country music.
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Wooooooooow!!
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Wooooooooow!!
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Northern Lights in Lanesboro, MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Northern Lights in Lanesboro, MN
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another American friend broke a whole limb while in Paris. she needed medical care, obviously, x-rays, etc. was told—very gravely—that she’d have to pay 32 euros for the whole thing. 32 euros for all of it!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
another American friend broke a whole limb while in Paris. she needed medical care, obviously, x-rays, etc. was told—very gravely—that she’d have to pay 32 euros for the whole thing. 32 euros for all of it!!!!
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Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents.
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents.
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪