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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. A reminder of a small part of what’s at stake

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Solidarity @unheardnomore.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is not the time in the history of our nation to be a bystander. . .

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 3h

This is gorgeous, thank you. It lifted my spirits. 👏🏼🫶🏼🙏🏼

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 4h

#art Andy English
#peace #poem Wendell Berry

#resist

heron reflects,
reflected
in rippled water

grayscale illustration

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 7h

Yay, go Rick. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 7h

I’m so glad 🫶🏼

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 7h

#NoKingsDay, Sat, #October18th Should Also Be:

A DAY OFF FOR ALL WOMEN

#WomensDayOff #October18

—Let’s take a moment to think about Iceland, October 24, 1975 (see YouTube video below)

—Let’s remember the Women’s March of January 21, 2017

#WomenProtest #NoWorkOct18

youtu.be/e9OsIj32w7U?...

The day women shut down Iceland

YouTube video by Vox

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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 15h

during college i learned of the Bread and Puppet Theater (a hour or so up the road from Hanover and a summer visitor)

i get strength from the inflatable costumes 🎈🐸
the dolls 🏳️‍⚧️ who continue to dance and sway against so much
the bread, the puppets, the signs

joy or laughter feed courage

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 15h

I hope we can find this in our lives. We definitely need something to help us through. #Joy

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 15h

The Peace of Wild Things
—Wendell Berry

#Poetry #SmallPoemSunday

May all find a moment of peace in nature today. At minimum go stand below a tree and look up toward the sky for a full minute. #Peace

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 15h

What Kind of Times Are These
#poem by Adrienne Rich

Not so small #smallpoemSunday
#Poetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...

What Kind of Times Are These

I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its ...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 16h

We are seeing #heartbreaking images from the #streets in the country previously known as the U.S.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson #quote

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

—Nelson Mandela #quote

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Debora Dale @deboradale.bsky.social · 15d

Gorgeous. Tranquil. Peaceful.
#Portland

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15d

War-ravaged Portland

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Debora Dale @deboradale.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 16h

We are seeing #heartbreaking images from the #streets in the country previously known as the U.S.

🦋

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson #quote

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

—Nelson Mandela #quote

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 4d

tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 9, 2025

this week’s prompt:

message

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America

Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 2d

I was expecting
a message but instead
I got a note
written in ink
pushed through my door

#tankathursday (message)
#tanka
#micropoetry

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 16h

Great images… great tanka. ✏️👏🏼

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 2d

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

That would be Robert Landsburg you're thinking of.

He was west of the mountain when it erupted and was overcome by the pyroclastic density flow within minutes.

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · Jun 5

#MSH45 | June 4, 1980
Seventeen days after the eruption, the 304th Air Force Reserve found Robert Landsburg three miles west of Mount St. Helens. In his ash-covered bag: camera, film, and ID—all shielded.

Published in National Geographic in 1981, his photos became iconic records of the eruption.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 4d

each poem
a beacon flashing
a message
into the darkness
of the world’s long night

By M. Kei

#tanka #5lines #tankapoem #poetry

#TankaThursday message

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