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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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

This Is Fascism

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 8h

Gorgeous writing.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 9h

#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 · 19h

Thank you for your kind words.

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

#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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 2d

#Verve

its absence haunts
like death's memory

and we turn away,
seek substitute in pleasure

rather than hear

#vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing my humble poem.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

That's deeply kind. Thank you.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

#Libertine

yes, I know
you’re married

but let me tempt you
not to touch,
but toward awakening

where language hums,
verses caress,
singing down into hidden wells
you once believed forgotten

until the truth of you
returns,
and softly,
blushes

#vss365

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 4d

Listen

this work we do,
this living each day

is sacred—

a space
found in each other’s hearts

let go of fixing,
let go of doing

just be,
open to change

if it doesn’t flow from here,
it will not last

#Poetry

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4d

Justice department folks undermining justice. GOP women setting back women. "Christians" corrupting christianity. FBI ruining intelligence/public safety. Defense officials being offensive. Health department destroying our health. Education officials ruining education. This is Trump & the GOP.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 4d

#Ash

he nudges me

it is morning, after all
time to be fed
not dither over poems

black-grey fur slides
against my arm,
the color of burnt carbon

reminding me of endings—
of fire,
and what we may become

#vss365

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 5d

we so misunderstand
spirituality—

measuring it
in hours of prayer

rather than
degrees of aliveness

#poetry

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 5d

#Clash

the thing is
all of us think we're good

it's just that some
hold rightness so tightly

they'll starve children
to prove it

and this
we must oppose

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 5d

Speak Truth....like only talk show hosts SEEM TO DO NOW....

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