you claim it's mental health
yet cut resources
you say it's medication
yet raise prices
you say it's psychiatric
yet ignore science
you say it's not the guns
yet readily make available

it's the guns, idiot
bullets don't spray themselves

#itstheguns #ItsTheGuns #guns

it's day

in ernest
he wouldn't say good morning
it wasn't always good
for him
he wouldn't assume it was good
for others
he would seek to greet others
in kindness

it's day

#mydutchhobbit

Slope report
#danielsslope #californianativeplants

protecting the still
thru of chorus of sobs & songs
sunflowers greet dawn

#danielsday

earth day is human day

we care for the earth
as we care for others
a mirrored reflection

from dust we came
it's dust we breathe
and to dust we'll go

earth day is human day

#earthday

rip my son
conserver of the earth

It's #stingingnettle season on #danielsslope
Ever try stinging nettle tea?
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#CAnativeplants #nativeplants

ascending
amidst trees
and rustic labels
babbling thoughts still
breath labors
mud layers
i push upwards
seeking your presence

descending
the loneliness of the trail overwhelms
you did not come
you did not come
the games a mind plays
after one's child
is felled as trees
on a mountain

#standwithukraine

4:30am
drink a warm cuppa
in calm silence
witness
a paint splashed sunrise
peak over the foothills
illuminating
budding sunflowers
eliminating
not only night
but a dark-drenched world -
for a moment

#livingforthemomentsbetween

I couldn't make it, so the daughter is representing
#50501movement #nokings #50protests50states1day

to the slope i go
alone
tendering sagebrush
golden bush and sage
plucking
pulling
pruning
collecting trash tossed
from careless pedestrians

will you join me?

i rise and search
the sky
hoping

there you are
fluttering fiery and free
inspecting

now gone

i tender again
you met me at your slope

rippled rustling
it cautiously rappels the bobbing tightrope
clamps a dense guava
double its size into its teeth
leaps onto a wall
drops it onto the grass
retrieves it
drops it
retrieves it
climbs backwards up the wall
and scurries away with its prize
brava #squirrel

#livingforthemomentsbetween

This is my first cover reveal on Bluesky! A new era.

TOVE is a young chapter book with full, gorgeous color illustrations by Julie Benbassat. Out Oct 14 with Candlewick Press.

#KidLit

it's like receiving a gift from the elves when discovering something of my son that was buried under yrs of digital docs during tech & device changes

they're all we have left of him but we have them

today's tonic of light in the dark
"March of the Thunder Fairies" music comp live recording

#DPK

tossing in memory loops
as i often do
i hear it
not a destructive force
nor a theatrical tune
but an unobtrusive
gentle whispering
then steady nourishing
rain

barefoot
i set out buckets
to collect each precious drop
inhaling delicious air

swaddled in quilts
restless no more
i sleep

#CARain

#RingsofPower S1✔️
Beautifully shot. Creative choices, esp when only based on appendices, are needed, but as a #Tolkien & Jackson #LOR fan, Gandalf an age early & a Macbeth-ish scifi element was too much. Original? It became a game of "name that Jackson scene or dialogue." Still, giving S2 a shot.

I wrote about a Bechdel-like test that can help us consistently represent climate reality in kids book, because climate change is our new normal, and Earth’s youngest readers will never know world without it. Would love if you take a look.

Thanks for having me, SLJ.
www.slj.com/story/a-kid-...

Introduce yourself further with four of your favorite TV & Streaming scenes of all time
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Introduce yourself with four of your favorite movie scenes of all time
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