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@elizjchurch.bsky.social

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Novels: The Atomic Weight of Love, All the Beautiful Girls. No longer writing for publication, but instead living. Loves: nature, books, rescue pit bulls, Scotland, history, old churches, archeology. I want beauty. And peace.

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elizjchurch.bsky.social @elizjchurch.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing “sporting” about this.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, & anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story -
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind...

~ Mary Oliver

#Art, Kawase Hasui

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Pennyjs @pennyjs.bsky.social · 3d

A milkweed seed waited for its moment in the sun to venture out into the world.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 3d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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elizjchurch.bsky.social @elizjchurch.bsky.social · 3d

What a gorgeous heart you have! Look at what you’ve accomplished—-hurrah for all of the lives you’ll change. A privilege to watch.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 8d

“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.”

– Gore Vidal, born 100 years ago today #botd

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 9d

“There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.” — Rod Serling

THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted #OTD in 1959.

Rod Serling on the set of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

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Cassie Premo Steele @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · 9d

What if
The oasis
We dream of
Is still
Here
Under all
Our fear
That ricochets
Like bullets
Across the
Tall grass
Prairie
And despite
The dangers
We make
And face
The buffalo
Still stomp
Remembering
The rhythm
We used to hear

#vss365 #oasis

THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE PRESERVE
You stand at the south edge of the largest unplowed, protected tract which remains of the 142 million acres of tallgrass prairie grassland that once stretched from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, less than ten percent still exists, found mostly in the Flint and Osage Hill regions of Kansas and Oklahoma.
In an increasingly crowded and noisy world, what you see is an oasis of space and silence. Here you can experience the same beautiful vistas that greeted the earliest human hunters and gatherers many thousands of years ago.
This area is indeed a rational treasure. Please treat it with respect.
For additional information about this preserve and its unique history, visit the preserve headquarters gift shop and nature room, another ten miles north on this road. This preserve is owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy, a private, nonprofit organization.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 10d

Paula Modersohn-
Becker.

“I am Me, and I hope to become Me more and more,” she wrote in a letter to her close friend Rainer Maria Rilke, following her split from her husband Otto Modersohn.

Farmers Wife, Seated.
1899.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing in the world pleases her so well as solitude. She is happiest alone in the country. She loves rambling alone in her woods. She loves going out by herself at night. She loves hiding from callers. She loves walking among her trees & musing.

~ Virginia Woolf

#Photography

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elizjchurch.bsky.social @elizjchurch.bsky.social · 10d

The absolute best writing I’ve read on the Vietnam war. Brilliant.

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E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 10d

JANE!!

Photo by Hugo Van Lawick, Getty Images

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 13d

Staircase of the Petit Palais, Paris

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 16d

First light catching the top of the Sliabh Liag cliffs.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19d

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20d

Julia Lucey,
Squirrel on the red day, 2020,
US artist & #printmaker who combines aquatint, etching collage and acrylic
#WomensArt #Autumn

Print and mixed media art featuring a close-up of a squirrel in the branches of a tree with red leaves against a red background

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20d

#Streetart by Erik Berglin #art

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elizjchurch.bsky.social @elizjchurch.bsky.social · 20d

Magnificent! You gave me a bit of heart’s ease. Thank you.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 25d

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27d

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

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