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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It happened. My son asked me what colors were like when I was little. “Did you have them or did you live in black and white?”
Time for bed.
Time for bed.
August 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It happened. My son asked me what colors were like when I was little. “Did you have them or did you live in black and white?”
Time for bed.
Time for bed.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
- Bob Dylan
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
- Bob Dylan
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
- Bob Dylan
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
- Bob Dylan
Morning coffee pondering:
If you look at a photograph with words flowing through your head, have you really LOOKED at the photograph?
Which led to:
If you look at the world with words flowing thru your head have you really looked at the world? Or only at your own idea of things?
If you look at a photograph with words flowing through your head, have you really LOOKED at the photograph?
Which led to:
If you look at the world with words flowing thru your head have you really looked at the world? Or only at your own idea of things?
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Morning coffee pondering:
If you look at a photograph with words flowing through your head, have you really LOOKED at the photograph?
Which led to:
If you look at the world with words flowing thru your head have you really looked at the world? Or only at your own idea of things?
If you look at a photograph with words flowing through your head, have you really LOOKED at the photograph?
Which led to:
If you look at the world with words flowing thru your head have you really looked at the world? Or only at your own idea of things?
Estimate of the posts I've typed and pondered and then deleted without sending: Many hundreds.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Estimate of the posts I've typed and pondered and then deleted without sending: Many hundreds.
I have long wondered if you write differently on the same topic if you use pen and paper vs a typewriter vs a computer keyboard.
I don't know the answer but suspect it is yes, yes you do.
I don't know the answer but suspect it is yes, yes you do.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I have long wondered if you write differently on the same topic if you use pen and paper vs a typewriter vs a computer keyboard.
I don't know the answer but suspect it is yes, yes you do.
I don't know the answer but suspect it is yes, yes you do.
Some actors have whatever it is that you want to stop and watch them even if you're just passing by the TV and catch a scene they're in. Lauren Bacall is one of those for me. Tonight I happened to catch her deliver this great line, as she does, one I've not heard before. . .
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Some actors have whatever it is that you want to stop and watch them even if you're just passing by the TV and catch a scene they're in. Lauren Bacall is one of those for me. Tonight I happened to catch her deliver this great line, as she does, one I've not heard before. . .
He was lost in starlit contemplation of a passage...where a Chinese proverb wondered how it is that a bird knows her purpose in life, how & where & when to build her nest, but man...wisest among all creatures, doesn't know his purpose in life.
-Sonny Brewer, The Poet of Tolstoy Park
#SundaySentence
-Sonny Brewer, The Poet of Tolstoy Park
#SundaySentence
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
He was lost in starlit contemplation of a passage...where a Chinese proverb wondered how it is that a bird knows her purpose in life, how & where & when to build her nest, but man...wisest among all creatures, doesn't know his purpose in life.
-Sonny Brewer, The Poet of Tolstoy Park
#SundaySentence
-Sonny Brewer, The Poet of Tolstoy Park
#SundaySentence
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Jack Kerouac
The original scroll version of 'On The Road'
*1957
The original scroll version of 'On The Road'
*1957
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Jack Kerouac
The original scroll version of 'On The Road'
*1957
The original scroll version of 'On The Road'
*1957
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We use ranked choice in all of our elections, local and national, in Ireland. Although the specific system used here is called PR-STV (Proportional Representation with a Single Transferable Vote).
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We use ranked choice in all of our elections, local and national, in Ireland. Although the specific system used here is called PR-STV (Proportional Representation with a Single Transferable Vote).
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Ranked-choice voting is set to be used for the first time in D.C. during the 2026 election cycle — as early as the June primary.
But both critics and proponents question whether the D.C. Board of Elections is ready to educate voters on the process, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
But both critics and proponents question whether the D.C. Board of Elections is ready to educate voters on the process, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Is D.C. ready for ranked-choice voting?
Educating voters will be a big task ahead of the 2026 local elections.
51st.news
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ranked-choice voting is set to be used for the first time in D.C. during the 2026 election cycle — as early as the June primary.
But both critics and proponents question whether the D.C. Board of Elections is ready to educate voters on the process, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
But both critics and proponents question whether the D.C. Board of Elections is ready to educate voters on the process, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
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I was very fortunate to be asked to paint this portrait of 'Aunt Polly ' for the final series of Peaky Blinders. I love being asked to do things like this it was so exciting to see it on TV.
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I was very fortunate to be asked to paint this portrait of 'Aunt Polly ' for the final series of Peaky Blinders. I love being asked to do things like this it was so exciting to see it on TV.
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
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To the Future 2020 oil on canvas.
A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.
A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.
November 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
To the Future 2020 oil on canvas.
A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.
A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.
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Four Fifty Five
Wilf Perreault
2022
Wilf Perreault
2022
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Four Fifty Five
Wilf Perreault
2022
Wilf Perreault
2022
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Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change
July 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change
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Sound is never permanent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sound is never permanent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
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My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes and villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.
- JR Moehringer, The Tender Bar, A Memoir
#sundaysentence
- JR Moehringer, The Tender Bar, A Memoir
#sundaysentence
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes and villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.
- JR Moehringer, The Tender Bar, A Memoir
#sundaysentence
- JR Moehringer, The Tender Bar, A Memoir
#sundaysentence
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sometimes it is about 'deep talks' but that's for more intimate situations with close friends
the rest is fairly accurate for public and more casual scenarios
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sometimes it is about 'deep talks' but that's for more intimate situations with close friends
the rest is fairly accurate for public and more casual scenarios
ㅤ
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
ㅤ
sometimes it is about 'deep talks' but that's for more intimate situations with close friends
the rest is fairly accurate for public and more casual scenarios
ㅤ
sometimes it is about 'deep talks' but that's for more intimate situations with close friends
the rest is fairly accurate for public and more casual scenarios
ㅤ
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So many of the responses to last night's thread about my PBS interview have been devastating. These are the realities—full-time workers sleeping in cars and cargo vans, reduced to mapping out "safe parking lots"—that countless people are forced to live through right now.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So many of the responses to last night's thread about my PBS interview have been devastating. These are the realities—full-time workers sleeping in cars and cargo vans, reduced to mapping out "safe parking lots"—that countless people are forced to live through right now.
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🌟 Australia will be the first nation to ban social media accounts for any child or teen under the age of 16. 🥳 👏🏻
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🌟 Australia will be the first nation to ban social media accounts for any child or teen under the age of 16. 🥳 👏🏻
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
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Remembering Madeleine L'Engle on her birthday 🎂
📷 Sigrid Estrada
"When I have something to say which I think is going to be too difficult for adults, I write a book for children."
📷 Sigrid Estrada
"When I have something to say which I think is going to be too difficult for adults, I write a book for children."
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Remembering Madeleine L'Engle on her birthday 🎂
📷 Sigrid Estrada
"When I have something to say which I think is going to be too difficult for adults, I write a book for children."
📷 Sigrid Estrada
"When I have something to say which I think is going to be too difficult for adults, I write a book for children."
It is a good day. . . . to be far from the madding crowd.
Unless you like that sort of thing.
Unless you like that sort of thing.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It is a good day. . . . to be far from the madding crowd.
Unless you like that sort of thing.
Unless you like that sort of thing.
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration