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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦

Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦

@sunasak.bsky.social

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Blogger, Master Naturalist, birder, knitter, horse lover, dog mom of 5 in rural central Texas. Trying to be a good pagan Buddhist and live in the moment. Munching popcorn 🍿 waiting for the fall of civilization. 💙

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 25

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Confession: I love my turkey.

Of My Two Keys: Turkey and Donkey

Hey, not too much broke today, and though we have to wait for an air conditioning part, a convenient “cold” front came through, so sleeping won’t be too bad tonight. This leaves me with my observat…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Your mind can do weird stuff to you.

Am I Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get Me?

I’m not doing myself any favors by watching the news. And it’s really not a good idea to listen to friends’ conspiracy theories. I try to avoid them but they sneak in, leading to nightmares like I …

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 21

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A beautiful and uplifting tree book

Book Report: The Tree Collectors

This is the book I needed right now. I needed sweet stories of people who love trees and are willing to go to great lengths to show that love. I also needed simple but beautiful watercolors of tree…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 20

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Looking for Beauty and Kindness

I declared that today would be spent looking for beauty and kindness wherever I went. That started out early, since we wanted to leave for a camping weekend (at last) as early as possible. Beauty b…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Horsing around is much calmer these days.

Let’s talk about how great I am. No, that’s boring. Let’s talk about how my confidence has improved in my horsemanship. (Because there’s still some progress to be made in other areas.) One horse ac…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 17

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I have hints! Let’s cope together!

How Can You Cope in Today’s Troubled Times?

There are some practices and “mind tricks“ I use to stay on a level key while the world of people, politics, and ethics changes to something almost unrecognizable. Note that I am not describing how…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 16

I read this book. It is significant. It is insightful. Than you, Robert Reich.

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Book Report: Coming Up Short

Full disclosure: Robert Reich is the American I admire most. So it’s no surprise that I hoped to enjoy his new memoir, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America (2025). Yes. Punning is involved. He’s…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Today I write about sounds. That’s hard.

Yes, More Niceness, Bird Edition

I tried to write a post with some substance, but I’ve had a headache for two days and I couldn’t concentrate. So I’ll tell you what I enjoy lately. Bluebird – it’s blurry, so obviously by me.…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Trying to live in the moment.

Cheerful Moments

Ok! Cute things here we come! This morning I found where all the false foxgloves were hiding this year? And they were right next to a hawthorn tree with lots of fruit. Prairie False Foxgloves Agali…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 14

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I miss my mother’s love.

Mom, I Miss Her

Today my mom would have been 103, so unlike many of my friends, I never expected her to be around for me at my age. But since she has been gone for 40 years, I’ve missed her longer than I had her. …

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Being an American is hard. Birds are good.

This evening, Scissortail Flycatchers were dive-bombing into the pins and chattering away. They aren’t as graceful as the swallows, but it looks like they accomplished their mission. I never saw so…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Blaming the other side is a waste of time. Just stop shooting.

Here’s What I Think

As if it matters, other than to me. I think Americans should stop using their beloved guns to kill other people. Here she goes again. No one is listening, says the greatest Egret ever. It’s been ma…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 9

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I finally read this!

Book Report: Braiding Sweetgrass

People who know me well may find it odd that I only just finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2015). After all, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, it’s a Suna kind of boo…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 7

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My book report will come later, but I have sorta amusing rambles today.

I just finished reading the wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass, which somehow I hadn’t managed to read yet. No doubt there was a good reason I didn’t read it when I bought it, but of course I love…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 6

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I got through the day!

What did I do? I survived an overwhelming work week without losing my temper at anyone. I’m sure glad this week was only four work days! Flying away like these cattle egrets was very tempting! The …

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 5

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I confess to enjoying coloring books.

Regressing to Childhood?

Maybe. I was a bit too tired to do much after I finally finished a long work day, plus it was suddenly 100° outside after a break in the weather. Sunflower doesn’t care. Photo by Lee. So I sat in m…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 4

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No more energy drinks at night. Or ever.

Tonight I Chose Better

Better what? Better evening beverage. I grabbed one of Kathleen’s special drinks last night and enjoyed it. But it turns out to have secretly been an “energy drink.” Thus I got less sleep last nigh…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 3

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How can you be blue when you have dogs, horses, and butterflies?

Do I Have the Blues?

It looks like I do. I made a drink from one of Kathleen’s little flavor packets and ended up with the blues: blue drink, nails, hair, and glasses. I will point out that I had a brown shirt (with a …

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 2

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It’s dove season. Horses don’t mind.

Noisy Times in Rural Texas

What? You don’t know why it’s noisy here right now? Get out your Texas Parks and Wildlife hunting regulations booklet! Right there! Dove Season You see, it’s always a little blam-blammy on the firs…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Sep 1

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It rained. I played inside.

A Meteorological Respite

Ah. Today we got beautiful rain, over 2” but I won’t measure until the morning. It was another great day to read on the porch! So cozy and dry I was sorry to miss my horse lesson but we’ve reschedu…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Aug 31

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There’s also a self critique

Three Thoughts I Had

Are they all true truisms? You can decide. One. The best time to go to Costco on the weekend in a college town is during a home football game. Everyone but nerds, Goths, old hippies (us), and peopl…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Not a good day, mentally.

Trying to stay on an even keel these days is a challenge, isn’t it? No need to name all the reasons why, because you know the ones that affect us all, and we each have our own personal stresses, gr…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Aug 28

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My turkey is a year old! But my oldest hen passed away.

Fowl News: Good and Bad

Not much has been going on in poultry land these days. Only Connie has been laying, so we have an ample supply of very large eggs for our cooking. There were two today. I also realized it’s her bir…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Happy Dog Day

Dog Day Thoughts

I’m pretty wiped out from doing so much outside in the heat. I know Apache and I are both looking forward to the promised cold front. But today is National Dog Day in the US, so I’ll focus on the d…

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Suna K 🕊️💙 🇺🇦 @sunasak.bsky.social · Aug 23

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A new nature watcher was born today

Converting a Coworker

Today was lots of fun in the bird department, as lots of songbirds decided to let me see them. At last I truly believe that Orchard Orioles and Yelliwthroats live in my trees. There was also a Kest…

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