Tomás Murray
@tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Lean left • Tom is fine • Far from the west of Ireland now • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, paintings, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Sylvia most of all
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My wife, Sylvia, died this morning. 💔
“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.
You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”
“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.
You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
C. S. Lewis, Writer, Academic, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Belfast
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
C. S. Lewis, Writer, Academic, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Belfast
It’s Billy’s birthday tomorrow.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s Billy’s birthday tomorrow.
Reposted by Tomás Murray
A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
This is somewhat of a pointless post. I wandered out today (yes, I know it’s Black Friday but I had to get out). I steered clear of the malls. Spent most of the day browsing in book & wine stores tbh. But I thought @patburke.bsky.social—or, more precisely, the smaller Burkes—might like these.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is somewhat of a pointless post. I wandered out today (yes, I know it’s Black Friday but I had to get out). I steered clear of the malls. Spent most of the day browsing in book & wine stores tbh. But I thought @patburke.bsky.social—or, more precisely, the smaller Burkes—might like these.
Reposted by Tomás Murray
This panel from 1985 never gets old.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This panel from 1985 never gets old.
Tripped across this while looking for something else.
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Tripped across this while looking for something else.
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
Today is William Blake’s birthday.
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today is William Blake’s birthday.
“The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home; and, like a happy and good man, when it cannot sing it yells. It is lyric and exclamatory, from the first exclamatory words of it. It is strictly a Christmas Carol.”
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home; and, like a happy and good man, when it cannot sing it yells. It is lyric and exclamatory, from the first exclamatory words of it. It is strictly a Christmas Carol.”
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
It’s Nancy’s birthday tomorrow.
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s Nancy’s birthday tomorrow.
It’s Gloria’s birthday tomorrow.
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s Gloria’s birthday tomorrow.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
(from ‘The Search’)
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
(from ‘The Search’)
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
Stanley Spencer’s ‘Roy’ (c. 1907), Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Stanley Spencer’s ‘Roy’ (c. 1907), Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire
Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you are blessed with good company.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you are blessed with good company.
It’s James’s birthday tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s James’s birthday tomorrow.
He was a giant.
Remembering Charles Schulz on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ted Streshinsky
"All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away."
- Sparky
Bleak, but fair.
📷 Ted Streshinsky
"All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away."
- Sparky
Bleak, but fair.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
He was a giant.
(from ‘There’s Nothing Like the Sun’)
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
(from ‘There’s Nothing Like the Sun’)
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
It’s Cyril’s birthday tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s Cyril’s birthday tomorrow.
It’s Charles’s birthday tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s Charles’s birthday tomorrow.
Reposted by Tomás Murray
“About half-past three at the end of November a sea-fog came up over the edge of the cliff and, mounting the plate-glass windows, filled the Metropole ballroom with premature twilight.”
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
January 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“About half-past three at the end of November a sea-fog came up over the edge of the cliff and, mounting the plate-glass windows, filled the Metropole ballroom with premature twilight.”
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
Paul Desmond, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in San Francisco, California
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Paul Desmond, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in San Francisco, California
Jessie Royce Landis, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in Chicago
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Jessie Royce Landis, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in Chicago
Nat Adderley, Jazz Trumpeter, Cornetist, #BornOnThisDay in 1931, in Tampa, Florida
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Nat Adderley, Jazz Trumpeter, Cornetist, #BornOnThisDay in 1931, in Tampa, Florida