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VickiAddesso

@vickiaddessi.bsky.social

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picture-taker, writer-of-words, doodler & dabbler, shy-extrovert, joy-junkie, born-yesterday, and taking it all one moment at a time… 🤗💛✌️🙏🕊️

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · Nov 13

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 6h

I am sitting on my living room sofa looking out the window at infinity and eternity.

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 6h

“At some point” was years ago 🥺

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

At some point we might have to consider the fact that he might be mentally unstable.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

We live in the richest country in the world, and our billionaire president has to be forced by a court of law to feed our people.

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 7h

Portrait of a tree… my best friend…
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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 6d

Witches rock 💫

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

In case facts still matter

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 9d

Time to get to work… thankful for this view and the sunshine… I’ll be at my desk for some time… writing… hope you all get time to do work you love… make time… steal time… whether it’s to write or draw or dance or make music or to simply play… seize your moments… pay attention to the glimmers💫

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 11d

How do you go from words to poetry?

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Christina @just-wandering.bsky.social · 12d

I saw this leaf caught up as I was walking, and loved the striking red color against the tangle of branches.

#fallcolors #photography #photographersofbluesky #BCcanada #canada #nature #naturphotography

A bright red and yellow leaf caught in a tangle of branches.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

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We are all paying for this vanity project

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 12d

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13d

The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 12d

How does tearing down the White House to build a ballroom help the American people?

Explain it to me like I’m 5.

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 13d

Just got back from a walk through the neighborhood on this blustery🍂 day, sunshine and dark clouds then sunshine and dark clouds then sunshine and dark clouds — a perfect October afternoon — and look🤗, I ran into an old friend🤡

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 13d

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Rebecca S @grongar.bsky.social · 15d

On the streets of Vermont towns today, inspiring and funny signs everywhere. Lobster, shark, chicken, hippo, and Godzilla costumes. Peaceful chanting, talking, honking, waving, dogs and bikes and babies and us old folks singing Pete Seeger tunes. Did this heart good. Thank you to everyone out there!

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 13d

That house does not belong to him

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VickiAddesso @vickiaddessi.bsky.social · 13d

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