Andrew Varnon
@andrew-varnon.bsky.social
Middle-aged adventurer of the ordinary. #GreenfieldMA #BeerBaseballAndTheBible #BigMessyAmerica #Tennis #PublicSchools Neurodiversity & Sexual Assault awareness. Poet & Essayist. ArtSpace board member. Check out my #Varticles (Varnon + Articles, get it?)
Two pots I made in my class at ArtSpace. It was a joy to get my fingers on the clay, but I still have a lot to learn.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Two pots I made in my class at ArtSpace. It was a joy to get my fingers on the clay, but I still have a lot to learn.
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Actually, the really cool part was walking around town with the parade. We ran into this guy making music on the sidewalk.
September 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Actually, the really cool part was walking around town with the parade. We ran into this guy making music on the sidewalk.
I gave a reading at ArtSpace in Greenfield last night as part of the Prose Parade, organized by Looky Here. It was pretty cool!
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I gave a reading at ArtSpace in Greenfield last night as part of the Prose Parade, organized by Looky Here. It was pretty cool!
Cool video! I went to Marion this summer.
September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Cool video! I went to Marion this summer.
I went to Marion this summer. Because I had followed their #StrongTowns competition run — because I had entered my own city, #GreenfieldMA into the competition. 2/
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I went to Marion this summer. Because I had followed their #StrongTowns competition run — because I had entered my own city, #GreenfieldMA into the competition. 2/
We were talking about what America means, which makes me think about Louis Menand's book "The Free World." Many reviews talk about the book as flawed, as if it could not have been. But I admire the effort to try to sum it all up.
September 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We were talking about what America means, which makes me think about Louis Menand's book "The Free World." Many reviews talk about the book as flawed, as if it could not have been. But I admire the effort to try to sum it all up.
I have a cousin who lives in rural Ohio. He posted on IG a meme about the “intolerant left.” And I decided to reply to him, because it’s the most genuine way I can take action and express myself in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I have a cousin who lives in rural Ohio. He posted on IG a meme about the “intolerant left.” And I decided to reply to him, because it’s the most genuine way I can take action and express myself in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
I like the idea of a social reading site, but I haven’t actually used one much.
September 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I like the idea of a social reading site, but I haven’t actually used one much.
I just finished this book, “Two Coots in a Canoe.” It’s an account of a 400+ mile trip down the whole length of the Connecticut River, from the lakes of Northern New Hampshire to the Long Island Sound. 🧵
September 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I just finished this book, “Two Coots in a Canoe.” It’s an account of a 400+ mile trip down the whole length of the Connecticut River, from the lakes of Northern New Hampshire to the Long Island Sound. 🧵
“The most important object of education is for the student to come to ‘feel like the master of her own thinking.’”
September 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“The most important object of education is for the student to come to ‘feel like the master of her own thinking.’”
This woman, presumably a teacher, talks about reading Thoreau with her students and how they all think he’s a weirdo, living in a cabin in the woods. “Silverware makes you feel good,” they tell her. 3/
August 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This woman, presumably a teacher, talks about reading Thoreau with her students and how they all think he’s a weirdo, living in a cabin in the woods. “Silverware makes you feel good,” they tell her. 3/
I saw this pottery candelabra in a cemetery in Put Corners, NY, a historic neighborhood in New Paltz.
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I saw this pottery candelabra in a cemetery in Put Corners, NY, a historic neighborhood in New Paltz.
“The ‘thin blue line’ marks and defends the underlying boundary between plenty and poverty…” — Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart 💔 of America 🇺🇸, p. 450
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The ‘thin blue line’ marks and defends the underlying boundary between plenty and poverty…” — Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart 💔 of America 🇺🇸, p. 450
These are abandoned piers of a railroad bridge across the Connecticut River. There are ruins of an industrial age. It reminds me of the scene in LotR when the fellowship passes the Argonath statues of the kings of Gondor. youtu.be/SlLC1kCH1ps?...
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
These are abandoned piers of a railroad bridge across the Connecticut River. There are ruins of an industrial age. It reminds me of the scene in LotR when the fellowship passes the Argonath statues of the kings of Gondor. youtu.be/SlLC1kCH1ps?...
Self portrait with journal and lake.
August 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Self portrait with journal and lake.
We walked around Wiarton yesterday. I saw this article, “How to Save Canada”🇨🇦 in The Walrus. thewalrus.ca
August 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We walked around Wiarton yesterday. I saw this article, “How to Save Canada”🇨🇦 in The Walrus. thewalrus.ca
The Driftwood Mermaid 🧜♀️— an assemblage of found objects from the beach at the cottage on Lake Huron, where we’re staying. #VernacularArt
August 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Driftwood Mermaid 🧜♀️— an assemblage of found objects from the beach at the cottage on Lake Huron, where we’re staying. #VernacularArt
One hundred years ago, Zora Neale Hurston plied an old black man in Alabama with watermelons and ham to tell her his story — of being taken in a tribal raid in Africa and sold into slavery. “Barracoon”
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One hundred years ago, Zora Neale Hurston plied an old black man in Alabama with watermelons and ham to tell her his story — of being taken in a tribal raid in Africa and sold into slavery. “Barracoon”