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Jim Anderson
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“Thinking makes it so." Writer, teacher, Army vet, Ph.D., hiker, nature lover. 🙏🎖️🌎 🏞️ 🌴 ✍️ 📚 ⚜️ #Kindness #Freedom #Justice #Equality #Writing #Books
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Jim Anderson @cruxpoint.bsky.social · Nov 22
I'm an old man, in my last years after a long life of glorious failure and dubious success. Somebody asked: "What life wisdom did you learn?" So for my next lifetime, I'd say: Dare to be real. Live daily "right here now." Don't hold fear inside. Speak your truth out loud. Always choose kindness.
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urocklive1.bsky.social
I so relate to this, and it makes me very sad.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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lat611.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky.
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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theoliphantunicorn.bsky.social
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away. ~ Robert Fulghum 🕊️
#peacefulplace #findyourpeace #shareyourpeace #intotheforest #igo #tolosemymind #findmysoul #forest #woods #nature #home #takeahike #givepeace #achance
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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theoliphantunicorn.bsky.social
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~Jane Goodall 🌻
#bethechange #growpeace #makeadifference #standup #speakout #plantpower #flowerpower #sunflowers #flowers #bloomscrolling #peacegarden #youmatter #belikeher #changetheworld #keepgrowing
October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Thanks to my friend James Horton, I have just discovered the work of Danish painter of Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and HOW CAN A PERSON NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO PAINT SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A PHOTO ON AN IPHONE WHAT IS THIS ABSOLUTE SORCERY.
Photo....no, wait, a PAINTING, by Peder Mørk Mønsted, of the snow-laden banks of a river that looks absolutely photo-real. Another painting by Peder Mørk Mønsted that looks utterly photo-realistic of a tree-lined river with utterly convincing shades of green-tinted darkness and perfect reflections in the river below.
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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ellissa.bsky.social
#dailyhaikuprompt (dance) #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #birdphotography #flyday #impermanence #gratitude #mortality 🪶📸

Flying in the meadow
Dancing among wildflowers
Life is sweet and brief
Hummingbird flying through a field of red and purple wildflowers
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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thomaswschaller.bsky.social
Sundown - 60th Street
Watercolor - 22x15 inches
#art @bsky.art
A view of downtown Manhattan at sunset - looking East on 60th Street
July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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thomaswschaller.bsky.social
Imaginary Falconer
Watercolor - 15x11 inches
@bsky.art #art
We all live at least two lives. One that we show to the world, and another that live only in spirit . In this life we can fly. we are immortal
July 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Patch of Light - Havana
Watercolor - 15x15 inches
#art #architecture @bsky.art
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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“Wisdom is hard won -many times it comes from observing nature and learning to live in the moment; in the awareness that exists beyond the mind, past the ego and all of its self-centered suffering. It requires both alchemy and acceptance.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
'The Hissing of Summer Lawns'
A Midsummer Meditation
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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holyhera.bsky.social
Doesn’t it frighten you?
How no one ever
seems to be real.

I think
𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸
what to say.

But it’s them—
spewing a
word track,
on a loop.

And you can’t
show signs
of flinching.

#Poetry #Poem
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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holyhera.bsky.social
If you think of me
as nice, surely
I’ve done something
terribly wrong.

If you think of me as
kind, I’ll assume
you understand
that it is a balance.

If you think of me,
I pray you’ll think
that I was real—

and that I gave you space
to be human.

#Poetry #Poem
July 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.
July 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
cruxpoint.bsky.social
#music
Imelda May - Johnny's Got A Boom Boom (Official Video)
YouTube video by ImeldaMayVEVO
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
cruxpoint.bsky.social
#music
Mad World - Vintage Vaudeville - Style Cover ft. Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart
YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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borowitzreport.bsky.social
I don’t want foreign students out of Harvard but I do want foreign billionaires out of the government
May 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
cruxpoint.bsky.social
#nature #birds #florida

Nesting birds ib St. Augustine, FL. Includes some gorgeous and goofy roseate spoonbills and some beautiful herons. (Video starts with an ad, but it’s worth the wait.) 😎
Nature: Nesting birds in Florida
We leave you this Mother's Day with some moms and their chicks in St. Augustine, Florida. Videographer: Charles Schultz.
www.cbsnews.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
New article! On mysteries, folklore, and the threat of AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...
The Spooklight
It is better to be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
A write-up of some remarks I made at the Los Angeles Festival of Books: www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/04/28/p...
Full text here: https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/04/28/pages-of-power-authors-on-writing-politics-and-cultural-resistance/ https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/04/28/pages-of-power-authors-on-writing-politics-and-cultural-resistance/
April 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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washingtonpost.com
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
cruxpoint.bsky.social
If you haven’t already seen it, now would be a good time to watch “Conclave.” (It’s excellent.)

#movies 🎥 🎬
Conclave (2024): Where to Watch and Stream Online
Find out where to watch Conclave online. This comprehensive streaming guide lists all of the streaming services where you can rent, buy, or stream for free
reelgood.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Sharon Isbin & Amjad Ali Khan's Strings for Peace: NPR Tiny Desk Concert

#music #worldmusic
Sharon Isbin & Amjad Ali Khan's Strings for Peace: Tiny Desk Concert
The classical guitarist offers a mesmerizing East meets West collision, teaming up with a family of Indian musicians who play the sarod, a darker-toned cousin of the sitar.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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strandjunker.com
There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness.

(I’m not crying, you’re crying.)
April 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM