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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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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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I so relate to this, and it makes me very sad.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Good morning Bluesky.
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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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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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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.
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#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
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Sundown - 60th Street
Watercolor - 22x15 inches
#art @bsky.art
July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Imaginary Falconer
Watercolor - 15x11 inches
@bsky.art #art
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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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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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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July 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Imelda May - Johnny's Got A Boom Boom (Official Video)
YouTube video by ImeldaMayVEVO
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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
#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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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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A write-up of some remarks I made at the Los Angeles Festival of Books: www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/04/28/p...
April 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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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
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
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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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