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Here for #SundaySentence, cat memes, and other "brilliant things"
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"How is it you couldn't see that desire is unruly? Give it an inch and it will take a mile. Let it do what it wants, and it will brush away a lifetime's worth of care, self-denial, and strategy like a cobweb." Ada Calhoun, "Crush" #SundaySentence
May 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"How is it you couldn't see that desire is unruly? Give it an inch and it will take a mile. Let it do what it wants, and it will brush away a lifetime's worth of care, self-denial, and strategy like a cobweb." Ada Calhoun, "Crush" #SundaySentence
"Through reading and writing [. . .] I found a kind of salvation from the dark." Matt Haig "Reasons to Stay Alive." #SundaySentence
March 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Through reading and writing [. . .] I found a kind of salvation from the dark." Matt Haig "Reasons to Stay Alive." #SundaySentence
"Nothing can touch me. The power of work. Art, and the huge, quiet power it gives." Helen Garner, "The Diaries"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Nothing can touch me. The power of work. Art, and the huge, quiet power it gives." Helen Garner, "The Diaries"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
"Questing is what makes a woman the hero of her own life."
Katha Pollitt (from Darcey Steinke's "Flash Count Diary")
#SundaySentence
Katha Pollitt (from Darcey Steinke's "Flash Count Diary")
#SundaySentence
March 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
"Questing is what makes a woman the hero of her own life."
Katha Pollitt (from Darcey Steinke's "Flash Count Diary")
#SundaySentence
Katha Pollitt (from Darcey Steinke's "Flash Count Diary")
#SundaySentence
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." Illinois Governor Pritzker #SundaySetence
February 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." Illinois Governor Pritzker #SundaySetence
"If just once a day people read a poem instead of picking up their phone, I guarantee you the world would be a better place." Paul Murray, "The Bee Sting" #SundaySentence
February 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"If just once a day people read a poem instead of picking up their phone, I guarantee you the world would be a better place." Paul Murray, "The Bee Sting" #SundaySentence
From Terrence Real's "Us," "The great spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said that true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses." #SundaySentence
February 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From Terrence Real's "Us," "The great spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said that true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses." #SundaySentence
"In the end, I had to realize it was never meant to be. It wasn't New York. It was me. I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan." from the always brilliant @cherylstrayed.bsky.social #SundaySentence
February 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"In the end, I had to realize it was never meant to be. It wasn't New York. It was me. I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan." from the always brilliant @cherylstrayed.bsky.social #SundaySentence
"Before I got married, my boss told me that the secret to a strong marriage is to leave at least three things unsaid each day." From Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project #SundaySentence
January 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Before I got married, my boss told me that the secret to a strong marriage is to leave at least three things unsaid each day." From Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project #SundaySentence
As if there are not enough disastrous events happening around us, just read that the "ballet body" is back in vogue. Did it ever leave? Oh, joy.
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
As if there are not enough disastrous events happening around us, just read that the "ballet body" is back in vogue. Did it ever leave? Oh, joy.
"And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition." Robin Wall Kimmerer "Braiding Sweetgrass." #SundaySentence #booksky
January 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition." Robin Wall Kimmerer "Braiding Sweetgrass." #SundaySentence #booksky
"Eat happy. Get a routine baggy enough to live in. Be kind. Accept that not everyone will like you. Appreciate those who do. Don't be defined. Allow fuck-ups. Want what you already have. . . .[S]ay yes to the things that help you live." Matt Haig #SundaySentence
January 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Eat happy. Get a routine baggy enough to live in. Be kind. Accept that not everyone will like you. Appreciate those who do. Don't be defined. Allow fuck-ups. Want what you already have. . . .[S]ay yes to the things that help you live." Matt Haig #SundaySentence
So many good sentences this week, I put one on evil Twitter and going to try to select just one from the brilliant "Liars" by @sarahmanguso.bsky.social : "Calling a woman crazy is a man's last resort when he's failed to control her." #SundaySentence
January 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So many good sentences this week, I put one on evil Twitter and going to try to select just one from the brilliant "Liars" by @sarahmanguso.bsky.social : "Calling a woman crazy is a man's last resort when he's failed to control her." #SundaySentence
"The first easily articulable feeling of her life, love, love, for this tiny, tiny person, and she felt, then, such wonderful relief, that finally something had worked the way it was supposed to." Claire Lombardo #SundaySentence
December 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM
"The first easily articulable feeling of her life, love, love, for this tiny, tiny person, and she felt, then, such wonderful relief, that finally something had worked the way it was supposed to." Claire Lombardo #SundaySentence
I saw a really powerful play called “Every Brilliant Thing” centered around a list the central charter writes for why life is worth living. After, the audience was invited to share their reasons. Could not have appreciated all of this more.
December 9, 2024 at 3:51 AM
I saw a really powerful play called “Every Brilliant Thing” centered around a list the central charter writes for why life is worth living. After, the audience was invited to share their reasons. Could not have appreciated all of this more.
"In particular, you're not obligated to shrink yourself to please others, or society, or even to appeare your own internalized sense of what you ought to look like." from brilliant and brave @katemanne.bsky.social #SundaySentence
December 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM
"In particular, you're not obligated to shrink yourself to please others, or society, or even to appeare your own internalized sense of what you ought to look like." from brilliant and brave @katemanne.bsky.social #SundaySentence
Has #SundaySentence made it to BlueSky? It is the last thread holding me to Twitter or whatever it is called.
November 24, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Has #SundaySentence made it to BlueSky? It is the last thread holding me to Twitter or whatever it is called.