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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 1d

September's installment of The Month in Photos is very Eureka Springs-centric. Pics include the Jeep parade, the Run Unicorn Run, and Hillbilly Jim taking a bath. Oh, and #cats, of course.

See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 2d

"Unlike its French namesake, Paris, Texas, should probably be called the City of Darkness."

New post up at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/one-night-...

This was a hard one to write, and a hard one to read, but once I learned the facts about Paris' history, I couldn't look away.

A replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Texas, is seen illuminated at night. On top of the tower is a giant, cherry-red cowboy hat.

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 3d

And that’s an absolutely marvelous cover! Thanks for sharing.

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unixwhisperer @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 3d

From a substack post dated 03OCT2025 written by Mathilda Ferguson, entitled "The Silent Dialogue: How Literature Cultivates the Landscape of the Heart" this hopeful #SundaySentence:

"The cultivation of a single reader's heart, when multiplied, tills the earth for a more compassionate society."

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been hearing so many good things about this novel—another resident of my ever-growing TBR pile now, thanks to readers like you!

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking of hope....

Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 3d

"I think it's the only form of hope we have. For our survival, I mean. What good is any other virtue without love?"

HEART THE LOVER
by Lily King
#SundaySentence

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 3d

Barbara frowned, looking up at the ceiling, where there was nothing to see save a row of fluorescent lights, of the type that made everyone look like they'd just been released from hospital while still profoundly ill. - Elizabeth George, A Slowly Dying Cause (Lynley series) #SundaySentence #Booksky

The cover image shows a lonely rural road with an old building in the distance. The words "A Lynley novel" appear in-between the author name and title.

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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 3d

We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
#sundaysentence #booksky

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 3d

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

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Shawn Breathes Books @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social · 4d

#SundaySentence from 'Child's Play' in the short story collection Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard

#ElizabethJaneHoward

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of an elderly man sitting on the edge of bed and the words ‘Whoops-a-daisy,' he said, smiling again to show he was all right, and stuck one of his dreadful old feet with its Walt Disney ogre's toenails almost into her face as she knelt recovering his travelling clock, his pills, his spilled water-carafe, his spectacles, his address book that he kept up to date by crossing off his friends as they died, his saucer that he'd used for grape pips, a couple of chessmen he'd been mending and a plastic heart-shaped box in which he kept alternate rows of false teeth at night.]

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Graciewilde @graciewilde.bsky.social · 7d

“The world will always bring you back into perspective, if you only bother to let it.”

From Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

This #SundaySentence could not wait for Sunday.

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 3d

#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!

Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.

A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 8d

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ManTheDan @manthedan.bsky.social · 10d

Fell in love with Jose Saramago all over again while rereading Cain, his skeptic take on the old testament:
"God should be as clear and transparent as a pane of glass and not go wasting his energies on creating an atmosphere of constant terror and fear."
#SundaySentence

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 10d

#SundaySentence

Rereading an old favorite...

"There came to him, stirred by the warmth of the fire and the gentle aroma of tea, a thousand tangled recollections of old times."

- James Hilton, 1934

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 10d

She put her head back and looked up at the sky; the clouds were gigantic, glazed on their underbellies with radiant pink, like clouds in a painting of a Bible story. (271)

Donna Tartt / The Little Friend
#SundaySentence

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Brynn Devereaux @brynndevereaux.bsky.social · 10d

“Peppered with the scrapes and bruises, dents and half-healed wounds of what has clearly been a hard fighting life, the oak has the face of an aging football hooligan.”

- A #SundaySentence by Callum Robinson, “Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman”

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 10d

Further proof of why ONE OF US by @danchaon.bsky.social is at the top of my must-read this season.

Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 10d

“Suddenly she is fluttering near the wood-and-mud root cellar ceiling above her—not like a butterfly but more like a bit of ash or ember, carried off on the night breeze, pulled upward like a spark in the narrow trail that leads from a campfire to the dark sky.” D. Chaon, One of Us, #sundaysentence

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Jennifer Holmes @jenmededit.bsky.social · 10d

“The buds on the peony were filling now, like tight green scoops of ice cream with a hint of raspberry peeking through.”—THE PLACE OF TIDES, by James Rebanks

#SundaySentence

The cover of THE PLACE OF TIDES by James Rebanks shows a photograph of the setting: the islands of Norway’s arctic coast near Vega.

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 10d

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of the warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima: J. Robert Oppenheimer @vermontgmg.bsky.social #SundaySentence

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 10d

For what else is a marriage, really, if not being stuck on a small raft with someone and trying to survive! from #AMarriageatSea by #SophieElmhirst
#sundaysentence
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 10d

Let me be perfectly clear: this is an amusing and witty take on a very serious situation in Portland--a manufactured problem which was spun like cotton candy from the low-oxygen brain of our president. My heart goes out to my Portland friends.

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 11d

Speaking of #SundaySentence, nearly every one of the sentences in this brilliant piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is worthy of the hashtag. Read it and weep through the laughter.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11d

My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 11d

The U.S. Constitution, made from the hides of fleeced sheep, the feathers of molting geese, and sunbeams and shafts of light, is not perfect and never was perfect and never will be perfect.
~Jill Lepore, "We the People"

That's my #SundaySentence for the week. What's YOUR favorite sentence you read?

The cover image of "We the People: a History of the U.S. Constitution" by JIll Lepore is shown on the screen of a Kobo e-reader.

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