Joy Castro
@joy-castro.bsky.social
“It is also painful to focus on the art, but impossible to process the world as anything but art.”
— @karlarrriot.bsky.social
— @karlarrriot.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“It is also painful to focus on the art, but impossible to process the world as anything but art.”
— @karlarrriot.bsky.social
— @karlarrriot.bsky.social
Not every town has an espresso & wine bar named after a poem (& a very fitting one, at that)—but not every town was the childhood home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of our best.
Happy to be back in Camden, Maine.
Happy to be back in Camden, Maine.
July 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Not every town has an espresso & wine bar named after a poem (& a very fitting one, at that)—but not every town was the childhood home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of our best.
Happy to be back in Camden, Maine.
Happy to be back in Camden, Maine.
Morning pages before Pilates class…
July 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Morning pages before Pilates class…
“…[S]he didn’t need to abuse anything to create, though she herself had been so badly abused. Her paintings are in a sense walls against abuse—they receive the abuse and hold it and transform it into cleanness and sanity.”
—Rachel Cusk for @yalereview.bsky.social
—Rachel Cusk for @yalereview.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“…[S]he didn’t need to abuse anything to create, though she herself had been so badly abused. Her paintings are in a sense walls against abuse—they receive the abuse and hold it and transform it into cleanness and sanity.”
—Rachel Cusk for @yalereview.bsky.social
—Rachel Cusk for @yalereview.bsky.social
Beautiful here—& the accommodations at The Studios are wonderful. Artists, apply!
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Beautiful here—& the accommodations at The Studios are wonderful. Artists, apply!
“I repeat my mantra: literature lives in sentences.”
—Michelle de Kretser
—Michelle de Kretser
May 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“I repeat my mantra: literature lives in sentences.”
—Michelle de Kretser
—Michelle de Kretser
The everyday class cruelty of “civilized” society
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The everyday class cruelty of “civilized” society
“I was thrilled when they put me in solitary”
May 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“I was thrilled when they put me in solitary”
Slow run after a rain in Lincoln this morning
May 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Slow run after a rain in Lincoln this morning
Grateful for my beautiful (& fragrant!) pedestrian commute to work. #qualityoflife
April 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Grateful for my beautiful (& fragrant!) pedestrian commute to work. #qualityoflife
"With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them
are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere."
—George S. Messersmith, U.S. consul general for Germany, 1933
are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere."
—George S. Messersmith, U.S. consul general for Germany, 1933
April 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them
are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere."
—George S. Messersmith, U.S. consul general for Germany, 1933
are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere."
—George S. Messersmith, U.S. consul general for Germany, 1933
Thank you both so much.
I’ve been loving & teaching this story by Indigenous writer Adam Garnet Jones, which dovetails with your concluding commitments.
I’ve been loving & teaching this story by Indigenous writer Adam Garnet Jones, which dovetails with your concluding commitments.
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thank you both so much.
I’ve been loving & teaching this story by Indigenous writer Adam Garnet Jones, which dovetails with your concluding commitments.
I’ve been loving & teaching this story by Indigenous writer Adam Garnet Jones, which dovetails with your concluding commitments.
As someone who grew up in (& ran away from) an abusive home, I couldn’t agree more with Gloria Steinem’s analysis of the global impact of unaddressed childhood trauma (because formerly abused national leaders reproduce the violence they suffered).
Far better to prevent it…
bringupnebraska.org
Far better to prevent it…
bringupnebraska.org
April 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As someone who grew up in (& ran away from) an abusive home, I couldn’t agree more with Gloria Steinem’s analysis of the global impact of unaddressed childhood trauma (because formerly abused national leaders reproduce the violence they suffered).
Far better to prevent it…
bringupnebraska.org
Far better to prevent it…
bringupnebraska.org
In Fairbanks, Alaska today
April 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In Fairbanks, Alaska today
“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect upon the world.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
March 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect upon the world.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
Good to visit Berea College, founded by an abolitionist, & see the bell hooks Institute in person.
March 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Good to visit Berea College, founded by an abolitionist, & see the bell hooks Institute in person.
Pretty cool at U of Georgia
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Pretty cool at U of Georgia