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Joy K.

@joyousk.bsky.social

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Retired teacher. Nature nerd. Wildlife rehab volunteer. Atheist. Wikipedia editor for over 20 years. Rainy-day enthusiast, living my best life on Washington's Pacific Coast. she/her

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 3d

"So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing."

“Exit Strategy”
Martha Wells @marthawells.com

#SundaySentence
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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Aug 31

From the novel "The Music of Bees," by Eileen Garvin
#SundaySentence
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On a background image of shattered glass, the quote says "As long as she made it to the county planning department by 8:30 a.m. five days a week, no one had to know that Alice Holtzman was made of a million tiny broken pieces held together by cookies, solitary driving, and the sheer determination not to go crazy in public."

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Aug 25

I don't think she's figured that out yet.

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Once you see the ants, for example, once the life underground and nests in the trees are visible to you, you are all the more devastated when an acre is scraped for development, or the dry hills go up in flames."

"Heartwood" by Amity Gaige
#SundaySentence
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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hey, you guuuuuys, I was just thinking the same thing!

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jul 27

"I would love to know more about what it takes to arrive at that moment — how tired you must be, how high, how deep in your own creative process, to realize that the final touch your song needs is a nonverbal loop of you imitating a very determined squirrel."

#SundaySentence
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"The Number Ones"

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jul 23

I do it for most mysteries esp British ones. Brits like to introduce 47 characters by page 12.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jul 10

Well damn. Just finished Alan Sepinwall's excellent book, and now I suppose I must re-watch the entire "Better Call Saul" series.

@sepinwall.bsky.social

Front cover of the book "Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The complete critical companion to Better Call Saul" by Alan Sepinwall

Reposted by Joy K.

Barbara @calmspin.bsky.social · Jun 29

#SundaySentence
“It is possible that if we spent more time alone in Nature our intuitive abilities - another way of gathering information about the world - would strengthen.”

- Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning, 1994/2004

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jun 29

I LOVE John Connolly's work.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jun 29

"You don’t get ghosts from a past you don’t care about."

Brandy Shillace, ‪
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
“The Framed Women of Ardemore House”
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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jun 22

"But even the most lax of garages would not certify a vehicle as roadworthy if it had a human skeleton and a pile of maggot cases in the cabin."

"Still Life"
Val McDermid ‪
‪@valmcdermid.bsky.social‬
#SundaySentence

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jun 18

First red huckleberry of the season

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Jun 8

"Instead of saying ‘I don’t think children should read this book,’ just add a single word: ‘I don’t think MY children should read this book."

Dav Pilkey
“What it's like to top banned book lists around the world”
The Guardian

#SundaySentence
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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · May 12

Just realized that I erred in the title. It should be "How Lucky"

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · May 12

My favorite from yesterday's #SundaySentence

mary-sonoma @mary94930.bsky.social · May 11

I was lonely for the sky, for the feel of it on my face.

— Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese

Great book
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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · May 11

If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath.

from "Lucky" by Will Leitch
@williamfleitch.bsky.social

We can’t agree on anything in this world, we can’t even sit with each other long enough to decide whether we want to agree on anything, but of all things, it’s football, this awful game that destroys the brains of college students without even paying them a dime for the privilege, this last refuge of the helplessly meat-headed, it’s football that brings us together, goddammit, and we can assemble and wear red and bark at each other and push all the awful shit down to a place it won’t return until Tuesday at the latest, and we do it seven times a year and that’s seven times a year when we don’t have to live with the rest of it and I gotta tell you, that ain’t nothing.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · May 8

Ellen Crimi-Trent provided the tutorial for this. I have learned to paint a dragonfly. Be very afraid.

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Watercolor painting of a dragonfly among green foliage.

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 15

I like the red leaves best.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 14

I need Jelly Belly to make the MANY red flavors better differentiated. I'm having trouble picking out the nasty cinnamons without unknowingly sacrificing the other red flavors that are good.

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 14

Sitting with a cup of tea, watching Doctor Who ("The Pandorica Opens", which, as you will see, is oddly appropriate), and trying to decide how to paint a picture of a badly-painted door so it doesn't look like a badly-painted painting of a badly-painted door.

#watercolor

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 13

the paint and water have minds of their own, don't they?

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 13

I like pretty much everything about this. In particular, Aunt Delores's squint into the sun, the webbing on the lawn chairs, the various colors of the bricks, and your cousin's shoes.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 12

Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach OR

#watercolor

Watercolor painting of Haystack Rock at sunset

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · Apr 9

Is that the one where Anthony Bourdain illustrates an economics concept using a chunk of haddock?

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