It’s Sierra Pelona Rock Club meeting night. Wonder what will learn tonight. Pumpkin Spice Sugar cookies for the group. Happy Fall

perhaps some night
as i sit sleepless
sipping smoking
the door will bang
and i will hear your boots
scuffing their way
out of one darkness
into another

© 2013 RC deWinter
Published in Nightingale & Sparrow
– issue iv October 2020

Hey America…

Today's amateur astronomer conference BoHeTa in Bochum, Germany, featured inter alia a talk by Ralf Burkart on high-res videos of solar phenomena (H alpha). Originals a lot better than shown here and absolutely amazing!
#astronomy

"Darkness sinks its teeth into day as the year's descent deepens. Shadows fill up the street and cold creeps under our skin. Small valleys are bowls of mist brimmed with endings: bones, leaf-litter, rinds, skins, all the husks that held bright fires of life." 1/3

Art: Andy Kehoe, Liminal Communion

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

I’ve got another key follow for you! My friend Jess Piper is a brilliant organizer & leader. Her work and perspective on rural politics is second to none and she has an amazing Substack as well. She’s running Blue Missouri and helping so many others. Give her a follow! @piperformissouri.bsky.social

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With the flood of new people here, I have updated and expanded my starter pack! I hope it helps you find the best of Bluesky. go.bsky.app/JSLScTv

The only view a dog cares about.. 😊

Is it just me or does everyone immediately dislike any cyber truck on the road and its driver