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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 3d

#TodaysPoem: Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful #poem about his sisters, published for the first time:

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @IrishTimes

#SeamusHeaney #poetrycommunity #poetry

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 4d

So beautiful 🥹

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 5d

Quote from: news.janegoodall.org/2017/09/20/d...

Image/quote from: The Hopeful Herbivore

Dr. Jane Goodall's Message for Peace

Today on International Peace Day, Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace shares her remarks on the state of the world & how we can each create peace.

news.janegoodall.org

Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 5d

#JaneGoodall 🩵

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 5d

My #FridayReads: Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley - on Libby 🎧

#AmReading #AmListening #LibbyApp #audiobook #LibraryLover

Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 12d

Wondering if the pavers were hot? Like a hen on a hot tin roof, but caterpillars on hot pavers ground? Or maybe he was just running late for work.

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 12d

Wondering

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”

― Assata Shakur

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

Beyond shaming Carney for this, we really need to talk about the way we've become addicted to convenience.

Bezos has people thinking they can't live without getting everything mailed directly to them within 24 hours. It's awful for the environment AND workers. Rampant consumerism is fucking us.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 13d

My #FridayReads is The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher. #Booksky

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 13d

My #FridayReads is The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher, listening with the Libby app. 🎧 #audiobook #AmReading #AmListening

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 24d

Agree. And the idea that everyone should get out and vote only makes sense if everyone is paying attention to whom — candidate and party — and what they are voting for/against. They had a big sign at the intersection and you liked the look of it isn’t a particularly good reason.

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Needless To Say @needlesstosay.bsky.social · 25d

Kaoru Yamada - Bright Morning by the Bay

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 25d

“The world begins at a kitchen table.”

#SundaySentence from “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo.

poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/pe… @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoeme#poeme#poetryry

https://poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/pe…

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 29d

🎥 Film features #librarians who’ve been thrust into the spotlight over their commitment to the freedom to read.

bookriot.com/the-libraria... @bookriot.bsky.social

Trailer: youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?...

#TheLibrarians #bannedbooks #bookbans #film #documentary #libraries #documentaries #freedomtoread

Award-Winning THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Sets Widespread Release

The award-winning documentary THE LIBRARIANS, which explores contemporary book bans and attacks on librarians, to release nationwide.

bookriot.com

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our sense that our struggles were our own fault, our acceptance of the way things were, helped keep American industry humming to the benefit of the wealthy #SundaySentence @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · Sep 1

#TodaysPoem “The Hag’s Call” by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin printed in #Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie @sharonblackie.bsky.social, @newworldlibrary.bsky.social. Illus by Natalie Eslick. You can also read it at: www.connotationpress.com/featured-gue... #poem #poetry #poems

Cover of Hagitude, lushly illustrated with part view of a woman, twigs, berries, leaves and mushrooms.

Black and white illustration of a woman and bird. Poem text.

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LiteraryVienna @literaryvienna.bsky.social · Aug 20

„Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.“

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · Aug 23

No 😄

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · Aug 17

#AmReading #AmListening to Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - #audiobook from @libbyapp.com. There are vampires. How did l not now there would be vampires? #BuryOurBonesintheMidnightSoil

Cover of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · Aug 17

“To see little parts of ourselves in other people’s stories.”

Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson 📖 We Will Be Jaguars

#SundaySentence

In response to her question about “why do white people read so much?”

Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson, We Will Be Jaguars (2024) Abrams Press.

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · Aug 17

“And l have become the child of clouds, and of hope.”

#SundaySentence from Mary Oliver’s "To Begin With, the Sweet Grass" from Devotions.

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · Aug 5

I got You should read: The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller - Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist should you read first? www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6...

Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist should you read first?

www.tryinteract.com

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · Aug 4

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