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Microbiologist - Author - Poet - Public Health Nerd - Medical Writer - Bring Me Microbes, Moss, Misunderstood Creatures - Science Still Matters
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By
Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K Le Guin
January 21, 2026 at 4:56 PM
By
Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K Le Guin
Moss peeking from beneath snow in the Midwest. No water. No fleece, no Primaloft or down or Gore-Tex. No helmets, Kevlar, certainly no drone air support. No nothin’ but biology.💚
#MossInWinter
#MossIsBadass
#january
#MossInWinter
#MossIsBadass
#january
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Moss peeking from beneath snow in the Midwest. No water. No fleece, no Primaloft or down or Gore-Tex. No helmets, Kevlar, certainly no drone air support. No nothin’ but biology.💚
#MossInWinter
#MossIsBadass
#january
#MossInWinter
#MossIsBadass
#january
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Winter woods in midwestern US, following snow, rain, flood, freeze/thaw…repeat
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Winter woods in midwestern US, following snow, rain, flood, freeze/thaw…repeat
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Trimming the Tree
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Trimming the Tree
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
One glass swan
Faded to Riesling,
Weightless.
What else endures?
Nothing fragile,
Ornamental,
No relics and artifacts,
Not this frost-lit night
Or December’s
Tea-stained pavement,
Even the aurora
Flowing through
The cold black sky
Thick with stars?
#Poetry
#Memory
#Fragility
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
November brings change to the
beech-maple forest.
beech-maple forest.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
November brings change to the
beech-maple forest.
beech-maple forest.
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature
#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Resolution
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Resolution
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
Of means, none silent
as the candle
Whispers, none soft as dawn
Causes, none grand as the moth
to weave moonlight each night.
Of words, make mine such steel
that I too would render
wonder from darkness.
#september
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#september
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
#poetry
September
Again the golden month
beauty on beauty's cusp -
tell us summer’s
green dreams and desires
only sleep
as October creeps
over the dry ground.
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Postcard from the Cusp: Summer
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
August 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Postcard from the Cusp: Summer
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
Take every summer,
just leave me
the fast fading bloom day
the sun growing soft day
I want to see
the light glowing gold
the one turning cold day.
#SummerEnd
#Poetry
August 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
August 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
August 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM