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John Powers
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Follower and link collector. I have a Tumblr blog https://protoslacker.tumblr.com/
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September 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I really like this idea for a documentary and just the prompt of three songs you'd tell a story about.
Call for stories: share three pieces of music which have affected you in times of challenge, triumph, joy or personal discovery. Send your name, 3 favortie songs and contact informaton to MUSICDOC2025@GMAIL.COM
July 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Zorz Neale Hurston 20/20
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, a novel. The cover illustration is a wood -cut picture of a man laying in the green grass, nestled under the branches of a shrub with rolling fields in the distance. The sky is blue. There is also a quote from Alice Walker in small type, "There is no book more important to me than this one."
May 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Shireen Abu Akleh 19/20
Photo of the slain journalist overlooking the old city of Jerusalem. AL Jaseera Media Network https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Patricia Polacco18/20
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco. Cover illustration is a painting of two boys in the American Civil War era, one white one black. They are close together the black boy is holding a Bible and they seem to be pondering a passage.
May 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Ruth Wilson Gilmore 17/20
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. A brown cover with a pink pattern of clusters joined by stems. Perhaps fruiting bodies of a plant, or perhaps a graph of clusters of people.
May 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Elinor Ostrom 16/20
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom. A Gray cover with the title and author in white. The cover art is a ring of paper doll cutouts in several colors, red, orange, green, blue, purple and magenta.
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Elizabeth Povinelli 15/20
The Inheritance by Elizabreth A. Povinelli. The cover illustration is a painting of an old tree with two low branches such that children could climb up into it. Boards have been nailed to the tree to assist in climbing as well as a platform between the forked branches with ropes attatched. There are five blond children in the tree and a toddler on the ground holding a rope perhaps making ready to climb.
May 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Mariame Kaba 13/20
Fish-In & Black/Native Solidarity in the 1960s by Mariame Kaba, The cover are is a photo of a Black man and a Native man in a fishing canoe.
May 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Lynda Barry 12/20
Making Comics by Lynda Barry published by Drawn & Quarterly. Elaborlately drawn images. A curtain supported by two painting pallets with the words "Celestial Activity" and a key-stone shape in the center with the words "Hand /Eye" above and below the infinity symbol. The central cartoon show two figures one holds a lit torch above a sacred fire.
May 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Ursula Franklin 11/20
The Real World of Technology by Urusula M. Franklin. A white cover with a square image of an etching of a clock movement showing the mainspring and wheel train.
May 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Bell Hooks 10/20
black looks: race and representation by bell hooks (title and author without capitalization). The cover is a black and white photograph of a middle-aged person with long hair wearing a short sleaved dress sitting in a chair on a porch. Their race seems indeterminate to me, an old white man, but my impression is thry're not white.
May 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Shailja Patel 9/20
Migritude by Shailja Patel. The cover art is a cropped photo of two people with dark skin. It appears to me it's a women wearing a sleaveless shift of patterned cloth holding a child who is probably 6 or 7. No clothing is visible on the child. Their arms in embrace form an X centered in the image with the title and author superimposed. Just above the title is a patterened paisley figure.
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Mary Catherine Bateson 8/20
Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology of the Sacred by Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson. The cover art is a painting of a grey day with rays of sunlight illuminating three areas in the field of vision. In the background one area is a group of trees and understory plants. Next to it the view extends to a distant horizon. In the forground is a plan in flower with a trowel next to it.
May 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Toni Morrison 7/20
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Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in LIterature 1993. The photo is a head shot of Morrison.
May 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Deborah Bird Rose 7/20
Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose. The cover is a picture of the sky which is a very soft violet color. High in the sky are many fruit bats in flight.
May 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Ellen Dissanayake 6/20
What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake. A black cover with author and titile in white. The cover image is a Fauvist painting depicting eight figures. Three of the figures are sitting togethe and there is a fourth reclining whiose size is much smaller. A figure is reaching to grasp something in hand. Another seems to be sitting in water with a hand to head. Two figures stand closely together in a cave or dark area. I think I see a cat in the picture. The vegetation and setting are dream-like.
May 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Ntozake Shange 5/20
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. An early edition with a red cover and type writer lettering. The cover art is a line-drawing of a cut rose with leaves wired to the stem.
May 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order
Arundahti Roy 4/20
The Alegebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy. I am not sure what the cover image is. Perhaps an Abstract painting, perhaps part of an image from the Hubble space telescope, perhaps a photo under an ocean looking up tothe surface. The image conveys a feeling of infinity.
May 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Carol Gilliam 3/20
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan. There is a picture of a preteen aged child sitting at a table with a bowl on it, behind her is a bookcase with books. Sun rays are flooding the room and she has her head tilted back with her eyes closed and left arm raised all to catch the feeling of the sun.
April 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Sandra Boyton 2/20
Some of the letters in the title are colored in their negative spaces against a white background. Thre is a cropped line-drawing of a hippopotamus's head looking to the right. The way the hippo's head is cropped makes it seem urgent to open the book.
April 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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1/20 Munya Andrews
Aboriginal rock painting, spirit figure in red ochre.
April 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Siddartha
20/20
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Siddartha by Herman Hesse translated by Joachim Neugroschel. A Pink Cover with the title in a golden yellow towards the top left. The pink ia printed with block cut leaves in orange. A blue curve stripes across the middle with light blue snail shapesprinted on top. It's clear water.. Two large cranes stand opposite in the center of the image.
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Values and Teaching
19/20
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Values And Teaching by Louis E. Raths, Merrill Harmin, Sidney Simon. The names and title are in a white box a the top of th ecover. The rest of the cover is a blurry or mottled pink iwith a similarly blurry image of an apple in the middle. The apple shape is made by stripes of lines of a slightly more vermilion shade of pink. The effect created demsionality for the apple.
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Smalll Is Beautiful
18/20

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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. A white covers with the cover artwith photographs simplified, colorized and layered in a collage. The central image is Gandhi in a portal, a mature tree in leaf superimposed as if he is carrying it in one arm. There are planets and plants as well as a butterfly. Above the butterfly is a man in a bowler hat riding a velocipede.
December 10, 2024 at 9:29 AM