Thomas D. Kersting
@tdkerst.bsky.social
Writer: Historical Fiction, Memoir, Personal Essays
Blog:
thomasdkersting.com
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Blog:
thomasdkersting.com
#historicalfictionwriters
#writingcommunity
#authors&writing
#booksky
#BluePit
Lovely day for a ramble in the Cavan Burren.
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Lovely day for a ramble in the Cavan Burren.
"Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin
Follow Your Bliss:
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Follow Your Bliss:
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell
September Dahlias
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
September Dahlias
Going to seed amid September blooms. The Garden, September 13, 2025.
September 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Going to seed amid September blooms. The Garden, September 13, 2025.
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). The Garden, September 1st.
September 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). The Garden, September 1st.
July 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Summer evening, Falmouth, Cape Cod
July 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Summer evening, Falmouth, Cape Cod
Blazing dianthus in the late spring garden
June 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Blazing dianthus in the late spring garden
View from my garden bench in late spring
June 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
View from my garden bench in late spring
Reposted by Thomas D. Kersting
🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
June 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
White oleander in the California sunlight
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
White oleander in the California sunlight
Fresh pasta at this Italian restaurant in California. Love a good pun.
June 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Fresh pasta at this Italian restaurant in California. Love a good pun.
"Stories can keep us alive long after we gone."
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post is at
thomasdkersting.com.
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Stories can keep us alive long after we gone."
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"Within a few generations most of us recede from memory, consigned to a leaf on a family tree and fading with the passage of time toward the oblivion of 'the ancestors.' But stories can keep us alive long after we are gone."
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
May 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Within a few generations most of us recede from memory, consigned to a leaf on a family tree and fading with the passage of time toward the oblivion of 'the ancestors.' But stories can keep us alive long after we are gone."
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
May 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Within a few generations most of us recede from memory, consigned to a leaf on a family tree and fading with the passage of time toward the oblivion of 'the ancestors.' But stories can keep us alive long after we are gone."
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
"A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.
The simple splendor of bluebells.
#NatureWriting
#NatureWriting
May 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The simple splendor of bluebells.
#NatureWriting
#NatureWriting
May 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We've had so much rain that this lovely old ash just keeled over, it's tired old roots letting go in the saturated earth. #NatureWriting
May 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We've had so much rain that this lovely old ash just keeled over, it's tired old roots letting go in the saturated earth. #NatureWriting
May the Fourth be with you.
May 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
May the Fourth be with you.
Does anyone else keep a Reader's Notebook? I copy into mine fluent, lyrical, or imaginative lines worth noting (credited, of course). It slows down the reading to tab the lines, but provides model lines & phrases to look back on. #authorsandwriters
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Does anyone else keep a Reader's Notebook? I copy into mine fluent, lyrical, or imaginative lines worth noting (credited, of course). It slows down the reading to tab the lines, but provides model lines & phrases to look back on. #authorsandwriters
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
Does anyone else keep a Reader's Notebook? I copy into mine fluent, lyrical, or imaginative lines worth noting (credited, of course). It slows down the reading to tab the lines, but provides model lines & phrases to look back on. #authorsandwriters
May 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Does anyone else keep a Reader's Notebook? I copy into mine fluent, lyrical, or imaginative lines worth noting (credited, of course). It slows down the reading to tab the lines, but provides model lines & phrases to look back on. #authorsandwriters
Transient beauty: Kwanzan Cherry in full bloom. #Nature #NatureWriting
April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Transient beauty: Kwanzan Cherry in full bloom. #Nature #NatureWriting