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#MidsummerSolace

This world rn is too much. Thankfully, we have Litsy to soothe our 💔 What are you doing to find solace and comfort?
Please share your tips on coping.

My tips
❤️‍🩹Don't be afraid to ask for help.
❤️‍🩹 Check news once daily. Less if it's too much.
❤️‍🩹 Look for the hope stories, the helpers, the fighters, the resisters, and the champions.
❤️‍🩹 Distract yourself with your favourite pastimes.
❤️‍🩹 Be in the company of others.

Oh my god!! Going to be a book 6!! 19 May 2026!!!

I do like this as some kind of 21st century diary.

No post yesterday
Even though I wanted to
My body was Pain

#haikuhive

@itchyfeetreader
@kristy_k
@debinhawaii
@mimi28
@thebookhippie
@jenlovesjt47
@reggie
@vivastory
@eggs
@jdiehr
@thespineview
@cbee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@anncrystal
@bellabella
@booksandcoffee4me
@dabbe

#haikuaday 6-13-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛


 @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
 @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

In 1968, we teen girls wore dresses to school! My mom used this pattern to sew me a dress and I loved it ❤️

#Sewing

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Pickles thanks you for all the well wishes, and wants you to know that she is still a fierce tabby tiger! 🥰🥰

#Whistle

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

June so far. Slower than May, but I managed a #bookspin book (Little Lies) and the next in the series for #EBBR.

I‘m so behind on a lot of buddy reads and Litsy happenings.

Pickles update. Unfortunately, Pickles has a large mass up her nose that there's not much the vets can do about. She has been rapidly going downhill. She can't hear very much, she's wobbly and her nose is blocked.

She still enjoys the sunshine and getting fussed, and she's fine with her new diet of gourmet mousse and Lick-e-lix, but it still breaks my heart.

I love her so much and we're just taking each day as it comes.

#picklescat

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: RED ROSE

It seems I‘m not done writing about this…

#haikuaday 6-12-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @lil1inblue
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader

My final selection is a psychedelic sci-fi manga about chemically altered emotions and the fallout from this industry. The artwork in this one is wild & trippy. Definitely one of the more memorable graphic narratives read so far this year.
#bestof2025

Hey Littens! Guess What? I have finished some books for My #BookishMonopoly.

I enjoyed all of these books. The Spellshop is the one that i think that stands out the most. Found family 💜

As always, feel free to join in with me on my #BookishMonopoly Journey. Everyone is welcome at anytime. I don't do mine month to month. Its just when I feel like playing/reading.

7 spots to go with 4 days left … I think I‘ll make it 👀📚

Went to 7 bookstores only 4 were open 🤦🏼‍♀️ and one was not a bookstore it was just a wine store and the guy was rude so if you visit don‘t go to “Pairing Portland” not nice people there … otherwise had another great day discovering new bookstores 👍🏼😊

#unrelated2books

“Washington envisioned a republic where power rested with the people and was not concentrated in the hands of a single individual.“

As an American Indigenous, I don't usually hoot for the founding fathers...due to the whole stolen land and genocide history...nevertheless, perhaps we all need to remind the suppressors

👇

This really helps putting my feelings into words.

A Long Day Is Done
I Have Reached My Daily Goals
Brain Fog Sets In Now

#haikuhive

@itchyfeetreader
@kristy_k
@debinhawaii
@mimi28
@thebookhippie
@jenlovesjt47
@reggie
@vivastory
@eggs
@jdiehr
@thespineview
@cbee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@anncrystal
@bellabella
@booksandcoffee4me
@dabbe

For my sweet husband💔

#whisper #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: BEAUTIFUL LIFE

Definitely my daughter's! 7 months old and already interested in books rather than toys! 📚📖

#raisingreaders

“Sorry ma‘am. We can‘t help. We‘re gritty police and yours is clearly a cozy mystery.”

I'm trying to understand how Little t could have issues with immigrants when he's first generation American by his mother, second by his father, and two of his three wives were man-made Americans.

How could Little t have hatred for immigrants?

If this is correct, this continues to make me wonder if he is using the immigration issue simply to take people's attention away from the gift he plans to give himself on his Birthday Jan. 14: Our America.

I only have 11 spots to fill … great times 📚📚📚

My adventures led me to 5 book stores I‘m really loving this adventure… now I have so many book stores to go to 📚📚📚

We're traveling and visiting family, so I've not been reading as much as usual (except for an hour of an audiobook in the car the other day), but we've been listening to a lot of music, including this Brahms waltz that showed up in my dream the other night. The first time I remembered a song from a dream and could identify it after I woke up. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ElNBOxaakZ4wEbCvZLei5?si=noxwspu3SISAG9da4Iqvag
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

So this isn‘t a haiku, but it sort of poured out of me and thought I‘d share it 🤓😂🐝💛 #haikuhive #nerdsunite #haikuaday

Again, NOT tagging everyone because this is both political and supports feminism (sorry men, I know you aren't all in agreement with what's happening). ✌️

Not only many republicans voted for Little t, there were many, many men who cast their vote simply to keep a woman from becoming president.

Men betrayed the women in their lives, which has seemingly endangered us all... girls, women, journalists, two-spirited+, Mother Earth, immigrants, etc.👇

#haikuhive

@itchyfeetreader
@kristy_k
@debinhawaii
@mimi28
@thebookhippie
@jenlovesjt47
@reggie
@vivastory
@eggs
@jdiehr
@thespineview
@cbee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@anncrystal
@bellabella
@booksandcoffee4me
@dabbe

#TuesdayTunes

Not what I listen to day to day but a clip showed up on IG and I had to go find the whole song. I‘ll be thinking about this one of a long time. Listening to it hurts my heart, as it should.

https://youtu.be/Zg0-q8-Wy_o?si=0SzZEHUppts_uKDm

@TieDyeDude

#MidsummerSolace #TimeforTea

It's time for a weekly catch-up. I hope you are all well and have had a good 2025 so far.

🍵 How are you?
🍵 Any summer plans?
🍵 Do you have good recommendations for books/movies/tv/games/apps?

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

This is the song I also posted in my #MondayMoods board yesterday. It's Hostage by TX2 and it's full of anger and power. Even though they're not trans (but do have queer members) they speak up for trans rights and this song is their hymn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRELqKofxpk&ab_channel=TX2-Topic

They can try to erase us
They feed lies to the nameless
It's so fucked up how they portray us
I'm exhausted, living like a hostage

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: ICED TEA

How refreshing does this look?

What my bingo paper looks like today … can‘t wait to get out there tomorrow 📚📚📚

So I hit about 8 book stores for the Portland book week today unfortunately three were closed including the second shapes bookstore but I was able to make that up with one that was a library but I didn‘t get a picture 🤦🏼‍♀️ so these are where I went today so many great bookstores in and around Portland Oregon

#MondayMood.
All over the place! Reaction to LA & our president: horrified.
Exhausted!!!! Need tons of coffee!
Work: we always find so many things to laugh about- resource room staff & students. 😂
My family watched a great documentary this afternoon & my hubby made dinner.

Coming in premature on the #tuesdaystunes on the way home from seeing Lucy Dacus

Silly girl, tables are for eating😬🤓📚

My holds came in…picking up No More Tears wasn‘t planned, but it was on the new release shelf, which I had to look at. Dark, informative stuff I want to get into.

Instead of writing reviews, I'm doing other stuff. Like doing a little thing for #MondayMood
I try not to close my eyes, but sometimes I also need to distract myself.

@Deblovestoread

So, the #haikuhive got me into these things 🙈 If it's okay, I would like to join you officially.

Blue lovely skies
Surrounded by green mountains
Just the dog and me

@dabbe

So I got sick of always having to put my hair up & wanted a change. I have been watching a ton of videos on YT with salons that cater to LGBT+ clients. That inspired me to do a chop and color(s) on myself. Next I just need a new face and new body. Any fairies out there that can grant me wishes? Haha

#MidsummerSolace

I'll post a little prompt every Monday to remind ourselves to take care of ourselves and each other.

Have a great week. 🌞

#MondayMoments

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: DARK AND STORMY

#JuneSpecials
Day 4. Cheese
#Cheese

It‘s been a busy two weeks (but not in terms of reading) so here‘s the roundup for the past couple of weeks. #bookreport #weeklyforecast

The two bookstores I visited for book week on Saturday will keep@posting on tomorrow stores I visit 📚

Thus we enter the Portland Book Week… well week and 3days… I have two stores down and 48 more to go… needless to say I will be very busy this week so excited to get out there and discover new book stores and participate in this bingo, book fair, and book week 📚 just hope I don‘t go over budget 🤞🏼👀 📚📚📚

I can't really join #haikuhive because I won't be able to do this every day, but your beautiful posts and this amazing day just sparkled my inspiration 💖
(and I don't even know if I'm doing this right)

@dabbe