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True Colors | Karen Traviss

Lots of folks are showing who they really are of late. It's been noted.

#mondaymood

dabbe Boy, has it! L✊🏻VE. ✊🏻💙✊🏻💙✊🏻💙 17h

CBee GIRL. You hit the nail on the head 😮‍💨 17h

Cuilin Oh yeah!!! 🫶 17h

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lil1inblue @dabbe @cbee @cuilin 💙 😏 💙 16h

TieDyeDude 😥 It is sad seeing just how many people can feign kindness and compassion and just turn on a dime. 16h

Deblovestoread True that! 💙🎯💙 15h

dabbe @TieDyeDude Gut-wrenchingly sad. 🧡💜💛 14h

Jadams89 So true. 12h

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝 Truth 🎯👏🏼😢🎯✊🏼🤨🎯 and it's good to know 🎨. (edited) 9h

lil1inblue @TieDyeDude 💙🎯 💙 7m

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Night Sky Frequencies: Poems | Debra Nystrom

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/88765/restless-after-school
#poemadayish #poetrypals
@dabbe @Cuilin

Cuilin I love the “ish” , I‘m so here for the “everything in moderation” era. Beautiful poem. 💕 20h

dabbe I love the slowness of this ... how long days sometimes seemed when we were younger. 💜💛🧡 20h

lil1inblue @Cuilin 💓 💓 💓 Love the idea of the “everything in moderation“ era! 16h

lil1inblue @dabbe So very long! ❤ 16h

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Est�s Phd

Photos of where my Dad's side of the family has found solace for 3 generations. I love this place and the people that belong. This is where I feel my wild the most, where I feel free and alive. This is where I go to heal. 💓

#badwolfbitches #wildwomen #badasswildwomen

lil1inblue @caropi @cuilin @thebookhippie @deblovestoread @zezeki @bookwormAHN @PathfinderNicole @GingerAntics @ravenlee @dabbe @ElizaMarie @ImperfectCJ @nanuska_153 @ncsufoxes 21h

Deblovestoread All the lovely water and the peace it brings. 21h

TheBookHippie So so lovely. 21h

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Cuilin Looks so peaceful ☺️ 20h

dabbe And I can see why it's so healing! W💙W. 💙🩵💙 20h

lil1inblue @deblovestoread @thebookhippie @cuilin @dabbe 💙 💙 💙 16h

AnnCrystal
🤩💝💝💝. 9h

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Est�s Phd

I'm 100% Finnish-American, so saunas have always had a cultural significance in my family. For me sauna is a cleansing, healing ritual. I have many memories of taking sauna with generations of women.

#badwolfbitches #wildwomen #badasswildwomen

lil1inblue @caropi @cuilin @thebookhippie @deblovestoread @zezeki @bookwormAHN @PathfinderNicole @GingerAntics @ravenlee @dabbe @ElizaMarie @ImperfectCJ @nanuska_153 @ncsufoxes 22h

Cuilin How fantastic!!! Love it!! 21h

dabbe 💜💛🧡 20h

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lil1inblue @cuilin @dabbe 💓 💓 💓 16h

kspenmoll Wonderful! 16h

AnnCrystal Epic 👏🏼☺️👌🏼 saunas are truly medicine 💝💝💝. 9h

lil1inblue @kspenmoll @anncrystal ❤ 💖 ❤ 5m

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Est�s Phd

This album got me through high school. Silent All These Years has specifically spoken to me ever since I first heard it. Finding my voice again was everything.

https://youtu.be/HSYr0etDzRM?si=vW1UK80rXr3m0aUr

And also:
White Flag by Joseph: https://youtu.be/x3kXDMPwfMc?si=EGwLK1qyoBD5mhEi
The Bullpen by Dessa: https://youtu.be/vvi3UDQdl7k?si=HgcjtdvE1vVmEEDT

#badwolfbitches #wildwomen

lil1inblue @caropi @cuilin @thebookhippie @deblovestoread @zezeki @bookwormAHN @PathfinderNicole @GingerAntics @ravenlee @dabbe @ElizaMarie @ImperfectCJ @nanuska_153 @ncsufoxes 23h

TheBookHippie Oh I agree this is so good! 23h

CBee Ohhhh I absolutely LOVE Tori and this album also got me through some tough times. Awesome post 💚💚 23h

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Chrissyreadit oh!!! Yes! this song always made me cry- and Tori Amos is amazing. ❤️ 22h

lil1inblue @thebookhippie @cbee @chrissyreadit This album is everything to me. I don't fan girl much because I'm such a mood listener/reader/watcher, but I do fan girl for Tori. 😍 21h

dabbe L 💜VE this! 💜💛🧡 20h

CBee @lil1inblue same 😍😍 17h

lil1inblue @dabbe ❤ 💛 ❤ 16h

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Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle: Poems | Freya Manfred

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53405/green-pear-tree-in-september

#poemaday #poetrypals
@dabbe @Cuilin

dabbe What visions in this one! 💚🍐💛 3d

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Beetlejuice Talking Handbook for the Recently Deceased [With Battery] | Running Press

Lots of favorites on yesterday's #threelistthursday, but I chose 3 plus an honorable mention that I have to watch in the Fall.
1. Beetlejuice
2. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
3. Clue
4. I didn't see Rocky Horror on the list, but it's an October must-see! 🤩

#tlt @dabbe

AmyG Oh how I loved Rocky Horror at midnight. 4d

dabbe Fab choices! Especially ROCKY HORROR! I agree with @AmyG ... such fun back in high school to watch it in the theater at midnight. And Tim Curry singing “Sweet Transvestite“ ... so sexy! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜🧡💛 4d

lil1inblue @AmyG The local theatre used perform the musical every October, and always had a midnight show on Halloween. I'm not sure why they stopped, but I miss it soooo much! 4d

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lil1inblue @dabbe My sister-in-law and I have such a Tim Curry obsession. 😍 😍 😍 4d

Roary47 Clue is one of my favs too! Such an amazing movie. 🥰 3d

lil1inblue @Roary47 It's so much fun! 🥰 3d

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Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition | Michael Nordskog, David Salmela

I forget how healing saunas are for me both physically and mentally. I took one on Wednesday when I couldn't take the joint pain anymore, and it did wonders. I really need to get on a sauna schedule.

#haikuaday #haikuhive

lil1inblue @jari-chan @dabbe @itchyfeetreader @kristy_k @debinhawaii @mimi28
@thebookhippie @jenlovesjt47 @reggie @vivastory @jdiehr
@cbee @julieclair @anncrystal @bellabella @booksandcoffee4me @susanita
@kelli7990 @vivastory @The_Book_Ninja 4d

JenlovesJT47 Ooh this is a good idea for joint pain. I have the joints of an 80-year-old woman (at least it feels that way!) 👵🏻😆♥️ 4d

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 #hardsame 💓 4d

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dabbe Your words made my shoulder feel better! 💜🧡💛 4d

KadaGul @JenlovesJT47 I can 💯 relate to your feelings. My pain is in the muscles. 🤣🤣🤣 4d

JenlovesJT47 @KadaGul sorry to hear that! Grannies unite! 🙌🏻👵🏻😆 4d

lil1inblue If you refer to my 5 joys Friday post, we have a club. @jenlovesjt47 and @kadagul - you are officially members. @dabbe is a member, too. Welcome. Our secret handshake is just a regular handshake, but our joints crack when we do it. 😂 💓 4d

dabbe @lil1inblue #wellsaid 🎯😂🎯 4d

AnnCrystal Medicine for both physical and mental health 👏🏼🐝👍🏼😉🐝💝. 4d

julieclair So glad you were able to find some relief! 3d

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal The best kind! 🥰 3d

lil1inblue @julieclair Thank you! 🥰 3d

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For Joy's Sake | Tara Taylor Quinn

The weather has done no favors for my joints this week, so it's been a week of rest and healing. And that's ok. Because rest is productive. 💓

#5joysfriday @debinhawaii

Eggbeater I have joint problems, too. We could be meteorologists together. I know how it goes. 🫂 I hope it's better soon. 4d

CBee @Eggbeater @lil1inblue can I be in on this meteorologist group? I‘m definitely a member of the joint pain club 🙄😅 4d

lil1inblue @eggbeater @cbee Welcome to the club. It's not much fun, but we cope with sarcasm and junk food. 😂 💓 4d

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dabbe @lil1inblue @eggbeater @CBee Could this also include the “cracking-knees“ club? As in every time I stand, both knees crack and let me know they're unhappy. 💜🧡💛 4d

Eggbeater @lil1inblue @CBee I think coping with junk food and sarcasm is perfect. I got a brownie today. Only one, because I will eat a whole pan otherwise. And yes, @dabbe , Rice Krispy knees count. You have the right to be sarcastic and eat chocolate. 4d

lil1inblue @dabbe I believe “creaking or cracking joints“ is on the list of items that allow immediate membership. You should hear mine this week - I sound like rice krispies. 😂 💓 4d

JenlovesJT47 We can call ourselves the creak-n-crack girls 😆👵🏻 @Eggbeater @CBee @dabbe @lil1inblue 🙌🏻 4d

dabbe @lil1inblue Lordy be, I know EXACTLY what that sounds like and feels like! 💜😂🧡 4d

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I love it! The #ccgs 😍 4d

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Ha! Love it. 😂 😂 😂 4d

CBee @JenlovesJT47 ha! I love it 👏🏻 4d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 4d

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💓🥰💓 3d

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Glow of Our Sweat | Francisco Arag�n

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90990/asleep-you-become-a-continent
#poemaday #poetrypals
@cuilin @dabbe

Cuilin Fabulous 😴 🛌🩶 4d

dabbe L💜VE. 💜🧡💛 4d

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By the Autumn Trees | Muhammad Arslan Qadeer

#haikuhive #haikuaday

DebinHawaii So descriptive & beautiful! 🍁🍂💛🐝💛 6d

JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous! ❤️🧡💛 6d

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AmyG Lovely haiku. 6d

dabbe You've brought the leaves to life as flames. L🍁VE! 🧡🩶💜 6d

AnnCrystal Incredible capturing of the fall season 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🍂💫🍂🐝💝. 6d

lil1inblue @debinhawaii @jenlovesjt47 @amyg @dabbe @anncrystal Thank y'all! 🤎🥰❤️ 6d

julieclair “Match flames” “ignite”! Love this description of the colors of Fall. 👏👏🍁🍂🍁 5d

lil1inblue @julieclair Thank you! 😍 4d

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Snacks: A Canadian Food History | Janis Thiessen

We do not care that we texted "Bring snacks" to our husband on his way home, and this was the result. We trained him well. ???

#wdncw #wedonotcarewednesday @dabbe

TheBookHippie He‘s a keeper 🙃 6d

BkClubCare Well done 👏 6d

Ruthiella He understood the assignment! 👏👏👏 6d

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AmyG 🙌🏻❤️ 6d

dabbe OMG! He is the best! 🧡🩶💜 6d

lil1inblue @thebookhippie @bkclubcare @ruthiella @amyg @dabbe We don't care that we're eating mini donuts and chocolate in bed with a heating pad while re-re-re-re-re-watching Gilmore Girls. 🥰 6d

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue pure bliss. 6d

wildwoodreads Literally the best! I‘m going to have to train mine to bring celery or something though because my sweet tooth has become ridiculous 😂😂😂 6d

AnnCrystal
👏🏼🤩🥳👍🏼😋👌🏼💝. 6d

willaful GOOD husband! 5d

lil1inblue @wildwoodreads @anncrystal @willaful He's a keeper! I'm a lucky lady. 😍 4d

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Night Garden: Poems | Judith Harris

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141678/how-quiet
#poemaday #poetrypals
@dabbe @Cuilin

Cuilin I love twill as a verb. Beautiful. 🌲 6d

lil1inblue @Cuilin It makes such a lovely sound. 💚 💚 💚 6d

dabbe W💚W. The religious part at the end is soul-searching. 🧡🩶💜 6d

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lil1inblue @dabbe I loved the combination of nature and religion. 💚 6d

dabbe @lil1inblue That's where the idea of a god is to me, in nature. 🧡🩶💜 6d

lil1inblue @dabbe Same - I've always found my spirituality in nature. 💚 4d

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A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn

An earlier edition of this book sat on my parents' bookshelf for most of my life. I'm finally diving in. 😅

#realhistory #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingispolitical

dabbe I can't wait to read what you think about it. I've read bit and pieces but never the whole. People at my high school tried to ban it. And this was before the #cheetosatan years. 😵‍💫 6d

lil1inblue @dabbe I got through Chapter 1 last night. I have a feeling I'm going to be posting about this one a lot. And I am unsurprised, though saddened, that people have tried/are trying to ban it. It challenges our savior narrative. 😏 6d

dabbe @lil1inblue 🩵🎯🩵 6d

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Est�s Phd

I read the intro and underlined about 90% of it. After sitting with it for a few days, this section about fear was what I kept coming back to. Fear and anger are emotions that are inextricably linked for me. If I feel one, the other follows almost instaneously. Because I taught myself early on to suppress those feelings, I believed they were bad emotions. ⬇️

lil1inblue It took a long time (and is still an ongoing process) to see that anger and fear can even be useful and necessary, and that I can harness them, instead of letting them fester and kill or trap my spirit. 7d

lil1inblue @caropi @cuilin @thebookhippie @deblovestoread @zezeki @bookwormAHN @PathfinderNicole @GingerAntics @ravenlee @dabbe @ElizaMarie @ImperfectCJ @nanuska_153 @ncsufoxes 7d

lil1inblue #wildwomen #badasswildwomen #badwolfbitches 💓💓💓 7d

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TheBookHippie USE THEM FOR YOU. 💕💕💕💕💕 7d

dabbe Such an excellent word for what you're feeling: HARNESS. 💜🩶🧡
6d

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🫂💝💝💝. 6d

Sparklemn Love it! 6d

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie 💓💓💓💓💓 6d

lil1inblue @dabbe 🥰💓💓💓 6d

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 🫂💓 6d

lil1inblue @Sparklemn Thank you! 💓 6d

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Proof | Karina Borowicz

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56583/september-tomatoes
#poemaday #poetrypals
@cuilin @dabbe

Cuilin Lovely, 🍅❤️ 🍅 7d

dabbe I'm sad for the tomatoes! 💚🍅💚 7d

lil1inblue @Cuilin 💖🥰💖 7d

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lil1inblue @dabbe I know, right?!?! 💚🍅❤️ 7d

Sparklemn It breaks my heart when I have to dispose of my flowers at the end of summer. ☹️ 6d

lil1inblue @Sparklemn Same! 😥 6d

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Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

All the discussion of slang in today's chapter reminded me of this article from 2019. It's not necessarily related to the book, but I found it interesting. My brain goes down weird rabbit holes sometimes. 🙃

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47790128

#readlesmis @thebookhippie

TheBookHippie I‘m a rabbit hole queen! We were just talking about the French language at school with the teachers. 1w

Cuilin Interesting. (It reminded me of Cockney rhyming slang.) I love disappearing down a rabbit hole and starting a new fixation. 🤦‍♀️ 1w

lil1inblue @cuilin @thebookhippie I'm fascinated by the evolution and blending of languages, so anything that even borders on that will send me down the rabbit hole. 🙃 Slang origins can be particularly intriguing. 🤓 7d

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TheBookHippie @lil1inblue 💙💙💙💙 7d

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue Yiddish is like that a bit. 7d

tpixie @lil1inblue Interesting! I think you have found your rabbit hole family! 🐰 🕳️ 4d

lil1inblue @tpixie And that's why I adore litsy. 😍 4d

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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself | Judy Blume

pick

Utterly delightful. Sally's imagination reminded me of my own as a child. It's probably my favorite Judy Blume so far! 🤩

Read as a replacement for #childrensclassicread2025 because I read Blubber earlier this year. Thanks for the suggestion @thebookhippie and @cbee! Love, love, love this book!

TheBookHippie It‘s my fav!!! I‘m so glad you loved it! 1w

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel | Robin Sloan

pick

Soft pick. Entertaining, but nothing special. I was hoping for something more complex.

AnnCrystal That's a brilliant qoute 👏🏼🤩🪄📚💝 . 1w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 🤩🤩🤩 7d

Bookperson96 Have to agree with @AnnCrystal ❣️ 7d

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Sunny Day: Usborne Picture Books | Elena Temporin, Anna Milbourne

I'm sorry I've been a bit scarce. I had some sort of bug last week, and the cold, cloudy days did not help my mood. But the sun is shining today, and I'm feeling myself again!

#haikuhive #haikuaday

lil1inblue @jari-chan @dabbe @itchyfeetreader @kristy_k @debinhawaii @mimi28
@thebookhippie @jenlovesjt47 @reggie @vivastory @jdiehr
1w

lil1inblue

@cbee @julieclair @anncrystal @bellabella @booksandcoffee4me @susanita
@kelli7990 @vivastory @the_book_ninja

1w

Dilara Glad you're feeling better! 1w

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JenlovesJT47 💙🩵💙 glad you‘re feeling better! 1w

julieclair So glad today is a brighter day! 1w

dabbe So glad you're better! Your words brightened up my day as well. 💙🩵💙 1w

lil1inblue @dilara @jenlovesjt47 @julieclair @dabbe Thank you! 💓 💖 💓 1w

Cuilin 🩷🩵🩷 1w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝 Lovely Haiku, glad you're feeling better 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🌞🐝💝💝💝. 1w

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Poetry | Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=134&issue=6&page=3...

#poemaday #poetrypals
@dabbe @Cuilin

Cuilin I love this 💚🧡💛🤎🤍 1w

dabbe L🧡VERLY. 🧡💜🧡 1w

lil1inblue @cuilin @dabbe ❤ 💖 ❤ 1w

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Rounding It Out: A Cycle of Sonnetelles | Robert Pack

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=170&issue=6&page=1...

#poemaday
@dabbe @Cuilin

Cuilin 💜🩶💜 2w

dabbe I love that I had to look up how to pronounce some of these flowers! 💜💛💜 2w

Eggbeater Beautiful 2w

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The Eyes Have It | Anne Harding Woodworth

In case you need an excuse to treat yourself today, it is Eat an Extra Dessert Day. 😋

#poemaday

dabbe 🧡💜💛 2w

Cuilin Lovely ☺️ 2w

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Reading Glasses | Jessica Walsh, Amy Hollinger

One more because *this* just happened. 🙃🤪🫠

#wdncw @dabbe

Susanita I feel your pain! I have to keep track of my spouse‘s glasses as well as my own. 2w

AmyG I have reading glasses in every room. 2w

dabbe 😂🤩😂 Like @AmyG, I have reading glasses in every room, and I still end up losing them, or all of a sudden one room will have 5 of them. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2w

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TheBookHippie If it helps I tried to put on two pair 😝 2w

lil1inblue @AmyG @dabbe SAME! And I have 4 pairs at work. 😂 And I'm still constantly searching for them. 🙃 2w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie I tried to put mine on over sunglasses once. 😂 2w

lil1inblue @Susanita This is my mom's burden, as well. 😂 My husband's are always on, so he's usually the one helping me keep track. 🙃 2w

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue exactly what I did 2w

mcctrish My husband may have wrote me from school today to say he‘d forgotten his glasses after he told me this morning before he left “oh wait, I‘ve got to grab my glasses” dear reader, he did not grab his glasses 2w

rubyslippersreads I have to wear my glasses all the time, so at least this is one problem I don‘t have. 😁 2w

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼😂🤓👌🏼💝. 2w

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Boundaries | Anne Katherine

And no, I will not elaborate. 😏

#wdncw ##wedonotcarewednesday @dabbe

dabbe Such a necessary protection to get through this thing called life. 💛💜🧡 2w

TheBookHippie 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 2w

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼😉👌🏼💝. 2w

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Unlocked: The Laureate Years | Andru Defeye

https://poets.org/poem/falling-1

*The poem is actually from Illicit by Andru Defeye, but it wasn't in the database
#poemaday

dabbe 🩵🩷🩵 2w

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A Little Ray of Sunshine | Kristan Higgins

Web photo because cats never cooperate with the camera. 😹😹😹

#haikuhive #haikuaday

Ruthiella My cat is not photogenic at all! 😂 2w

Jari-chan 😻 😻 😻 2w

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JenlovesJT47 😻😻😻 2w

Susanita No, they don‘t! 2w

dabbe You've captured the cat psyche perfectly! 🖤🐾🖤 2w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼😹👍🏼🐝💝. 2w

lil1inblue @ruthiella @jari-chan @jenlovesjt47 @susanita @dabbe @anncrystal ❤😻 ❤ 2w

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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur | Dean Van Nguyen

I'm reading the tagged book, so I'm also revisiting 2Pac's albums in chronological order. I know his first album isn't considered his best musically or production-wise. But he had so much to say! I find the power of the words overshadows any production short-comings.

#tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude

TheBookHippie Same. His lyrics are everything. 2w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie ❤ 2w

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Little Silver | JANE. GRIFFITHS

https://spare.poems.com/poem/waking/

#poemaday

Eggbeater Awesome! Thanks for posting the link! 2w

dabbe 💛💜🧡 2w

lil1inblue @Eggbeater You are most welcome! 😍 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💓 💓 💓 2w

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September, September | Shelby Foote

I keep forgetting to post reviews, so I did a #monthlywrapup in case I don't get to them. 🙃
(Also forgot to put a thumbs up on Citizen. 5 star required reading.)

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Untitled | Unknown

MisterInBlue and I love to experiment with campfire cooking when we're camping. I thought this would be perfect for us. Also, Johan says it's #caturday and I should be petting him, not playing with books. 😹😹😹

#bookhaul #cookbook #familiarsoflitsy

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 2w

AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2w

lil1inblue @ruthiella @anncrystal Johan says hi! 😻 2w

AnnCrystal @lil1inblue
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Come on All You Ghosts | Matthew Zapruder

#poemaday #frankensteinday

Eggbeater I can't read this tiny print, but I always take a screenshot of the poems you post and enlarge them on my phone because they are always so good! 💙 2w

lil1inblue @Eggbeater Aww, that makes me smile. 😍 I'll try to remember to post the links in the future for easier reading! 💓 2w

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The Good Tarot: Guidebook | Colette Baron-Reid

#haikuhive #haikuaday #haikutarot

JenlovesJT47 Pretty cards!! My French oracle came in last night, can‘t wait to use them. ♥️♥️♥️ love the haiku 2w

AnnCrystal 🤩 The Good Tarot deck! Beautiful 💖. Favorited your Tree deck, now this one too! “Find Hope In Embers“ brilliant 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🥲🐝💝. 2w

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AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 can't wait 👏🏼🤩💖. 2w

dabbe A much-needed on today. 🩶🤍🖤 2w

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 I felt called to a different deck. 😂 I can't wait to see your French oracle cards (and the haikus)! 😍 2w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal I've had this one for a while. It's one of my favorites. I keep getting called back to it. 💓 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💓 🤗 💓 2w

dabbe That last line: W💚W. 💛💜🧡 2w

AnnCrystal @lil1inblue magical artwork 👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝. 2w

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Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places | Trebbe Johnson

I needed this exercise this week. I'm angry. I'm overwhelmed by bad news. I hate the patterns I'm seeing in my community. But there is still joy to be found.

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

Deblovestoread Yay for a good night‘s sleep! And coffee and joys! 💙 3w

dabbe You've inspired me to do one of these, too, this week. There is joy still to be found. 🩶🤍🖤 3w

Leftcoastzen Yay! Love these Joys ! 3w

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lil1inblue @Deblovestoread 💓😍 💓 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe I'm so glad. 💓 3w

lil1inblue @Leftcoastzen 💓 🤗 💓 3w

S3V3N Magic Mocha 😋 3w

lil1inblue @S3V3N So much yummy. 😋 3w

AnnCrystal 🪄💕💕💕💕💕. 2w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 🤗 2w

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Every Day We Get More Illegal | Juan Felipe Herrera

Border patrol pulled over a woman very near my work this morning. I'm sure it was absolutely necessary to have 2 border patrol cars, 2 county cops, and a state cop all there for a 5 foot tall woman and her toddler child. What a production. I'm so angry. 🤬🤬🤬

#poemaday #nooneisillegalonstolenland

Dilara So sorry this is happening in your country. (And also very scared that the rest of the world will follow suit.) 3w

AmyG A horror. 3w

lil1inblue @Dilara 💓🫂💓 3w

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lil1inblue @AmyG It's utterly disgusting. 3w

Amiable 🤬 3w

Deblovestoread I just can‘t with these people! It is infuriating and makes one feel helpless. 🤬 3w

lil1inblue @Amiable 🎯 3w

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread 🎯 3w

dabbe Your 2nd hashtag just gobsmacked me. #nooneisillegalonstolenland 🎯🩵🎯 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💓 💓 💓 3w

AnnCrystal 🥺😢🫂🤨🥺. 2w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💓 💓 💓 2w

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Women who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman | Clarissa Pinkola Est's

Before we were Mortals by Michelle Kingdom

This one speaks to me in 2 ways:
1. Community is so important, especially community with other women (and women, of course, includes our trans sisters, just so we're clear)
2. It's fiber art, which has often been relegated to the realm of "crafts," because it has traditionally been a female art form.

@Chrissyreadit

lil1inblue @caropi @cuilin @thebookhippie @deblovestoread @zezeki @bookwormAHN @pathfindernicole @gingerantics @ravenlee @imperfectcj @nanuska_153 @ncsufoxes 3w

Cuilin I love this!!! 3w

Deblovestoread Beautiful! 3w

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TheBookHippie Beautiful!!! 3w

dabbe L🩶VE! 🩶🤍🖤 3w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 3w

lil1inblue @cuilin @deblovestoread @thebookhippie @dabbe @anncrystal 💛 💚 💙 3w

BookwormAHN Gorgeous ❤️ 3w

ElizaMarie I love this! 3w

Chrissyreadit This image is stunning! perfect post 💛💛💛 2w

Jari-chan 💖💖💖 2w

lil1inblue @bookwormAHN @ElizaMarie @Chrissyreadit @jari-chan 💚 💛 💚 2w

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One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy | Dominic Erdozain

#haikuhive #haikuaday #fuckyourguns

JenlovesJT47 It‘s so awful 😞 3w

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 My heart breaks. So much innocence lost. 💔 3w

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dabbe Completely #gutpunched by what happened and by your words. 🩶🤍🖤 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe 🖤🖤🖤 3w

Amiable This haiku is perfection. 3w

AnnCrystal 💔❤️‍🩹 A little hero, I can't believe our kids have to worry about this...👏🏼🐝🥺🐝💝. 3w

IriDas I was at a school site today doing some work and came across their “emergency bucket.” They claim it‘s for natural disasters on the label, but here in Cali, in the city, there is only one disaster we fear at school. I‘m so sick of these disgusting gun people claiming we can‘t do anything about this when literally every nation has done something about it except us. 3w

Suet624 Sick people allow this to happen. Vote everyone out and start over. 3w

lil1inblue @IriDas 🙌 🙌 🙌 3w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal They should never have to even think about these things! 3w

lil1inblue @Suet624 🎯 🎯 🎯 3w

lil1inblue @Amiable 🖤🖤🖤 3w

AnnCrystal @lil1inblue truth 😢😭🥺. 2w

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Hill We Climb: Poems | Amanda Gorman

#poemaday #fuckyourguns

*Disclaimer: This poem isn't in the tagged book. I believe it was only published online.

Deblovestoread I love her so much! Thanks for sharing! 💙 3w

CBee 💔💔💔 3w

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread She's so very talented! 💙 3w

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lil1inblue @CBee 💔 💓 💔 3w

dabbe So P🩶WERFUL. 🩶🤍🖤 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💔🖤 💔 3w

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Cats Cats Cats! | St�phane Lapuss'

We do not care about anything when this fella is our snuggle buddy for the evening. 😹😻😹

#wdncw #wedonotcarewednesday #familiarsoflitsy @dabbe

kspenmoll ❤️💜🩷😻 3w

RaeLovesToRead So much handsome 🥰🥰🥰 3w

Leftcoastzen Nice! 😸🥰 3w

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rubyslippersreads Looks a lot like my Nicky! 😻 3w

Suet624 Beautiful! 3w

rebcamuse Oh, he looks so much like my booboo who crossed the rainbow bridge in June. What a handsome 🐈‍⬛ 3w

rebcamuse And I am all in on #WeDoNotCareWednesday 3w

AnnCrystal 👸😻👏🏼🤩👌🏼💝. 3w

Read-n-Bloom This is so true! Our cares just go away! 😉🥰🙂 3w

Jari-chan 😻😻😻 3w

dabbe #photocontestwinner! 🩶🤍🖤 3w

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The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

I've read a fair number of articles about this controversy, but this is the first one that addresses the ableism of it all. It's worth the read.

https://lithub.com/nature-is-not-going-to-cure-you-on-raynor-winns-fabricated-me...

shortsarahrose Thanks for sharing this article! I have not read The Salt Path or heard about the controversy, but I am always down to read a solid critique of ableist discourse. I might have to read some of Polly Atkin‘s own work now. 3w

IriDas Thanks. I will enjoy this thoroughly. I‘ve been trying to tell people this when I was in academia and they would just throw supposed research that proves their point, while never questioning what sorts of people were included and excluded in the research. Now we‘ve got some sh*t head (RFK,jr) saying we need to send our autistic children to “camps” and “farms” to cure them. 3w

lil1inblue @shortsarahrose You're most welcome! I added 2 of Polly Atkin's books to my TBR after reading the article. I really appreciated this perspective. 3w

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lil1inblue @IriDas 🙌 🙌 🙌 3w

ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you! I was reading an article about their lies that started with why they actually lost their house and I realized "Moth" was still making appearances and how unbelievable that would be. I had not realized until then how long ago they started pulling this scam. 3w

squirrelbrain When the news first broke in the UK there were stories of people with the same condition that Moth supposedly had, who had been given hope by reading his story - so sad. 😞 3w

Suet624 Great article. Thank you for sharing it with us. 3w

Kitta @IriDas I work as a scientist and we spend years learning how to properly read and understand research papers - the content but also who is writing, who was studied, the conflicts of interest! It‘s so important and not something others are trained to do. I‘m not saying they shouldn‘t read the papers but they need to understand research in context. It frustrates me when I see people citing that awful Wakefield paper about vaccines & autism. 😡 3w

Kitta The more I read about this book the more angry I get. 3w

Deblovestoread Thanks for this. I was interested in the book until seeing the controversy. Now interested in supporting Polly Atkin instead. 💙 3w

IriDas @Kitta university was where I realized that far too many of my profs, including a physicist with a PhD, didn‘t take that lesson seriously enough. 3w

Kitta @IriDas 😢 that sucks. It‘s so necessary. 3w

BookNAround I‘ve been trying to ignore this news because I have this book on my tbr shelves (I bought it when it first came out) and I hate to not read something I spent money on. Argh!!! 3w

lil1inblue @squirrelbrain Ugh. That's so sad. 3w

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread Same! 💓 3w

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Archaic Smile | A.E. Stallings

The School of Dreams by A.E. Stallings

#poemaday

dabbe A whoah one. 🩶🤍🖤 3w

Suet624 Wow. Definitely one of those dreams you have about school, well represented! 3w

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Don't Wake Me | Martin Kr�ger

I have a lot of sleep problems. I've learned to take sleep when I can get it. Do. Not. Wake. Me. I will awaken in fight/flight/freeze mode, and I will be irrationally angry. And I do not care.

#wdncw #wedonotcarewednesday @dabbe

TheBookHippie ALLLLL OF THIS!!!!!! 3w

Bookwormjillk YES! Unless the house is on fire or floating down the creek do not wake me up! 3w

lil1inblue I swear Lit Hub and Electric Lit are tracking my conversations. Today on Electric Lit: “Expensive Naps I've Taken“ https://electricliterature.com/expensive-naps-ive-taken-by-ali-solomon/ 🙃 3w

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lil1inblue @thebookhippie @bookwormjilk I love MisterInBlue, but I did not like him Sunday evening. 😤 3w

AmyG Ooooh, I get this. 3w

willaful Tell MisterInBlue we all have your back, so he better tread carefully! 😏 3w

dabbe I think a lot of us can empathize with this! And I hope your sleep struggles improve--though it's probably a daily challenge, isn't it? 🩶🤍🖤 3w

Suet624 I wish I could tell my brain all of this. That‘s the bugger that wakes me up every night. 3w

Lesliereadsalot Try counting backwards from 300 by 3s. I read this in an article written by a sleep doctor and I‘ve had some success. 3w

Deblovestoread How much better life would be if sleep weren‘t such an f ing issue. I feel this in my very bones. 3w

AnnCrystal 💤👸👏🏼🥱👌🏼💝. (edited) 3w

lil1inblue @willaful 😂 He did feel really bad about it afterwards, so he's safe...for now. 😏 3w

lil1inblue @AmyG 💓 💓 💓 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe #MissPeri seems to be exacerbating things a bit, so we'll see what happens! 💓 💓 💓 3w

lil1inblue @Suet624 I get that! 💓 3w

lil1inblue @Lesliereadsalot intriguing... 💓 💓 💓 3w

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread 🙌 🙌 🙌 3w

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The Complete Poems | Anne Sexton

#favoritepoems #poemaday

dabbe 🩶🖤🤍 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe 🖤🖤🖤 3w

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The National Value of Art | Aurobindo Ghose

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art

https://www.utrgv.edu/claa/exhibitions/rigoberto-gonzalez/index.htm

https://www.rair.org/rigoberto-gonzalez

https://www.utep.edu/rubin/exhibitions/past/baroque-on-the-border.html

#haikuhive #haikuaday #antifabookclub #overcomingevilempires

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 3w

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Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine

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Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery | Kerry Greenwood

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#palettecleanser #haikureview #haikuhive #haikuaday

Thanks for the rec @jenlovesjt47 - what fun! 🤩

lil1inblue @jari-chan @dabbe @itchyfeetreader @kristy_k @debinhawaii @mimi28
@thebookhippie @reggie @vivastory @jdiehr
@cbee @julieclair @anncrystal @bellabella @booksandcoffee4me @susanita
@kelli7990 @vivastory @the_book_ninja 3w

dabbe AD😍RE this #haikureview! 🧡💜💛 3w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💓😍 💓 3w

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JenlovesJT47 Ohh yay this makes me so happy!! 🤗🥳 I love this series so much (books and show are both great in different ways). They are especially good on audio. ♥️♥️♥️ 3w

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 It was so much fun, and so, so satisfying! Sometimes you just need some hijinks and a happy ending! Thanks again for recommending! 3w

AnnCrystal Love this, captures the show perfectly 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📺🤩🎬🐝💝. 3w

JenlovesJT47 🤗🤗🤗 3w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💓 😍 💓 3w

julieclair Love this #HaikuReview ! 3w

lil1inblue @julieclair Thank you! 😍 3w

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Pattern Recognition | William Gibson