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christinabelle.bsky.social
writes. plays. creativity + spirituality = passion. wanderer. wonderer. episcopalian. www.ripplesinthefont.com
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At least ten armed officers blocked a lone young woman from trying to get home. The best idea to defuse the situation the ten could think up was to yell at her for a few seconds and then shoot her with rubber bullets.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Odin’s Day treasures from the Austin Public Library. 5 borrowed and Pachinko was on the Recycled Reads for sale shelf. I’m excited about all of them, but will probably begin with The River Has Roots. Although Sister, Sinner, about Aimee Semple McPherson has the lure of the unknown.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, @sgj.bsky.social. Thought I would binge it as soon as I opened it, but my heart needed time for the words to go where they needed to, to absorb the sorrow. I’m still sniffling a little. Always love the afterwords. Thank you for this book.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I’m eagerly awaiting Is a River Alive, by Robert Macfarlane. Field Notes has this set of little memo books. They feel so good in the hand. The list of practical applications on the back inside cover makes me smile. I’ll have fun figuring out how to play with them. @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social

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EXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.

submitted 36 days ago • 71 comments

Friday night fiction! It’s finally time to read @sgj.bsky.social Graham Jones’s latest novel, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Wanted to be able to devote my whole being to this highly-anticipated work. He is one of my favorite writers, horror and otherwise. Almost halfway through.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Good Friday Night Fiction

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Post a movie from the year you turned 18.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I picked The Buffalo Hunter Hunter up last Thursday. I find myself nursing the anticipation. Once I crack the spine, I’ll binge the book, which will be a good, deep water experience, but then I’ll have to return to the surface. @sgj.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.

submitted 76 days ago • 1439 comments

Tonight might be rough, so take this hungry tiny turtle.

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Friday night fiction—The Full Moon Coffee Shop (ebook).

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Friday night fiction—finally got to check Martyr! out from the library!

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Yes yes yes. It's not that I'm not outraged all the time but I simply cannot live at peak outrage every day. I'm trying so hard to keep my attention on what I can control. Do the best work I can. Care for everyone I personally can. Take and make and share joy and delight and pleasure when I can.

submitted 137 days ago • 7 comments

Commit the sin of empathy.

submitted 137 days ago • 98 comments

Here’s the review I wrote of The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. mbird.com/literature/a...

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Atlas could never.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Friday night fiction—time to begin Murakami’s THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS.

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If only we had a robust system of local businesses and free public institutions, where readers could browse and speak with professionals, perhaps called "booksellers" and "librarians"! If only publishers supported them with the same fervor they have for... individual artists doing their own promo?

submitted 145 days ago • 9 comments