dcswanson.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

They say a #guilty conscience can feel like it’s a curse, but when you know you’re wrong, and say you’re right, I think it’s worse. #vss365

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme I pray for better days ahead but pine for what we’ve lost. I feel there’s time to bridge our gaps but fear the lines we’ve crossed. I wish we’d love all neighbors but I worry we’ve picked sides. I hope we find resolve to change and help end our divides. www.dcswanson.com #vss365

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The most effective #lullaby is not, in fact, a song. Just talk about your day at work- your kids won’t stay up long. #vss365

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

DC's Daily Rhyme- www.dcswanson.com Compassion from a distance may seem abstract, but it’s real We need not see a person’s face to know the pain they feel It’s good to love thy neighbor, but we never should forget To save up some compassion for the neighbors we’ve not met. From my #vss365 archives

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 16 Some people scorn on immigrants. I wish that they'd just can it. The truth is we're all neighbors, and it's not that big a planet. www.dcswanson.com A poem from my #vss365 archives

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 14 Don't despair and don't despise; when life knocks you down, just rise. www.dcswanson.com from my #vss365 archives

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 14 Absence of kinetic motion leaves us frozen in our fate. So, get up and build momentum toward a future you create. www.dcswanson.com From my #vss365 archives

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - www.dcswanson.com I like poems that have no purpose other than they make me smile. I think rhymes can work, sometimes, to help unwind our minds a while. (from my #vss365 archives)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 12 Advertisements track our movements. Algorithms train our brains. Wish we could rewind and find that place in time where peace of mind remains. (another old #vss365 tweet that I am posting on my author website - www.dcswanson.com)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 11 I scroll down a screen and the onslaught begins; I open a book and my peace of mind wins. www.dcswanson.com #vss365

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme - March 10 Words can serve as weapons for attacking or defending Words can sow division or can bring a schism’s ending Words can educate, or obfuscate and be confusing Whether words prove bad or good depends which words you’re choosing. www.dcswanson.com (An old #vss365 post)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We constantly scroll Through the #rigamarole That the billionaires use to distract us In hopes we ignore How they keep taking more And the ways that their system has cracked us. #vss365

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s daily rhyme - March 9 Always seek a bright side, even when it’s grim. Hope does not desert us when the sky grows dim. Don’t let shadows scare you; they mean there’s still light. If we hold together, we’ll get through the night. (posting old #vss365 rhymes on my website -www.dcswanson.com)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Some go with the flow and then drift with the tide. Some stand like a dam and do not step aside. Some seek middle ground and establish a #weir for water flows best when it's water you steer. #vss365

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.’s Daily Rhyme - March 8 Sometimes, rhyme can help infuse sincerity in words you choose. www.dcswanson.com (I am daily re-posting past #vss365 entries on my author website.)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

There is a condition called “billionaire brain.” It makes you think everyone’s glad when you gain And that there’s no harm from the rules that you break And that all debates benefit from your take. The ailment is grim-the best we can do for them is, like #Pomeranian barks, just ignore them. #vss365

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm told that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree and yet, no tree or #copse thereof inspires poems like you, my love. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

D.C.'s Daily Rhyme for March 7 - www.dcswanson.com Words can share life's truths, or shroud them. Words can clear up facts, or cloud them. Words can set things straight, or break them. Words can make dreams real, or fake them. (one of my old #vss365 poems from years ago)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If I could travel back in time to March the 6th, 2009 and see that beaming brand new dad, I'd tell him of the joy I've had in watching that sweet child grow into the grownup I now know. I'd warn him 16 years go fast so try to make each moment last. And say how proud he'll always be- like me. HBD M

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

In governing, what’s tossed away will rarely find retrieval and moving fast and breaking things is #incognito evil as often what gets broken first is what the poorest need to help prevent the very worst, but now that’s lost to greed. #vss365

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It is remarkable and it’s regrettable how the unspeakable fades to forgettable.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It’s difficult to #fathom the depravity required to refuse to let your kids stay up and read when they’re not tired. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I do not plan to shop at an imperial #emporium that only offers clothes it hopes the emperor will wear. I'd rather make a stop at a rambunctious auditorium to hear from folks who chose to make the empire more fair. #vss365

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Pursue #outlier status when absurdity's the norm- it's wise keep your distance from the center of the storm. #vss365

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The #contours of my consciousness are dicey to define, as I think I'm going crazy every time I go online. #vss365

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Our day-to-day reality is more surreal, it seems, than the #interim reality that holds our nighttime dreams. #vss365

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It shouldn’t be a #fringe belief that if our time on earth is brief, we ought to spend each day we’re given bettering this world we live in. #vss365

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Approval is a #sonic lure. The loudest praise does not endure. Instead, aspire to collect some quiet, but sustained, respect. #vss365

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished The Sirens' Call, @chrislhayes.bsky.social 's outstanding book about attention. I highly recommend it to any parent struggling with how to manage screens in their kids' lives- an issue I care deeply about. And an important book for the future of democracy. Thank you, Mr. Hayes.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

They careen through the course at a #thoroughbred pace but when guardrails are gone, no one wins in this race. #vss365

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

You can't rewrite reality by scrubbing every screen. You can't erase the facts folks see by threatening what's seen. The platforms may be #petulant, but facts are stubborn stuff. The wool you pull on people's eyes will run out soon enough. #vss365

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

#Unbridled ambition and unchecked control can unbalance order and unnerve the soul. #vss365

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A #reservoir of hope defeats a desert of despair, but you must be dam strategic or you’ll drain away what’s there. #vss365

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I scroll down a screen and the #onslaught begins; I open a book and my peace of mind wins. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We all should fear what will be wrought when algorithms #displace thought. #vss365

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The words you wield and myths you make can rock, or wreck, what’s in their wake. The #slipstreams spun by whispered lies unfurl and swirl and cloud our eyes. So weigh your words. Leave lies behind. And chart your path with grace in mind. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Each writer represents a branch of writing’s family tree. A literary lineage that covers you and me. It only takes a couple words before those words we took have made us writer siblings in the #bloodline of the book. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The more #complex that things become, we ought to try to not be dumb. #vss365

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Books are medicine for minds infected by machines. An algorithm antidote, safe haven from the screens. A crowded bookshelf is the cure for ignorance we've caught For written words will fuel ideas and give us food for thought. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com #safe_haven

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I bet that #Mercury, Venus and Mars love that we often mistake them for stars. Meanwhile, Pluto can't catch a break, can it? It humbly dreams to be seen as a planet. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

When dreams are compliant, there’s no need to #chase them But when they’re defiant, we yearn to embrace them. #vss365

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The freedom to speak freely does not mean, in all events, that it's wise to #liberate the things you say from common sense. #vss365 #liberation

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A #modest proposal I hereby propose: each day, turn off screens and feel grass on your toes. #vss365

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The algorithms that control the screens you see can scar your soul. We’d find more hope and fewer harmed if algorithms were #disarmed. #vss365

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

"A tempest in a teapot" is the standard headline form; would a #cyclone in their coffee cup awake them to this storm? #vss365

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The water's getting awful hot. Is this a #bathtub, or a pot? #vss365

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

When grownups aren’t in charge, we all get sugar high & go out in the dark & yell as cars go by & trash the neighbor yards & call them ugly names & steal #umbrella stands & bet on risky games & get the matches out & see what we can burn- when grownups aren’t in charge, I hope we live & learn #vss365

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The ghosts I know do not appear as misty forms that #conjure fear. Instead, my ghosts arrive at night to ask, in dreams, if I’m all right. #vss365

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments