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Retired teacher. Nature nerd. Wildlife rehab volunteer. Atheist. Wikipedia editor for over 20 years. Rainy-day enthusiast, living my best life on Washington's Pacific Coast. she/her
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"Instead of saying ‘I don’t think children should read this book,’ just add a single word: ‘I don’t think MY children should read this book." Dav Pilkey “What it's like to top banned book lists around the world” The Guardian #SundaySentence 💙📚

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My favorite from yesterday's #SundaySentence

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If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath. from "Lucky" by Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social

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Ellen Crimi-Trent provided the tutorial for this. I have learned to paint a dragonfly. Be very afraid. #watercolor

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I need Jelly Belly to make the MANY red flavors better differentiated. I'm having trouble picking out the nasty cinnamons without unknowingly sacrificing the other red flavors that are good.

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Sitting with a cup of tea, watching Doctor Who ("The Pandorica Opens", which, as you will see, is oddly appropriate), and trying to decide how to paint a picture of a badly-painted door so it doesn't look like a badly-painted painting of a badly-painted door. #watercolor

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Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach OR #watercolor

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If you like this account please do give it a share! We are really struggling to get engagement on this platform. London’s geology is more varied than you think and we are here to spread the word, look after and promote London’s geosites #londongeology

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My favorite #SundaySentence from yesterday's offerings.

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I'm trying to keep things as normal as they can be in a world where monsters live. -- Leigh Bardugo in NINTH HOUSE #sundaysentence

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I believe I have found my newest all-purpose insult.

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Cheating a little. I have used this #SundaySentence from Naomi Nomik before, at the Other Place, but I just re-read the book and it struck me again, ringing like a solemn bell. "Uprooted" by #@naominovik.bsky.social 💙📚

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I leveled up with an assist from a Mallory Jane video about using sponges to paint tree foliage. #watercolor

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My favorite from today's #SundaySentence festival

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“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.” Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek #SundaySentence 📚💙

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Soft mist leaves glittering drops everywhere

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Red alder catkins are carpeting the ground.

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This #SundaySentence is my favorite of today's delightful choices.

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#SundaySentence from Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod by Robert Finch "Sometimes I think our business is to put ourselves in such favorable positions, open to the sky, where, doing some useful and unimportant work, the poetry of life can catch us unawares." #CapeCod

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Beautiful imagery

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Working on trees. #Watercolor

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“It’s astounding that she didn’t understand [that] taking two toes that had been vomited up by one or two dogs from a deceased person and sell[ing] them on the internet was the wrong thing to do." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #SundaySentence

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for whoever else is trying their best today

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You know what I don't love? Reading a novel with a plot point involving bubonic plague, then looking down to found a flea on my leg.

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My favorite #SundaySentence from last week. The rhythm in this sentence is sublime. It aches to be read aloud.

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"To read our inarticulable feelings articulated is to receive an act of love." #SundaySentence from Poetry As The Gift Of Attention by Kate Millar (2023 Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2023/08/poet...

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There's a special delicious misery when you are pretty sure you've found the next #SundaySentence but it's only Monday.

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"I’d watch the bats and the birds dip into the river to drink like they were stitching the water to the sky in lacy, swooping, baroque arcs." Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You” #SundaySentence #Booksky💙📚

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