#SundaySentence

"Protests are literally everywhere but in the news."

RT @MaryAustinBooks

All you have to do is go to

https://fiftyfifty.one

and you see events every day all over the country, everything from marches in big blue cities to people holding up a sign over an overpass. There are whole reddit forums, some of them city specific, for people organizing protests. Look at the event calendars of state capitols and city halls.

https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/114133140778509761

"I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more-something that is not me, for which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone." - from 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

#SundaySentence

RT @pthenq1

People can die of voting and they will in the States.

https://mastodon.la/@pthenq1/114009427285593344

"In its badness my chaotic handwriting seems to reveal something about me that I’d rather not look at."

#SundaySentence from Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind by Anne Carson (2025 @lrb) https://tinyurl.com/2rhn3txj

"And it is surely astounding to reflect that not once in the three billion years since life began has your personal line of descent been broken."

Bill Bryson
The Body
#SundaySentence #quote #BillBryson

Dandelions in bullet holes
We stand in our civilian clothes
On blankets laid out on a lawn
Clouds of rain will all move on

#SundaySentence is from Sarah Harmer

#TodaysPoem

https://sarahharmer.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-harmer-all-of-our-names?t=6

https://tidal.com/track/98513340?u

I relate.
#SundaySentence

#sundaySentence
He did look like a kangaroo with Lyme disease.

-- Troy Iwata

Brilliant. Daily Show.

Meet the Choreographer Teaching Elon Musk How to Move Like a Normal Person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riGvU5WRRzg

3/2/25 15:42

"Meaningless cards, tokens, and symbols become invested with value and significance in the world of the game."

--Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit #SundaySentence

"Why do days like these have to end, why can't happiness stop when it comes to us, and we could carry it through life as the turtle carries its house; like an unbreakable shield against the arrows of unhappiness?"

#SundaySentence from Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton (2024 Biblioasis) https://tinyurl.com/4en8hxp2

"In withholding or distorting knowledge or imparting falsehood, a liar deprives others of the information they need to participate in public and political life, to avoid dangers, to understand the world around them, to act on principle, to know themselves and others and the situation, to make good choices, and ultimately to be free" (Rebecca Solnit, in Orwell's Roses, p. 221).

@bookstodon #SundaySentence #truth #lies #democracy #politics #freedom #bookstodon

"The postman knows, of course, that earthworms are hermaphroditic, which is why the problem of women's suffrage would never need to be discussed by them."

#SundaySentence from Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton (2024 Biblioasis) https://tinyurl.com/mrxr9w8s & https://tinyurl.com/4tumfw3c

"The heart drew lines between love and fear, and in its constant travel between the two it knew all there was to know."

--Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind #SundaySentence

"Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour, piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers—the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps—and flowers that grow only in borders in England, proud flowers keeping themselves to themselves over there, such as the great blue irises and the lavender, were being jostled by small, shining common things like dandelions and daisies and the white bells of the wild onion, and only seemed the better and the more exuberant for it." -- from 'The Enchanted April' by Elizabeth Von Arnim

#SundaySentence #reading #books #BookQuote @bookstodon

"Because it's easy to be forever clicking on icons."

#SundaySentence from The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard, translated by Lazer Lederhendler (2024 Biblioasis) https://tinyurl.com/6f264fs5

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
-- Richard Feynman

I am afraid I cannot
have hysterics to
prove my sensibility.

-A Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
#SundaySentence #bookstodon

#sundaySentence

"You only have to look at Trump's little mouth, you only have to listen briefly to his (or Xi's, Putin's and co.'s) speech to see what you have in front of you: what sits on the throne is a tapeworm."

-- Constantin Seibt, Die Goldene Zeit Des Donald Trump)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawsuits-2671127559/

v @knittingknots2

https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113980702563475533

“It is because I am allied to the elements that the sound of the rain is thus soothing to me. The sound soaks into my spirit, as the water into the earth, reminding me of the season when snow and ice will be no more, and when the earth will be thawed and drink up the rain as fast as it fall.”

#Thoreau 15 February 1855