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Yesterday toward the end of my #birding, a great blue heron flew right toward me and landed in a tree almost above my head. 😳I had to work to get a decent angle through the big branches — kneeling and...
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O grey-eyed Athena, grant me the serenity to accept I will never see every bird!(This cycle of longing and attempted resignation brought to you by the gorgeous bird on the front page of eBird just now:...
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Sitting at red lights today imagining what names the ornithologists will come up with for#BirdNamesforBirds. For instance, “Steller’s” Jay! My serious suggestion: Sooty Blue Jay.My other...
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There are much worse instances of Murphy’s Law, but a very notable one is how often one seems to have high gusty winds on garbage night. 🫣
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Me, a sniffling child: Mom, Mom, the other kids are flooding my Tumblr dash with a fandom I don’t wanna read!Me, also the mom: Just filter them, kiddo, and they’ll go away.Me, sobbing: But Mom, they...
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New waterproof boot: I’m just a boot. I’m over being waterproof.Me: I’m a responsible adult, so I know I need to knock off #birding and go home to dry off my foot.A sharp-shinned hawk, landing nearby:...
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@loren I do not pretend to understand the origins of your pond-slapping joke, but it seemed to me today that the pied-billed grebes are the ones slapping the ponds hereabouts!
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I am an admirer of John Singer Sargent, and I found the boosted video below, about his monumental “Gassed,” really interesting. He was so long dismissed, in his life and after, for his commitment to...
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John Singer Sargent was gay, and very close with his sisters. One, Violet, married a Frenchman and had 6 kids, who would go on holidays with the aunts, Sargent, and friends. The non-painters, including...
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Rose Marie worked as a nurse in a hospital for blinded soldiers — many of them gas victims — from 1915 to 1918. She had lost her beloved husband of 1 year in 1914, and devoted herself to helping. John...
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This story is from my memory, but my memory is bad at dates, so I looked them up! Here is a big long article I found (and probably read years ago) about Rose Marie, which also talks about “Gassed”:...
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Christmas shoppingOh, the stress of buying presents for kids you don’t see often! Which one gets the X-Wing and which one gets the TIE Fighter?! >.<#StarWars
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I’m so trepidatious casting even as simple a Bread spell as Soft Pretzels. This is not my school of magic! Temperatures? Summoned invisible entities that must be fed and appeased?Sure, I make pizza...
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“I dreamed of a kind of wasp,” I told my spouse this morning, “and it was terrible, and when I woke up I wanted to tell you about it. But if I told you, you would know and might dream about that kind...
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If you are not yet crazy about Crested Caracaras (as seen in the boost below) I recommend the book A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey. My mom (to whom I...
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Sitting on hold with the DMV system thinking, “Don’t be crabby at the call center person. Not that you ever should! But the DMV call center workers are incarcerated and you extra-super-shouldn’t be...
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We watched John Carpenter’s “The Fog” for the first time tonight, and as Adrienne Barbeau is watching the fog roll in and frantically trying to warn the town over the radio, @yaypie’s watch binged and...
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Every time I encounter a piece of design that doesn’t work right with my body — cross-body seatbelts that saw into my neck on the lowest adjustment, for instance — I remember that I am TWO INCHES over...
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I have long held a very loosey-goosey, inclusive standard for what constitutes “a Christmas movie”. Today, however, i was reminded by someone’s Letterboxd list that such standards lead to the...
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