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MaeveWriter retweeted
'O how they disturb the brown silence
Wherein a tilled field is enrapt
Like a woman by heavy foreboding entranced,
And sometimes one can hear them bickering
Over some carrion scented out somewhere ...'
Georg Trakl, 'The Ravens'
'Brown silence' has always stuck with me. It evokes, in rich detail, the vast silence that spreads over the fields, especially during the twilit phases of the day.
MaeveWriter retweeted
Good morning you beautiful people. Starting the day with my photo of a sunrise some time ago over Tower Bridge and The Thames. I had got up really early, wandered down past The Tower Of London to be met by one of the most incredible sunrises I’d ever seen. I stood there taking photos for several minutes as it just got more and more spectacular. This photo is completely unedited. It really looked like this. Hope you all have a wonderful day and remember: keep calm and stay drunk.
Absolutely nothing is sacred anymore.
Minneapolis police arrest 7 people after burglary at Basilica of Saint Mary kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/…
nothing fishy about this....
Attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk said they need years to prepare for trial, suggesting a 2029 trial date. kare11.com/article/news/nati…
MaeveWriter retweeted
"When I walk through many cities today, what I often feel is a quiet crisis of beauty. Modern society has learned to build efficiently and rationally. We master codes... We know how to optimize volumes and squeeze maximum floor area out of every plot. But what we have increasingly forgotten is how to create places where people feel inwardly at home"
cc'd @thewaronbeauty
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I've just been scammed on X. Can't believe I fell for it. My dumbness cost me $250. Warning to others, don't ever order any 'health' products from @drtarahenderson
#DMSO
MaeveWriter retweeted
The Somme killed J.R.R. Tolkien’s best friends. He answered with Middle-earth.
Doomscroll Buster: Great Books No. 5 - Tolkien
July 1, 1916. His friend Rob Gilson died on day one, and by 1918 all but one of Tolkien’s close friends were dead.
He came home with trench fever... and started writing about elves and a gardener named Sam.
Sam was the English private he served beside in the trenches. Tolkien called those men “so far superior to myself.”
He picked wonder over the wreckage. We can too.
Reject the online negativity glowing in your hand and embrace beauty... your mood and your creativity will soar.
What book got you through your own rough stretch?
My most recent Substack essay: How to Live Through a 'Doomed' Decade:
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MaeveWriter retweeted
“We’d stay up 24 hours drinking cup after cup of black coffee, playing record after record of Wardell Gray, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Willie Jackson, Lennie Tristano and all the rest, talking madly about that holy new feeling out there in the streets.”
Jack Kerouac
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Joy of joys!
Tune in to America This Week on Election Night!
Join @walterkirn and me for an America This Week Reunion Special, as we watch returns and ponder the coming end of the world
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I don't understand, why is the French govt not protecting France?
🔴 Office du tourisme brûlé à Lyon
"C'est un bâtiment patrimonial en plein cœur de la ville (...) de perdre de cette façon-là cet office, pour nous, véritablement, c'est une tragédie" déclare le maire Les Écologistes de Lyon @Gregorydoucet sur LCI