Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Maybe someday I'll be able to speak in front of a group of people without breaking into hives, but today is not that day. 🥲 120
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1863 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 040
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1861 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 030
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1861 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 030
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Happy Saint Francis Day! 💙 Here is my favorite related work of art -- the St. Francis and St. Clare Mural at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco: 052
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026youtu.be/-Bjniom0F2M?...youtu.beDonovan - The Lovely Day (1972)YouTube video by Windbird FM 020
Reposted by Amanda JoyCatherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"When Francis preached love to the birds They listened, fluttered, throttled up Into the blue like a flock of words Released for fun from his holy lips." Seamus #Heaney #IrishPoetry #feastday #StFrancis #writing #nature #naturewriting #Orto #Sunday 061
Reposted by Amanda JoyLoona @moonlightloona.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today's the Feast of St. Francis. He preached to animals, called the sun and moon his siblings, and believed all creation to be his family. He reminds us that the whole multiverse is made by God and worships him by its own existence. How blessed are we to be in his magnum opus? 021
Reposted by Amanda JoyLeia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today let us celebrate the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi who died 800 years ago yesterday. Francis is patron saint of the environment, peace, and animals. The best of all saints! When my veterinarian did not know Leia's age or birthday, she assigned her St Francis' feast day of October 4. 3805182
Reposted by Amanda JoyWobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Happy feast of St Francis to all my fellow Franciscans and all who celebrate. Happy 800th anniversary! 272
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 010
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Günaydın 🍂 Somebody please tell my stupid, sad brain it's illegal to be depressed on such a beautiful, cool fall day! 131
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 27/09/2026youtu.be/7WWF04469b0?...youtu.beMolly Drake - HappinessYouTube video by Folk ABC - Americana, Blues, Country 010
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 25/09/2026youtu.be/hQevKY4gy4s?...youtu.beYou Go To My HeadYouTube video by Billie Holiday - Topic 110
Reposted by Amanda JoyBrian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness. 212440965
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1861 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 041
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1863 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today's Facebook "memories" brought up my visit to Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst -- 15 years ago! 030
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 23/09/2026First Raven I've seen since I've started keeping a list! Just in time for a beautiful 94-degree-fall-equinox evening 🐦⬛🍂🌵 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 22/09/2026youtu.be/6v-S4SeDK1E?...youtu.beI Guess That's Why They Call It The BluesYouTube video by Elton John - Topic 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson "I tend my flowers for thee -- Bright Absentee!" 160
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Another hawk sighting at work today! This time a Red-tailed! (Rest in peace, mockingbird) 231
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Cooper's Hawk! First one I've seen at work. After I filmed this he flew away, but then swooped very close past me when I started walking in another direction. Closest I've ever been to a hawk! 140
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 16/09/2026About three years ago, I tried my hand at creating a "found" poem. I took the leviathan chapter from the Book of Job (Chapter 41), and highlighted words, in order, to make my own piece. It fell together very quickly and turned out to be...well...very different in tone than the original. 120
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1861 #EmilyDickinson #poem #poetry Wild nights - Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the winds - To a Heart in port - Done with the Compass - Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden - Ah - the Sea! Might I but moor - tonight - In thee! 051
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1861 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson Come slowly—Eden Lips unused to Thee— Bashful—sip thy Jessamines As the fainting Bee— Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums— Counts his nectars— Enters—and is lost in Balms. 010
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Emily Dickinson, 1862 #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson All the letters I can write Are not fair as this— Syllables of Velvet— Sentences of Plush, Depths of Ruby, undrained, Hid, Lip, for Thee— Play it were a Humming Bird— And just sipped—me— 041
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Added two new birds to my list this afternoon -- a couple of Chipping Sparrows 🪶🪶 and a Wilson's Warbler 🪶 120
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Rainer Maria Rilke, 1905 #poetry #poem #Rilke "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." 120
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"I don't want to be demure or respectable" Mary Oliver, Blue Horses, 2014 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver (Happy birthday, Mary Oliver!!! 🎉✨🪶) 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What if we swapped seeds with our mouths beneath the lovebird tree? 👀😘 130
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Met another friendly cactus wren this afternoon 🌵🪶👋 030
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's been pretty fun and manageable, making eBird checklists in urban hotspots, but today I tried keeping track of every bird I saw at a local riparian preserve, and let's just say this list does not come even a tiny bit close to representing all of the birds in that area. 😅 130
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives" #collage #papercollage #MariaPopova #Figuring 151
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 04/09/2026youtu.be/Y-1oZ7Uhzao?...youtu.beYou Speak My Language (2020 Remaster)YouTube video by Morphine - Topic 000
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 03/09/2026youtu.be/JP1hEPRYBQs?...youtu.beJoni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio (Official Audio)YouTube video by Joni Mitchell 020
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Good morning, cactus wren! Nice to see you again :) 020
Reposted by Amanda JoyMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Heartbroken to hear that Wendell Berry has returned his borrowed stardust. His immortal wisdom on creativity and love: www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/14/w... 0213
Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I happen to work at an "eBird hotspot", and now that the weather is getting nicer (i.e., below 3 digit temps 🙃), I'm looking forward to exploring the campus more and seeing what fall migration brings to the area. Here's what I saw today... 120
