iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

•You’re not a writer if you’re not published •You’re not a writer if you don’t write every day •You’re not a writer if you don’t outline No, you ARE a writer—even if the only thing you have written this month is a grocery list. You have a story to tell. Persist! #writing #writingsky

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What is a small thing you can do for yourself today, to make it a good day? For me, I am taking a moment to be creative.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 11/02/2025

How do you write when the world is burning? Passionately and compassionately. Onward.

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here’s an offering from today’s hike:

Foreground: seeding Canadian Goldenrod
Background: winter trees

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Really hope this happens!! I would definitely buy one!

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A stop to federal funding puts refugees in limbo. Here, in WI, we have people working hard to make a difference. Please consider supporting the work of Hanna Refugee Relief Group 🙏🏼 hananrrg.org/donate-now/

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

2nd book of 2025. I thought I’d learn something about history. I am. But it’s also hitting close to current events. 👀 #booksky #nonfiction #americanhistory

Audiobook in the Libby app. Book title “Unworthy Republic; The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory.” By Claudio Saunt.

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TheNextRightThing @dancingtreemama.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I feel it ALL.

1. I AM WASHiNG MY FACe BeFoRe BeD WHiLe A COUNTRY iS oN FiRe.
IT FeeLS DuMB To WASH My FAce, AND DUMB NoT To.
IT HAS NeVeR BeeN THiS WAY, aND
IT HAS ALWAYS BeEN THiS WAY
SoMeoNe HAS AlwayS CliNKeD A CockTAiL GlaSS iN ONe HeMiSPHeRe
AS SoMeoNe LoSeS A HoMe iN ANoTHeR WHiLe SoMeoNe FALLS iN Love iN THe SAMe APARTMeNT BuilDiNG WHeRe SoMeoNe GRieveS. THe FACT THAT SUFFeRiNG, MUNDANiTY, aND BeAUTY CoiNCiDe iS UNBeARABLe AND ReMARKABle.

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Anyone reading through the comments and thinking “aw, man! I should have thought of that one!” [not]Unrelated: my TBR pile is accumulating some good titles!

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Omg. Amazing list! All those you listed (except Count bc I haven’t read it yet) Absolutely love Bleak House and Persuasion.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Look, if we have to go though all this can we at least get someone to push delete on our student loans

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A poem by Mary Oliver has been rattling around in my heart and head for the past week. “Here is a story to break your heart. Are you willing? . . . I mean that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.” Artists, the world needs you now more than ever.

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 04/02/2025

Casual reading.

Paperbacks of “The Constitution of the United States” and “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This. Exactly. The tyranny of the urgent keeps my brain from being about to concentrate on the important.

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Turns out people hiring remote workers are looking for people more techie and less . . .artsy. Who’d have thought?

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Kathryn Bettendorf @katbette.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There’s something about these textures…

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