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Sua Sponte Baker @suasponte.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In our part of the world, today is the summer solstice.The longest day with the most number of daylight hours allotted to us. Nature invites us to appreciate it. Know who else invites us to appreciate and ❤️ nature? KoolK8. @katecastle.bsky.social get some poetry for ya. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRDMM279

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The Nature of Love: A Poetry Collection Inspired by Nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. — Rumi #forestfeels #photography #nature #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear. — Prasad Mahes #forestfeels #naturephotography #photography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. — J. B. Priestley #forestfeels #naturephotography #nature #quoteoftheday

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Virginia Black Writes @virginiablack.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Looking for a new scifi/romance audiobook? Get NO SHELTER BUT THE STARS, On sale NOW through 4/13/25! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... #queersff #sapphicscifi #sapphicbooks #sapphicaudiobooks

Cover of sapphic novel, NO SHELTER BUT THE STARS. A viewpoint from a desolate planet, with a moon against a backdrop of nebulae and stars.

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. — Richard Bach #forestfeels #photography #naturephootgraphy #quotes

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people's lives regardless of the weather. — R A Ktivist #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #photography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. — May Sarton #forestfeels #photography #nature #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #photography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius #forestfeels #naturephotography #photography #quotes #nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing what's around the river bend. — Pocahontas, 1995 #forestfeels #naturephotography #nature #quoteoftheday #quotes

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. — Omar Suleiman #forestfeels #naturephotography #quotes #photography #nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Two days ago this riverside weeping willow was still only buds. Spring has sprung!

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 07/03/2025

Something maybe all can agree on. Regardless of where a book was bought, dropping a rating on it at Amazon helps every single author. It's especially powerful for small presses, their authors, and indie authors. reader activism sapphic books lesfic

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Within my reach I could have touched I might have chanced that way Soft sauntered thro' the village— Sauntered as soft away So unsuspected Violets Within the meadows go— Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago — Emily Dickinson #forestfeels #poetry #nature #naturephotography #poems

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things. — Daniel Craig #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #nature

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A. L. Brooks @albrookswriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

One week to go!!! Gah, I’m so excited for you all to meet Rachel & Lisa 😊 books2read.com/Counterpoint-

Book cover of Counterpoint by A. L. Brooks shows two young women in the ‘yin/yang’ position, their lips almost meeting.

Alongside is an excerpt from the book:

The lobby was lit by the desk lamp, casting a warm glow across Rachel’s features. She looked beautiful, and for a moment Lisa couldn’t breathe.

Rachel looked up as Lisa approached and smiled. “That all sounded wonderful.” She gestured towards the hall.

“Would you like to go out sometime?”

Rachel froze.

Lisa froze.

Well, shit, she hadn’t exactly intended to blurt it out like that right now. But Rachel had looked so…alluring, Lisa’s thoughts had scrambled—and out it came.

Book cover of Counterpoint by A. L. Brooks surrounded by tropes/story hints: Family drama; slow burn; some steamy stuff; worst villain I ever wrote; grumpy old man; self-discovery; lesbian leads; found family; angsty; lesbian longing

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

✨The Nature of Love is out in Paperback! ✨ (link in bio) These poems are a love letter to nature, to longing, and to the way love, joy, and pain roots itself in us. If you’ve ever felt deeply, loved wildly, or stood in the quiet of a forest and just *breathed*…this is for you. #poetry #sapphicbooks

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

And if the world should crumble, if the sea should rise and the sky forget its blue, still, I would love her, in the silence that follows, in the eternity that remains. — from my #poetry collection ‘The Nature of Love’ - out in paperback TODAY! #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #photography

A dreamlike photograph showing a lone swan in the centre of a tranquil lake, with no discerning difference between water, land, nor sky.

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #photography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The fullest soul is a shimmery reflector of Love. — Angie Weiland-Crosby #forestfeels #naturephotography #photography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine. — A. A. Milne #forestfeels #nature #photography #greyday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. — William Shatner #forestfeels #naturephotography #photography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What is it about the English countryside—why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so? — Dodie Smith #forestfeels #nature #quotes #naturephotography #kent

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer #forestfeels #photography #quotes #nature #reculvertowers

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Gosh, thank you so much. This made my heart burst!

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

In short, all good things are wild and free. — Henry David Thoreau #forestfeels #naturephotography #quotes #nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Love me in a wild open with a gentle hold. — Butterflies Rising #forestfeels #poetry #naturephotography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

To be content doesn't mean you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come. — Tony Gaskins #forestfeels #quoteoftheday #naturephotography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster. — Marianne Williamson #forestfeels #naturephotography #quotes

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze—the world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean. — Alison McGhee #forestfeels #photography #nature #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we lie in fields of gold. — Sting #forestfeels #nature #photography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to colour my sky. — A.R. Asher #forestfeels #quoteoftheday #nature #photography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung (One of my all-time favourite quotes) #forestfeels #chemistry #nature #love #quoteoftheday #photography

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For [some] may come and [some] may go, But I go on for ever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson #forestfeels #poetry #nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. — Jonatan Mårtensson #forestfeels #quoteoftheday #naturephotography #nature

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us. — Alan Cohen #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #reflections

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K. (Kelly) Aten @katenauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'll be a last-minute replacement on this panel, you should absolutely join me. I mean seriously... look at that hot list of talent I get to rub elbows with. Divine! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-challe...

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The Challenges of Writing Sapphic Fiction Across Genres

A round table discussion of the challenges of writing sapphic fiction across multiple genres.

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. — Benjamin Franklin #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday #quote

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. — John A. Shedd #forestfeels #naturephotography #quoteoftheday

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. — Theodore Parker #forestfeels #quoteoftheday #naturephotography #dog

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Kate Castle @katecastle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Baby Let's up and leave the weeping to the willow tree And pour our tears in the sea — Owl City #forestfeels #forestthreads #photography #nature #quoteoftheday

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