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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

I just got the flowers @humanbn sent me yesterday for giving my talk. Supported from afar. What a fun time #monktoberfest is!

A vase of pink roses gerbera daisies and assorted delights.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

This strawberry bush is in our yard. I’m so glad @humanbn planted it.

Picture of an alien looking pink and orange plant. Pink spiky parts and orange berries around a tiny core.

Picture of a strawberry plant a missouri native. Pink spiky parts and orange berries.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026

From @joanhalifax.bsky.social "A human life can be whole inside an unrepaired world. Not comfortable. Not untroubled. Not spared. Whole. Present to what is actually happening and still capable of love and of action." Needed this reminder today.

A picture of a sunset pr a sunrise with clouds and a dark horizon.

And this for you today from the new book: I cannot promise that the world will be repaired. I have watched too much go unrepaired to say that honestly, and at eighty-four I will not see how most of it turns out. What I can promise, because I have watched it in others and been carried by it myself, is this: a human life can be whole inside an unrepaired world. Not comfortable. Not untroubled. Not spared. Whole. Present to what is actually happening and still capable of love and of action.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 20/07/2026

I have not been able to get this quote from @joanhalifax.bsky.social out of my head. It provides the perfect frame for explaining this moment. One derangement out of the many shaping our existence.

From Unfinished Vow, the book I am working on, as I consider the violent burning of the boundary water forests: "Consider what a lump of coal actually is. It is time: sunlight that fell on fern forests three hundred million years ago, taken in by living things, laid down, buried, compressed through spans that make the whole of human history a rounding error. Oil is the same, the concentrated time of ancient seas. Our civilization's founding act has been to burn hundreds of millions of years of stored being-time in the space of about two centuries, an eyeblink, and to exhale it into a sky whose consequences will be inherited by beings who have no vote in the matter because they have not yet been born. I know of no more precise description of the climate crisis than this: it is a derangement of time. We are spending the deep past to foreclose the future, and calling the transaction growth."

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

Jenny Holzer drives a hard bargain.

A picture of the Jenny Holzer marquee that says “it is in your self interest to find a way to be very tender.”

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026

Tiny gifts to remind me of wonder.

A tiny green mantis dancing on my deck railing

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 02/05/2026

Lush gifts of alley and yard. Grateful for beauty.

Brilliant redorange and yellow coral honeysuckle

I don’t know what this purple
Beauty is but I love it.

This peony is such an almost neon deep pink it looks fake

This is some kind of Iris maybe. Bright purple beautiful with light green leaves around it

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 29/04/2026

My new t-shirt. store.dair-institute.org/product/ridi...

My new T-shirt that says ridicule as praxis honestly. Green with yellow type

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 24/04/2026

This is a memory I will never forget. This is the level we went - we rebuilt this damn house. Brick by brick. Stone by stone. This picture captures quite a day.

Exterior wall of brick house taken down. You can see the outside from the inside. Lol sob.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 19/04/2026

Guys like Alex Karp have always been mockable truly worthy of ridicule. Should have been run out of town on a rail long ago. Just untapped my new T-shirt!

Green T-shirt w/yellow letters saying ridicule as praxis, honestly.

From the folks at mystery ai hype theatre 3000

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 17/04/2026

Kelli Russell Agodon poem. IT ME. "Maybe we’ll get you a little tipsy so you can calm the fuck down. Wait, sorry—that’s my anxiety, Future, you don’t even exist yet, like one of those midnight panics that wakes me when I’m certain the world has ended (has it ended?)"

Poem to the Future by Kelli Russell Agodon
April 17, 2026 ~ ONE ART

Poem to the Future

Future, if you stop by, I promise to open the door.
I know sometimes you arrive in combat boots,
laces braided with bombs and drones, even the way
you cuff your jeans feels like a subtle threat. Future,
if you come inside, I’ll offer you jasmine tea, but know
I have champagne chilling in the fridge as I keep hoping
we’ll get to celebrate you. And my neighbor will come by
with tortilla soup. She makes a hell of a martini. Maybe
we’ll get you a little tipsy so you can calm the fuck down.
Wait, sorry—that’s my anxiety, Future, you don’t even exist
yet, like one of those midnight panics that wakes me when
I’m certain the world has ended (has it ended?) Future,
I promise to treat you well. I’ll show you the faith I had
last fall when I planted daffodils, those van Gogh tulips
I ordered in a frenzy of hope. Future, I believe in spring.
I believe in you too. Come in—but take your shoes off,
leave the dirty parts in the mudroom. I keep telling
everyone you’re coming. Don’t make me a liar.
Sit with me. Show me how we survived this.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 16/04/2026

We had no reason to go so hard on this south city renovation other than we love beauty and want to be the landlords we always craved. We call it a community building exercise.

We had no idea what was under the aluminum siding of this little shotgun house - but what a surprise. This is what it looked like when we started. We didn’t even know it was brick. Just a vacant structure totally covered by aluminum siding.

It’s a beautiful home now. Such detail on the arches.

Look at that stained glass arch! That was hidden under the siding.

a lovely porch upon which to sit.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 16/04/2026

This lil’ nugget gave us the biggest scare this week - Sunday her pupil was blown so on Monday we took her in, me expecting the worst. But she’s fine now Feral kitty’s that come inside after being street cats often have issues Glad Roxie is okay - we got attached.

A pic of a creme and white tabby kitty with a lil’ grumpy face.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 10/03/2026

What if we joined our sorrows, I'm saying. I'm saying: What if that is joy? Whew I needed to read this today and maybe you do too. I wept. Thanks, Ross Gay. From here - onbeing.org/blog/joy-is-...

And what if the wilderness—perhaps the densest wilder in there—thickets, bogs, swamps, uncrossable ravines and rivers (have I made the metaphor clear?)—is our sorrow? Or, to use Smith’s term, the “intolerable.” It astonishes me sometimes—no, often—how every person I get to know—everyone, regardless of everything, by which I mean everything—lives with some profound personal sorrow. Brother addicted. Mother murdered. Dad died in surgery. Rejected by their family. Cancer came back. Evicted. Fetus not okay. Everyone, regardless, always, of everything. Not to mention the existential sorrow we all might be afflicted with, which is that we, and what we love, will soon be annihilated. Which sounds more dramatic than it might. Let me just say dead. Is this, sorrow, of which our impending being no more might be the foundation, the great wilderness?

Is sorrow the true wild?

And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that?

For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation.

What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying.

I’m saying: What if that is joy?

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 02/03/2026

Always post this whenever it appears.

An image describing an inspiring feminist tale of a female tiger shark swallowing the male whole because he would not stop bothering her.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 14/02/2026

Carondelet has opinions. Cant say I’m mad about it.

A picture of a stop sign near a city park where a person has painted the words pedo and Trump

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 14/01/2026

We discovered this window under siding of a vacant house we are renovating. A labor of love to restore this place.

Picture of stained glass window with blue orange and yellow er restored looking out

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/01/2026

@humanbn keeps my look fresh for business meetings in 2026.

A black and white T-shirt with a woman with a spray can and the words lavender menace. Still here still queer.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/01/2026

Some days you pull out your hair. Some days you pour stairs.

Men working with concrete to make stairs into the corner house basement.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 06/01/2026

I think the color scheme in the house we are renovating is brilliant. And that light fixture. So cool.

You can see the pewter the cork the amazing blue and in the distance the stained glass

Cork wall with brick highlights and a little architectural window detail

This is a little multicolored ceiling fan that is gonna look so good!

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 06/01/2026

And now for a buddy that is a bird.

Male house finch who is red and cute and I love him

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 22/12/2025

If you had office kitties like this would you get any work done?

The strays we brought inside to be my office kitties. Butterscotch and white babies relaxing on your couch.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 22/12/2025

some holiday hero decorated the tree in front of the corner house we are renovating. love living in a community.

Picture of a recently planted tree bereft of leaves but festooned with decorative balls and a candy cane.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 17/10/2025

I have a T-shirt too! Old school internet ftw.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 02/10/2025

So wild so amazingly awful (not minimizing suffering - past current and future) but they are SO BAD AT EVERYTHING.

Demon Slayer cartoon with the word delicious on the bottom

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 21/09/2025

All the baby kittens have been trapped.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 28/08/2025

A classic shirt from a classic time.

Green shirt with white drawing of person saying shut up shut up shut up

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 19/07/2025

Our latest folly. But it is coming along!

Small shotgun house in city of St. Louis. Covered in white aluminum siding. We had no idea what was under until we removed it.

After we removed the siding we found some beautiful bricks and so we did some extra work on the front porch

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 19/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who helped yesterday. We raised some funds and purchased and delivered needed supplies. And @humanbn.bsky.social helped save a doggo.

Receipts for the purchases yesterday for tornado relief supplies.

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 28/11/2024

From Joan on a different platform but I’m sharing here. Joanna Macy: Long time climate activists like her have so much to teach me about intention, working with grief, and living a commitment to helping situations improve for all long-term. Grateful for this wisdom.

A picture of Joanna Macy. An older woman with short grey hair and a red top. The quote from her:

Joanna Macy: “We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe—to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it—is a wonder beyond words. It is an extraordinary privilege to be accorded a human life, with self-reflexive consciousness that brings awareness of our own actions and the ability to make choices. It lets us choose to take part in the healing of our world.”

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 21/11/2024

This is one of my favorite t-shirts from a lifetime ago - this was 2014. My hair is short and brown - now it is long and grey. The slogan applies now more than ever: #MindYourMind

A picture of me in one of my favorite t-shirts with my niece and then sister-in-law. A lifetime ago - in 2014. My hair is short and brown! LoL.

The shirt is dark grey with the slogan "Mind Your Mind"

The shirt applies even more now than it did back then. #MindYourMind

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 19/10/2024

We have further adorned our backyard water feature. I think the birds and wildlife will love it. Sound up!

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