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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#PoetryBreak I think today is a good day for one of my favourite poems. I tend to get caught up in a sense of failure, constant failure, but... Nothing is constant. Not even failure. Even failure has its ebbs and flows, its highs and lows. So--try to remember we all fly a little, too, eh?

Failing and Flying

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Copyright © 2005 Jack Gilbert. From Refusing Heaven, 2005, Alfred A. Knopf.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stress nausea! So we're on to an #ArtBreak. John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93) was self-taught, and used camera obscura projections to help with staging and perspective. This caused many to feel that he wasn't a "real" artist, but just look at the lighting he achieved. The ache to create finds a way.

"Landscape with a winding river," by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1868)

"Whitby from Scotch Head" by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1879)

"Evening Glow", John Atkinson Grimshaw (1884)

"The Lovers" by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1873?)

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anyhoodle - #ArtBreak! Photography today. This is Félix Thiollier, who came from a family of means and was able to spend his years in restful study of the world around him. If more of us were able to create without commercial pressure, where would our eyes turn? What would we notice, and set down?

Félix Thiollier, "The Horse Trainer" (1899)

Félix Thiollier, "Figure contemplant les monts du Menzenc (Emma Thiollier, fille du photographe)
Figure contemplating the mountains of Menzenc (Emma Thiollier, daughter of the photographer)"
(1895-1905)

Félix Thiollier, "Decor for a fete or fair, Saint-Etienne (Décor de fête ou de foire, Saint-Etienne)" (1890-1910)

Félix Thiollier, "Mining Landscape, The Chatelus Pit at Saint-Etienne" (1907-1912)

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bipolar II is tricky. Even when you're living with it well, you can never trust yourself fully. Are you inspired or manic? Seeing the world clearly or in a downcycle? My lows have a massive tell: I can't stand myself, can't bear my voice, my sight, my worldly presence. BPII distorts everything. /x

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's #ArtBreak comes from Frances Broomfield, UK painter of the "idiosyncratic": more recently, bright portraiture where the subject is surrounded by the dreamscapes they inspired, but also, historically, a wealth of simpler paintings that also feel larger than (and just as surreal as) real life.

"The Dodo" by Frances Broomfield (1995
3).

"Humphrey, the Downing Street Cat" by Frances Broomfield (1995).

"Snowdrop Day, Hatfield House" by Frances Broomfield (1999).

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the plus side, the kid is now enrolled in full-time school. We got her supply list filled today and she starts October 15, to finish in July, in Venezuela. FINALLY. How ridiculously long it's taken to get her a proper education. (She's excited and determined, though. She'll catch up. 🤞🏻)

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wanted an #ArtBreak that reflected my mood, so Walter Molino, famous mid-20th-century illustrator and caricaturist of disaster, seemed a good choice. I didn't want to share anything that might disturb your scroll, though, so here are some of his "lighter" scenes of lurid catastrophe. What a tone!

Walter Molino, 1957 - "Exploding Elephant"

Walter Molino, father and sons attacked by swans on a boating trip.

Walter Molino, boy saved in the nick of time from a car.

Walter Molino, 1959 - "Dangerous Aventure"

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🧵 So I'm going to thread a bit. I don't usually do so on Bluesky, but it's not easy moving between worlds, & this past week was rough on the noggin. I thought about things I haven't thought about for a while--just a stress response, triggering mental habits familiar to anyone with BPII, but rough.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, I *told* myself I wasn't going to buy anything, but then I found a beautiful indie collective from Bogotá that was all about connecting and uplifting Latin American writers with a humanist bent in hard times for the world, and of course I had to support their work. #IRegretNothing #Books

Five books here, one thrown in free after a beautiful conversation about politics and human dignity. I am looking forward to them all. They even had a scifi anthology!

Wherever they go, this indie collective from Bogotá seeks to remind people that the spirit of the people cannot be contained by oppressive states. Good for them.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But easily one of the sweetest places is the secondhand section. You find more conversation, more deep quiet love, more historians of lit. I even had a great chat about Svetlana Alexievich with some teens here. *They* were excited to read her! 😮 #TheKidsAreAllRight #Colombia #FiestaDelLibro #Books

Quirky displays like this back of a van full of books are the norm in secondhand sections.

Here is where great old reads find new life with new loves/readers.

It is a BIG event, as this map of the terrain illustrates.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura de Medellín is always held in the Botanical Gardens, open to the public for those weeks. It's a beautiful thing to see nature & literature/art blended together so well. Definitely needed this return to pure creative joy. #FiestaDelLibro #Colombia #Books #Literature

Scenes from the blended Botanical Gardens and Book Festival.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧐 Who let the majors in? It's funny. SF rarely shows up here. When it does, it's classics. There is also a wonderful display from the centre for memory, museums, libraries... Of course, my happy place was always among books about the heaviest themes. #Colombia #Books #Literature #FiestaDelLibro

Penguin Random House and a couple other big presses showed up, but there is a wealth of small and indie press around them.

The museums and libraries also play a key role in making this a living festival, full of events.

Science fiction usually shows up in the international majors' tents, like this one. Even then, it's almost always primarily classics like Bradbury and Le Guin.

I spent so much of my young life devouring literature about the hardest parts of the human condition. Mostly Russian. Ah, good times.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are a wealth of specialty and university presses here, and they all do such a phenomenal job of curating "book as art" and building excitement around the ideas each volume may contain. #FiestaDelLibro #Colombia #Books #Literature #Art

Celebrating the best and brightest in literature here in Medellín.

Industry halls go BIG for this celebration of literature. University presses always have stunning displays.

This year there's a strong South Korean lit theme, in honour of youth interest in Korean pop culture.

And a whole pavillion for comics presses and related merch markets!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm in a very wobbly state, so today I'm spending a few hours at the massive Medellín book festival, which always rekindles in me the raw wonder of narrative, and how thrilling it is to create *anything* in this painful world of ours. Photos may arise as I wander. #Colombia #Books #Literature #Art

Bookstores here really don't do genre divides, except by medium and a few rare mystery or angelology / witchcraft subsections. A story is a story is a story.

A wide wealth of indie presses attest to a thriving canon and discourse in South America and castellano.

The fanzine and art magazine are alive and well in South America!

Literary creativity is a joy at any size.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's been a really rough week. I think I'm at a breaking point I can't afford, so I'm taking tomorrow off, but after working through a chunk of the night and still finding myself behind on key tasks for a ton of teams... I just needed to vent to the park horses first. Now home and back to it.

Like giant raccoons, these two are always garbage diving for fermented fruit peels until called on by their guardian to head home.

Yeah, yeah, the little fella gets other nutrition, too.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#PoetryBreak before the next round of coding and data entry. I'm out of words. Just tired. 🫂 Fill in the blanks here with something pithy, and be good to your weary noggins this weekend. (Andrea Gibson: August 13, 1975 - July 14, 2025)

every time i ever said i want to die
By Andrea Gibson

A difficult life is not less
worth living than a gentle one.
Joy is simply easier to carry
than sorrow. And your heart
could lift a city from how long
you've spent holding what's been
nearly impossible to hold.

This world needs those
who know how to do that.
Those who could find a tunnel
that has no light at the end of it,
and hold it up like a telescope
to know the darkness
also contains truths that could
bring the light to its knees.

Grief astronomer, adjust the lens,
look close, tell us what you see

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some days you just have to let the feeling of crushing failure wash over you. It will not stay forever, but sometimes you just need to be sad for a bit, & feel like you've failed everyone for a bit... so long as you keep moving forward, until you feel like you are large & contain multitudes again.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's been a beat since my last #PoetryBreak, so let's return to one of the greats this morning. Thank you, Mary Oliver, for always reminding us that a life of wonder can and does exist even in a world that brings us so much stress and sorrow. May we find the hidden nests we need today.

With Thanks to the Field Sparrow, Whose Voice Is So Delicate and Humble

I do not live happily or comfortably
with the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all about computers,
the news is all about bombs and blood.
This morning, in the fresh field,
I came upon a hidden nest.
It held four warm, speckled eggs.
I touched them.
Then went away softly,
having felt something more wonderful
than all the electricity of New York City.

-Mary Oliver

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kiddo's having a rough time in the humble pueblo the Venezuelan courts thought would be a better option than emancipating her so she could return to my care. Live footage of me trying to get work done while worrying and planning next steps for her move to the big city in time for school in October.

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Sylvester's Worried Wait

ALT: Sylvester's Worried Wait

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Before my main job starts in an hour, I'm wrapping up a translation for a local company here, and it's a beautiful interview with a Colombian nonprofit that works with female sex workers and victims of sex trafficking. 1/3 #WritingCommunity

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I both did a lot and didn't do enough this weekend, so while I work on forgiving myself for not being a robot, here's an #ArtBreak for perspective. Nataliya Bagatskaya (Ukraine) leverages the mundane to heighten the surrealism of simply existing in today's cruel world. We are all doing what we can.

"A Summer Night" by Nataliya Bagatskaya (2025)

"The Five" by Nataliya Bagatskaya (2023)

"The Cat Who Chose My Home" by Nataliya Bagatskaya (2022)

"Everything Is Fine. Almost." by Nataliya Bagatskaya (2026).

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Man, I love this kid. I'm working through my Labour Day, but I just got a message: She's reunited with an old friend of her deceased father, an elderly man living in squalor, and just asked for help and permission to spend part of the week improving the dignity of his home. A good kid. #SuperProud

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy 7 of 9 Day to everyone working on Labour Day, but with a sense of humour about it all. We'll return to our regeneration alcoves soon. 👍🏻

It is 7 of 9 Day. Fun will now commence. So says Seven from Voyager!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That was a very good story. I stood in the stillness of the park, in an area of rubble, while listening to the sharply written end of Min Jin Lee's rendition of Wendi Kaufman's "Helen on Eight-Sixth Street", & now I really wish this was a writing day. #Soon! But I have tech tasks to tackle instead.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh, I am loving this month's New Yorker Fiction Podcast, where Min Jin Lee introduces us to a clever, funny writer who lived a praxis of community that strove to invite others in. May we always extend the platform from wherever we are, in this privileged world of creative expression we all occupy.

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Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the…

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The pristine quiet of the predawn dark. :) Just me and the birbs.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was feeling kind of low today, but after getting through some of my work (more tonight), I went for a walk & talked with an elderly woman out begging for herself and her son, out of work after an accident. There's the usual thanks after I buy staples, but they have no idea how much it helps *me*.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm juggling a lot today, ahead of a launch I'm very proud of (even if it *is* a day late). But when I have a moment, I will process this grief properly. We had all the knowledge we needed to make better choices. We just didn't have enough in us to overcome our cruelty and pettiness as a species.

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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you, Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934-August 31, 2026), for the work of your life. One day I will learn a thing or two from your philosophy. #PoetryBreak

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well I'll be darned. Halloween arrived before Xmas this year - at least in DollarCity, which doesn't bother changing most inventory for local demographics. That's why, for Día del Amor y la Amistad in Sept, DollarCity sends Valentine's stock. 🙃 International trade is a strange beastie. #Colombia

The local malls will have the first Navidad displays up in a couple of days, once August's flower festival is over. In a culture without Thanksgiving or Remembrance Day, there's really not much else to disrupt the road to Xmas!

Yes, the Valentine's Day junk is in English at DollarCity, which doesn't really curate its sections to local needs. I also don't trust the chocolate to be fresh; a lot of this inventory might have been sitting around from North American Valentine's Day.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today I'm doing a TON of data entry, which is making me sentimental about my genre's history. So for today's #SFFSunday #ArtBreak, I bring you Bruce Pennington, whose work has uplifted a wealth of authors over his illustrious career. It takes a village to bring our dreams to life. Thank you, Bruce!

Bruce Pennington's cover art for MYSTERIOUS RAILWAY STORIES, edited by William Pattrick

Bruce Pennington's cover art for THE WORLDS OF ROBERT HEINLEIN

Bruce Pennington's cover art for OUT OF THEIR MINDS by Clifford D Simak

Bruce Pennington's cover art for SATAN'S WORLD by Poul Anderson

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The kid and I are currently working out her budget for food and other essentials in Sept. She's stuck in a small pueblo with limited light and power, so... no fridge. Teaching her how to set a budget and plan ahead is one of the best/only things I can do at a distance, so... we're making do. 🤞

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

*I will continue to be grouchy that the courts decided to refuse her emancipation, but WON'T ACTUALLY TAKE HER INTO STATE CARE. So now I'm subsidizing the 17-year-old in a very poor pueblo where light & power are only online for a few hours every day. Life is just so hard for so many. What a world.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

August was pretty wild. Resettled the kid in Venezuela, hopefully to start full-week school again in October, but there were so many setup costs to stabilize her and the young family with her. Grief on my side? Heck yes. But also, tons to wrap up for major launches Sept 1. I hope Sept runs smoother.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm not sure how many more shocks to the system I can take this year. It has been a pretty relentless run of crises and drastic changes on the home front for the last few months. Can we start scheduling out some to 2027 instead?

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Colombia's new far-right president is speed-running hateful policies in depressing deference to the US. My teen ward is now in Venezuela--facing different pressures there, but not as greatly at risk as she would have been here, now. Many others aren't as fortunate. We live in shockingly cruel times.

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Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella announces immigration crackdown

Far-right leader echoes ally Donald Trump and says operations to ‘track down illegal immigrants’ should begin this week, amid earthquake aftermath

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did I get everything finished this weekend? Reader, I did not. And I overlooked an important personal task, too. So today's #PoetryBreak is about that messy ache to be better than we are. Good morning and good Monday! We'll get there. We will.

I Remember the Carrots

by Ada Limón

I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life,
a really good one even, sitting in the kitchen
in Kentucky, imagining how agreeable I’ll be –
the advance of fulfillment, and of desire –
all these needs met, then unmet again.
When I was a kid, I was excited about carrots,
their spidery neon tops in the garden’s plot.
And so I ripped them all out. I broke the new roots
and carried them, like a prize, to my father
who scolded me, rightly, for killing his whole crop.
I loved them: my own bright dead things.
I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong.
Yesterday I was nice, but in truth I resented
the contentment of the field. Why must we practice
this surrender? What I mean is: there are days
I still want to kill the carrots because I can.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You know what? It's a Moebius kind of day. Jean Giraud's art featured and guided marvellous 20th-century comic movements - & I bet you could easily write a whole new story just by sitting with some of his panel work today. Anyone need a #StorySeed for their #ArtBreak? Have at it, if so! #SFFSunday

"City of Fire", by Jean Giraud ("Gir", Moebius), in collaboration with Geof Darrow, 1984

Concept art for "Big Gun", by Jean Giraud ("Gir", Moebius), 1990

"Jimi Hendrix, émociones électriques", by Jean Giraud ("Gir", Moebius), 1998

"Arzach", by Jean Giraud ("Gir", Moebius), 1975

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Camera phones aren't the best with stars, but they do a great job capturing the noise of human life that often gets in the way of remembering one simple truth: We are the only witnesses to the cosmos we know of, and our time here is ever so brief. What will we do with our one and precious lives?

Night sky with flare from lamp posts in the park.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm in the middle of a major work task with pressing deadlines, but... I think today I would also like to carve out a wee slice of time to write. I feel like so much "story" has been bottled up these last few months. You ever get that ache to see what it will look like once it finally spills out?

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today's #ArtBreak comes from the Ottoman Empire. Osman Hamdi Bey's famous "The Tortoise Trainer" is a satire on the slowness of state reform, but also, look at "Two Musician Girls". We often pretend variance is recent, but a true artist in any era knows how to highlight range in the human condition.

"The Tortoise Trainer" by Osman Hamdi Bey. He's been trying to change them since 1906! He'll get there eventually!

You'd be forgiven for assuming this was a painting of two boys, but yes! Femininity outside Orientalist Western interpretations of eastern cultures was wide-ranging and often celebrated as such. "Two Musician Girls" by Osman Hamdi Bey (late 19th century).

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today's #PoetryBreak comes from the collection Staying Still by Hieu Minh Nguyen. This hit me right in the secular humanism. I grew up richly surrounded by different faith traditions, and the lesson they taught me as an atheist is just how many ways we humans ache for community, love, & connection.

SAINT PAUL
by Hieu Minh Nguyen

All my friends have their gods & their heavens
& their plans on how to get there. They forfeit sex
for Lent, pork for life, they light incense, they light
candles, they offer fruit to the dead.
Is this the right time to confess that once I bit a boy
for calling me a Buddhist? Never mind I was six
& did not know what Buddhist meant,
never mind we were inside a Buddhist temple.
For so long, I thought god was played by a rotating cast
of my dead. For so long, god was a boy with a ring of keys
on his belt loop. I never had as much faith as I did then,
but I never talked to god as much as I do now—now
that my want is just the want of birds. At some point,
someone invited me to Easter, then to Seder, then to Eid
& for a night I talked to Andrew’s god, & for a night I
talked to Sam’s god. I talked to Saf’s god. I was a wick lit
by any god that wandered by—an appetite primed
for the miracles of others. & then Paul got sick
& then got better, & I said thank you thank you.
Paul & I are from a city first named after a bootlegger
& then renamed after a saint & when he died,
I caught a flight to a city only he knew, where the humidity
flattened the pleats I’d ironed into my pants.
All my life, I’ve bibled my humiliations, made saints of boys
in bad lighting, never considered heaven, only good weather.
But since all my dead have been called home by different gods,
I know they’re not, like I imagined, all waiting in the same place
for me. For so long, I thought I could get through by throwing
my faith in the general direction of any pulpit.
Thank you friends for showing me your gods,
& thank you gods for showing me my friends,
but the heaven I choose is a heaven I can leave.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've been up way before my alarm every day this week. Not running well yet, but getting out there and pushing more every day. I have tremendous lower back pain from these last few months of work stress, but we'll get there with weights, runs, and eventually zumba classes again. 💪🏻 Paso a paso.

Two paths through my park, which is great for running early in the dark.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The best part of early morning runs is that I get to hang out with my goofball Giant Raccoons again in the park. #Nature #Colombia #HorseFriends #NatureBreak

These horses have a human, but they like to break out and eat fruit peels in the park.

This girl was a bit nippy but friendly. Maybe she was drunk off fruit peels?

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today's #ArtBreak is truly for creators. Writers and artists share a risk of being reduced to a single work or niche. Edvard Munch is much more than "The Scream"; he explored holistic "moods" in nature, even as his world embraced scientific detail. May we always celebrate the multitudes we contain.

"Summer Night at the Beach", by Edvard Munch

"Despair" by Edvard Munch, one of a lesser known series of paintinga from that bridge and vantage point.

"Love and Pain (The Vampire)", by Edvard Munch.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Still a long way from feeling healthy in my body again, but back to my pre-dawn walks in the park. (Fuller runs eventually, when my body stops hurting as much as it currently does.) Here is my pre-dawn "star" today. May the day star keep up with its most excellent competition. #Colombia #Nature

Brownea ariza, a variant named in part after an indigenous term for this plant with bright, explosion-like blooms.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Do you remember Memoria (2021), by Apichatpong Weerasethakul? The film where Tilda Swinton tries to source a strange sound in Colombia while listening to & experiencing many spaces in the country? Can confirm. Just like the movie hints at, we have aliens here. :) Or stunning kites. 50/50, really.

A beautiful squid kite glints rainbow-ly over the treeline.

Two rainbow squid kites flying together at night, over a core city block.

What's that?! Even more bright kites at night? Four in a row!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hello beautiful humans. It's been a rough few weeks/months on my end, but I finally got breathing room this weekend to process my thoughts for myself & to share a fuller round of updates with everyone. This essay runs through recent Colombian politics, the earthquake, & the situation with the kid.

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A Telenovela of Tremors, Teens, and Tricky World Politics

Or, A not-so-brief summary of all the turns my life has taken in recent weeks

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I visited Sheila Williams of Asimov’s in July. She is super lucid, makes mobility progress week over week, but, she needs this bridge care paid for, with PT. Her husband needs 24/7 care also. Please donate what you can ( rant about US health care omitted) gofund.me/db5d9b063

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Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce

Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care

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