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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"The Old Man on the Mountain: The Seeds of My Historical Novel 45 Years Ago" at thomasdkersting.com

Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"The Old Man on the Mountain: The Seeds of My Historical Novel 45 Years Ago: at thomasdkersting.com/2026/05/the-old-man-on-mountain-seeds-of-my.html #historicalfictionwriters

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IN THE SHADE: A blog on personal narrative and memoir, Irish history/culture, writing and language

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cormorant nests awaiting the return of the spring migration, Putnam County, NY

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Moonlight over the lake in the waning days of winter. Lake Carmel, NY

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Just finished reading this, a memorable, well-written account of achievement, courage, and endurance on Lake Superior.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone." Christina Rosetti

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What do you do with those discarded Christmas trees? "The Burning of the Green," my latest blog post is at www.thomasdkersting.com/2026/01/the-...

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The Burning of the Green

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Winter dusk in the northern suburbs of NYC

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Autumn Sunset, Falmouth, Cape Cod

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Lovely day for a ramble in the Cavan Burren.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me. . . ." Patrick Kavanagh, from "Canal Bank Walk" Grand Canal, Dublin

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Follow Your Bliss: "If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living." --Joseph Campbell

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Going to seed amid September blooms. The Garden, September 13, 2025.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). The Garden, September 1st.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"You People from the 1900s," my latest blog post, is at thomasdkersting.com. #writingcommunity

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Summer evening, Falmouth, Cape Cod

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Blazing dianthus in the late spring garden

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

View from my garden bench in late spring

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

White oleander in the California sunlight

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Fresh pasta at this Italian restaurant in California. Love a good pun.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Stories can keep us alive long after we gone." "A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post is at thomasdkersting.com.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Within a few generations most of us recede from memory, consigned to a leaf on a family tree and fading with the passage of time toward the oblivion of 'the ancestors.' But stories can keep us alive long after we are gone." "A Footprint in Time," my latest blog post, is at thomasdkersting.com.

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We've had so much rain that this lovely old ash just keeled over, it's tired old roots letting go in the saturated earth. #NatureWriting

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Does anyone else keep a Reader's Notebook? I copy into mine fluent, lyrical, or imaginative lines worth noting (credited, of course). It slows down the reading to tab the lines, but provides model lines & phrases to look back on. #authorsandwriters #writingcommunity

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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social · 02/05/2025