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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 5h
Russia uses missiles, our current administration uses bans. Same diff. Yes, our current administration is that fascist and afraid of books, and, yes, it is Banned Book Week. How are you celebrating your freedom to read? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This morning, the one-at-a-time leaves are trying to be slower than each other. The all-at-once leaves have started to offer the hint of color.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A yellow one twirls over and over and over itself. This might be all I do today, take notice and account.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The one-at-a-time leaves have started to fall. They spin, they sail, they knife, falling without even the slightest of wind. They, mostly, take their time, giving one last chance to notice their having been. Here comes another, a little faster, urgent, noticed just the same.
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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tomorrow's Bauder Lecture at Howard Community College (in Columbia, Md.) with graphic novelist Mat Johnson. 12:30 p.m. (Hybrid ) Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Center. More info and live stream link: howardcc.edu/bauderlecture 6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Center
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
change— no one says a thing everyone just watching —the leaves
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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. The festival takes place in the Waverly neighborhood along Waverly Main Street (centering on 30th, 31st, and 32nd streets near Greenmount Avenue). For all you need to know, visit: baltimorebookfest.com
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone in the distance isn't letting their leaf blower shut up. It is blow-viating and just as annoying as that pun.
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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Turn the corner into September and a new season begins. For information on these and other upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org (Events are in and around Columbia, Maryland.)
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When Colbert goes for a second time to recite "The Summer Day" (time stamp 35:50 for anyone seeing this that doesn't have a full ninety minutes to watch at the moment), and in steps Jason Reynolds to finish the poem. Oh my, I might have to watch that every day.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
With the midterms ahead, it will likely be a wreckoning.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In a rare a moment of silence, a wren twitches eagerly back and forth on the rail, full to bursting with the energy of all it is not saying, so much to gossip about again today, its pause nearly over.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. youtu.be/hCyw9F4t7QQ?...
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sigh. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds
PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.wave3.com/2026/09/01/c...
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CRAWFORD | Wendell Berry, the great Kentucky writer who came home and stayed, dies at 92
From a cabin beside the Kentucky River, he wrote about land, community, belonging and small things that turned out to be big.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Imagine a bird, wings folded around itself, settled in somewhere high for the night and ready to dream, falling asleep with this revelation on its mind: I flew again today, my shadow so far away on the ground, racing along watching me watching it.
today.my
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
all summer long these early autumn shadows growing into late sunlight
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How wonder-fully exhausting teaching is.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Now turmeric and ginger and cumin lend… and wherever we were comes swirling here.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
After a week of travel, this stove again: the aroma of warming olive oil, the crackle of chopped onions hitting the heat, slowing into sizzle. Not too long till the spices and even the air makes this place home again. Plates and forks and here and again tomorrow. Home again. Yes, let’s eat.
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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here we go again, in honor of our dear Ellen. The submission window for this year's Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize is now open. All you need to know and the entry form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Down from cleaning debris off the roof post storm, I can count the time spent up there in mosquito bites.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
At the feeder, the graceful hummingbird takes a moment -- perched, motion and movement quickstops -- to shit. And then it's back to itself, all its at-once-everywhere and the already elsewhere sound of it, only the unfindable trace left behind.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This looks interesting: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic
This multi-layered portrait is a fitting tribute to the man behind Ways of Seeing
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
From a happy place to an even happier one, have a good trip.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Good book? Well, the beer got warm and there’s a condensation puddle under the glass to recon with. Humidity has to have dropped percentages.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That cloud just gave up being a cloud, or maybe the humidity got tired of hovering. What an unexpected burst.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Agree. Have also used it to assess things from an ‘outsider’s’ or somewhat other-than-mine perspective. Has been useful. In regard to the fridge, I just play ready-set-cook in honor of a very early FoodTV show (and still one of the best).
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Why are we so eager to use AI and so hesitant to use ourselves?
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
sunflowers — each and every petal a favorite photo album the plastic crackle of a next face wayward glance — that happenstance has a smell every one of us, ashdust of whatever forever is
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
dusk and that moment the last of a wood thrush shares the air with lightning bugs how is it we made wars out of this
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
recognizing a hummingbird recognizing me
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How I pity the after-the-rain spiders, their just perfect webs in need of rebuild once my face walks through them on a trail.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Canada exhaled. Tangy.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Never before, at least five wood thrush and dusk and everything shifting out of one day, and the wood thrush explaining it all. Virtuoso.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There is also a wood thrush doing its thing to make Monday morning sound soooo good.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A hummingbird just came and sat for a while on the deck wire, a kindly reminder to check and refill the feeder as the raccoon most likely emptied it again last night. That dude is always about dessert.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Why is a chipmunk so cute and a mouse so, um, mouse? They are basically the same thing, right?
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I open the front door to put a spider back outside and incinerate.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Either a particular catbird is absolutely everywhere, or this neighborhood is saturated with catbirds at the moment. #meow
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My weird project is to read through the prose to get to the poetry. Previously read a few of those out of order; now going through the fiction chronologically. Will see what I learn. You might like/love the ‘post cards’ book between him and Kooser.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Summer reading. #jimharrison
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Maryland, my Maryland.... This is 7 p.m. and not yet mid June.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The weather goes Southern Gothic. Stabbed or shot, you'd sweat to death before you bled out. Either way, the humidity would weigh your eyelids down. Sleep on, dream on. Wherever you have made it, the weather will be nicer, the air worth the effort of breathing.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I tend to roll my eyes at folks that say they are giving it 110%, just not a possibility the way percents work. But dammit, if Maryland's humidity ain't giving it 120% this morning. And we aren't even slightly into summer, yet.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Listening to the recycling truck die as it moves through the neighborhood. It's like an ice cream truck through these geographies, but with the suffering of all Hell in its voice.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sign of another day, the voice of a chain saw. Woody suburbia looks for a bit more of the sky.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
plump and circumstance? they get big around these parts.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of those mornings where the dogs of the neighborhood measure out the space of things in barks. The lot of them. For a moment, it’s as everywhere as the sunshine and just as happy.
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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Between the wind and me, all the silence of a blue sky.
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