Kathie Lilly

[Kathie Lilly @KTBird68]

@buds2tall Good morning, Bud!

[Kathie Lilly @KTBird68]

@buds2tall Damn, indeed, Bud. I’d never heard that song before, but they’re right on both counts.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Yday I went with rock-loving daughter to Folkestone…for fossils. The ‘one tunnel is closed’ Dartford crossing doom totally worth it for the wonder on her face when we found an ammonite. My lovely enamel colander’s now lost at sea, but I’m certain jumblies are sailing in it 💯👍🏼

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

The smallest garden posy I’ve ever made, in the tiniest old bottle…I’m determined to continue to make this place somewhere that offers calm & solace rather than stress & anxiety 🌿

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about Ablaut reduplication.

If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
tic-tac-toe

If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
click-clack
King-Kong

[Kathie Lilly @KTBird68]

@lindaholmes Here’s Gus at the end of the 2015 Oscars. Made it through to the bitter end at 1:50 a.m.

[Anne Margaret Daniel @venetianblonde]

Townes Van Zandt was born on this day in 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas. Few things are closer to my heart than his gentle, casual performance of "Pancho and Lefty" in Heartworn Highways. Happy birthday, Townes, on the high prairie where your spirit rides x

https://t.co/uScAd4M9B7

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

BOOK GIVEAWAY! On 13 Feb 1997, nearly 5m bits of Lego fell into the ocean when a cargo ship was hit by a huge wave. To mark the occasion, we’re giving away 2 copies of our book Adrift, a voyage into the lingering legacy of a cargo spill. To enter, just like and retweet this post

[HarryHew @harryhew]

For @JanetMaslin and anybody else interested: I have reupped to YouTube the 2004 Grammy tribute to Warren Zevon. Featuring Ariel Zevon, Jordan Zevon, Jorge Calderón, Emmylou Harris, Timothy B. Schmit, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, and Dwight Yoakam.

https://t.co/LVAANBgTIl

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“did you study the humanities” yes and I had the best teacher

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

This is quite remarkable. After winter storms in January last year, we found the remains of an old teddy bear washed up. When we shared a picture online, Anglican priest @CassWoollibold asked if she could restore him.

A thread.

[Kevin Daly @kevinddaly]

1970s SNL was wild: you could find Bea Arthur hosting an episode with musical guest The Roches singing an a cappella rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus.

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

“Remembrance of Birds” is an old Scandinavian tradition. A “Julenek”, the last sheaf of harvest grain bundled together, is left out for the birds at #Christmas. Farmers believed that feeding the birds at Christmastime would ensure good luck the following year. #FairytaleTuesday

[Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell]

Happy Winter Solstice, everyone! Here’s to the sun slowly beginning its return to us ✨
(Art by Emily Balivet)
#WinterSolstice

[Judy Freshwater Polak @jfpolak]

.@WVHumanities reminds us: Belsnickling is an ancient mid-winter tradition similar to many old winter solstice practices. Of German origin, it consists of masqueraded groups going from house to house and having neighbors guess who they are.
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[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

17th Window.Dark already & they were having sherry in the parlour.Listen, said Old Fox suddenly, carollers! He opened the door & there in the snow were so many friends.The Doctor & the Mice from the farm, Grey Brock with his concertina; Good King Wenceslas blessing the night air.

[Mackenzie Mays @MackenzieMays]

The paper that raised me, whose credo at least used to be “sustained outrage,” fired reporters for raising ethical questions on behalf of the very outraged community they’ve represented so well.

A great childhood friend of mine died in that mining explosion. He was 21.

[John Raby @jrabyap]

Three West Virginia reporters fired after condemning their company's website interview of ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship https://t.co/Ku99H3p4aZ

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

14th Window. Squirrel had spent the night sewing, repairing expensive evening gowns. In the morning, exhausted, she went downstairs to answer the door. It was Bear, with a Christmas tree & coal & good food. She was so tired, she couldn't even thank him, she just started to cry.