Ah! Bright Wings

“The world is charged w the grandeur of God/There lives the dearest freshness deep down things” Hopkins
(Sarah) Reading & thinking so I can read & think better.

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

"That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower."
— George Eliot, Middlemarch

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

Checkk

[сиера ❤️‍🔥 @mrscaew]

go climb a mountain

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

@albertdrosphoto It looks like a dream

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

TBH, I think there’s merit to both.

Not to making it a twisted motive.

But to highlight how books have a uniquely powerful way to calm, comfort, and speak into those who may be struggling, for one reason or another.

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

No. You didn’t read because you were dissociating or had ADHD; you read because books are a wonderful thing that enriched your life. Finding twisted motives for life’s greatest pleasures will make you miserable. We need to quit pathologizing the things that bring us joy.

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

@ElliottBlackwe3 Maybe cliche, but Emily Dickinson.
Also Carl Sandburg’s succinct but striking “Fog”.

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

@mandolinaes I’d choose the same: Communication: Print Media (ie Creative Writing). It was en excellent program with a dept head very dedicated to his student’s overall success, opened a lot of doors for me from teaching to marketing to copywriting, oh and was how I met my husband. 🥰

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

If I’ve been professionally managing a podcast for 3yrs and the hosts are bringing it to a close, what would be a meaningful gesture/gift for them?

The podcast is content based, but they also get personal, so I feel like I’ve gotten to know them a bit.

Still stumped.

[the human anachronism™️ @FullAsMuchHeart]

I think that the problem with many writers today is they have not read enough metered poetry to understand what their prose is doing to my internal ear.

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

@FullAsMuchHeart You put your finger on something I haven’t been able to yet!

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@Rosie_Gamgee_ Fabulous!

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@2ProbablyNever Oh yes, we do too! I took that as the collective “we” 😂

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@GruffMcdwarf @nivenrile Wow, Gruff McDwarf seems like a fairly unique name to share!

[Samuel Moore @nivenrile]

Is not the sky itself a myth?

[Rich Photography @richphotoio]

“Trees and mountains together — the earth’s perfect harmony of height and depth.” — Mary Oliver

Captured at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

@nivenrile Def that Arby’s part

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“[A fairy tale pictures] the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.”

— G. K. Chesterton: “The Red Angel”

[Ah! Bright Wings @underbrightwing]

Probably shouldn’t be listening to my late-90s angsty pop playlist after a long emotional roller coaster of a weekend—the first in two years with all my siblings together.. all our history, baggage, ups & downs…

🎶“I don’t wanna waAait for our liiives to be over” 🎶

[pingu @pingu4ll]

we’re way too casual about fireflies

[❀ @deallium]

propaganda i will always fall for is a nice walk surrounded by trees waving in the wind and birds singing

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

“The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.”
― E.B. White

[Janie Harrington 🐉 🦉 @GirlsandGoblins]

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