"Sometimes it was clear and bluebird-bright, and sometimes snow fell all around them and the world was wrapped in silence, and then the winter sun would break through the trees and the light -- apricot, aquamarine -- would appear against the horizon."
COUNTRY PEOPLE Daniel Mason
#SundaySentence
Oops, incorrectly posted poem pic (although also a great poem!) - here is the correct one!
This month, the ArtWorks for Cancer team installed 107 beautiful works at Stedman Community Hospice in Brantford. Learn more and enjoy a photo gallery of the work in progress and joyfully finished at: artworksforcancer.com/projects/ste...
Today’s #SundaySentence is from the entertaining restaurant farce The Reservation, by Rebecca Kauffman.
Like all good bartenders, Darius had mastered the two most important aspects of his job: pretending he was listening when he was not listening, and pretending he was not listening when he was.
"If you follow the trail of blue seeds" (1)
some of them are big and some are small
but they're all the same seed"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Choices by Quiency George in O.K., K.O., O.K. (2026 @tdsb.on.ca) tdsb.insigniails.com/library/Item...
(1) from "Beads the Right Size and Colour" by Marily Dumont
"following only her wet nose,
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Dharma by Billy Collins, illustrated by Pamela Sztybel from Dog Show (2025 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790238...
"Who could have painted your walls?
Who could have given you words, warmth, light?
Thinly veiled shame. This stripped poem."
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Stripped poem (Gestript gedicht) by Menno Wigman, translated by Inga Buyse (2016 Lonely Funeral Foundation) pshares.org/blog/the-dut...
"Who chooses the site of a vision, the witness or the apparition?"
#SundaySentence by Doireann Ní Ghríofa from Said the Dead (2026 @faberbooks.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
"Of such a little Dog am I
Reminded by a Boy
Who gambols all the living Day
Without an earthly cause"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
A little Dog that wags his tail by Emily Dickinson (1870) allpoetry.com/poem/1432678...
Happy Knit in Public Day! (Yes, I've gone this far, knitting - well crocheting - al fresco ...)