Husband, father, teacher, writer, birder, progressiveš and Vegas kid living north of BostonšWriting is my personal practice; teaching is my public service. The opinions here are mine aloneāno homework required.
Tom Guzzio
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Day 10 - A song that makes you want to travel the world.
āLondon is the Place for Meā by Lord Kitchener.
My wife was a seasoned traveler while I grew up in a tourist trap of a town but rarely played tourist.
Then we went to England. Now I love to travel.
Tom Guzzio
This is as good a rejection letter as I could possibly get, I think. Iām very grateful for the kind words.
Now if only I can find the right audience for the essay in questionā¦ #CNF #WritingCommunity
Today I came across a rampaging āresistorā upset with people who challenged an unsourced claim he stated as fact. Two things:
1) No one was defending Trump. They were just challenging the integrity of your claim. Baseless assertions donāt get to be facts just because they fit your narrative.
Thatās what Trump does.
2) Unless we build a platform around something other than hating Trump, weāll be edging ever closer to him, only our version of āMAGAā will be stitched on blue hats. Itās time to use our outrage to inspire more than contempt.
We donāt need fake news. We need real plans.
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic š¼
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Day 11 - A song about a love that changed you.
āThe Original of the Speciesā by U2 was a song Iād sing to my daughter when she was little toddling thing.
She just earned a college degree, and sheās getting married soon. Being her dad made me a better human.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Nesting, birds carrying nesting material, and the alt theme is #Paridae, any of the species.
Iām not positive this black-capped chickadee is going to use that fluffinstuff to pad out a nest, but this might just be a two-fer. #Birds šŖ¶
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Day 9 - A song that sounds like a painting coming to life.
I listened to this New Order song a lot when I aspired to be an abstract expressionist painter.
I donāt paint anymore, but āTemptationā still moves me to be creative.
So āUp. Down. Turn aroundā¦ā
Todayās #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering, images showing flocks, colonies, or communal behavior. The alt is #LivingLandscape, a single bird as part of a wider natural scene. This red- winged blackbird seems to have settled into a Van Gogh painting. #BirdsšŖ¶
Todayās #BirdOfTheDay theme is celebrating #WorldOceansDay so any sea or river bird. The alt is #GardenFavourites, birds you love to see in your garden.
Hereās thirty seconds of iPhone footage showing (I think) semipalmated plovers and semipalmated sandpipers bopping around the beach. #BirdsšŖ¶
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Geese and the alt theme is #Robins. So hereās a Canada goose and an American robin doing things geese and robins do. #Birds šŖ¶
