“Skeletal and pulmonary, winter trees rise into the leaden sky, their skin a braille poem of resistance.”

Maria Popova “The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals of Wonder Through Science & Poetry”

“Conversationalists” © Michael Levy
@michaellevyfineart
Ladysmith, BC

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Some images can really lodge in your mind. This is my latest post on substack: open.substack.com/pub/belasteg...

This evocative photo got me thinking about nostalgia and the way narrative can help us give shape to memory, real or imagined.

open.substack.com/pub/belasteg...

My first post on Substack. I like to make connections between art and literature, or, like here, the intersections between art and lived experience. It’s my little project. 📚

open.substack.com/pub/belasteg...

This made me think
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

What a beautifully poetic, insightful, gorgeously-written novel! I don’t want it to end. #orbital

Papá Noel knew, of course 📚🎄✨

The real person of the year.

So many “unrecorded lives.” And yet, everybody has a story to tell. What are we, in the end, but our (mostly untold) life stories?

Premiada una reportera afgana que trabaja de incógnito para preservar su vida y la de sus fuentes: “Mi objetivo es extender la voz de las mujeres. Esto no es solo un trabajo, es una responsabilidad. Y por esa razón, no tengo miedo de hacerlo”

www.cjr.org/world/afghan...

Mood today 📚