“July”
alone on the jetty
waves slapping at my feet
gently, playfully
i hear you call my name
clearly, crisply
a case of mistaken identity
with the breeze
rippling across the bay
how you have stitched yourself
into everything woven
throughout my day
-rene
#poetry #vssthreads #identity
alone on the jetty
waves slapping at my feet
gently, playfully
i hear you call my name
clearly, crisply
a case of mistaken identity
with the breeze
rippling across the bay
how you have stitched yourself
into everything woven
throughout my day
-rene
#poetry #vssthreads #identity
July 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
“July”
alone on the jetty
waves slapping at my feet
gently, playfully
i hear you call my name
clearly, crisply
a case of mistaken identity
with the breeze
rippling across the bay
how you have stitched yourself
into everything woven
throughout my day
-rene
#poetry #vssthreads #identity
alone on the jetty
waves slapping at my feet
gently, playfully
i hear you call my name
clearly, crisply
a case of mistaken identity
with the breeze
rippling across the bay
how you have stitched yourself
into everything woven
throughout my day
-rene
#poetry #vssthreads #identity
this is how we flew
this is where sighed
but this is where
our lines ended
missing connection
if only we dared
if only we tried
-rene
#poetry #poem #vssthreads #creativewriting
this is where sighed
but this is where
our lines ended
missing connection
if only we dared
if only we tried
-rene
#poetry #poem #vssthreads #creativewriting
June 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
this is how we flew
this is where sighed
but this is where
our lines ended
missing connection
if only we dared
if only we tried
-rene
#poetry #poem #vssthreads #creativewriting
this is where sighed
but this is where
our lines ended
missing connection
if only we dared
if only we tried
-rene
#poetry #poem #vssthreads #creativewriting
Either way, the lesson stands:
small legumes can convene
remarkably persuasive conversations.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
small legumes can convene
remarkably persuasive conversations.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 27, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Either way, the lesson stands:
small legumes can convene
remarkably persuasive conversations.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
small legumes can convene
remarkably persuasive conversations.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
We don’t miss the wins so much
as the version of ourselves
who believed tomorrow
would always feel this light.
Growing up is learning
which joys were seasonal,
and how to hold them
without asking them back.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
as the version of ourselves
who believed tomorrow
would always feel this light.
Growing up is learning
which joys were seasonal,
and how to hold them
without asking them back.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
We don’t miss the wins so much
as the version of ourselves
who believed tomorrow
would always feel this light.
Growing up is learning
which joys were seasonal,
and how to hold them
without asking them back.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
as the version of ourselves
who believed tomorrow
would always feel this light.
Growing up is learning
which joys were seasonal,
and how to hold them
without asking them back.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
Some expressions travel this way:
not declared,
but felt—
a grammar of proximity.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
not declared,
but felt—
a grammar of proximity.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 25, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Some expressions travel this way:
not declared,
but felt—
a grammar of proximity.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
not declared,
but felt—
a grammar of proximity.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 23, 2026 at 11:17 AM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
But in an age of velocity and scale,
smallness learned a new rhetoric:
it refused optimisation,
insisted on memory,
and proved that intimacy
can still outpace efficiency.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
smallness learned a new rhetoric:
it refused optimisation,
insisted on memory,
and proved that intimacy
can still outpace efficiency.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 22, 2026 at 11:14 AM
But in an age of velocity and scale,
smallness learned a new rhetoric:
it refused optimisation,
insisted on memory,
and proved that intimacy
can still outpace efficiency.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
smallness learned a new rhetoric:
it refused optimisation,
insisted on memory,
and proved that intimacy
can still outpace efficiency.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 21, 2026 at 11:35 AM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
Must exhibit fluency in diplomacy,
lethality toward inefficiency,
and an aversion to unnecessary bloodshed.
Leadership role.
Conscience preferred.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
lethality toward inefficiency,
and an aversion to unnecessary bloodshed.
Leadership role.
Conscience preferred.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Must exhibit fluency in diplomacy,
lethality toward inefficiency,
and an aversion to unnecessary bloodshed.
Leadership role.
Conscience preferred.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
lethality toward inefficiency,
and an aversion to unnecessary bloodshed.
Leadership role.
Conscience preferred.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
Sleepless, that's how I started my day. Stepping over the clutter of unfinished tasks, a #surfer on the gloom of the sleeping household, all but certain to wipe out on my way to the coffee. #vssThreads
February 19, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Sleepless, that's how I started my day. Stepping over the clutter of unfinished tasks, a #surfer on the gloom of the sleeping household, all but certain to wipe out on my way to the coffee. #vssThreads
What looks like leisure from shore
is survival by literacy—
reading forces larger than oneself,
adjusting posture,
and staying upright
while others insist the water should obey.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
is survival by literacy—
reading forces larger than oneself,
adjusting posture,
and staying upright
while others insist the water should obey.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 19, 2026 at 11:49 AM
What looks like leisure from shore
is survival by literacy—
reading forces larger than oneself,
adjusting posture,
and staying upright
while others insist the water should obey.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
is survival by literacy—
reading forces larger than oneself,
adjusting posture,
and staying upright
while others insist the water should obey.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
SOFT FRACTURE
— where light gets in
A #rift is not always rupture.
Sometimes it is permission—
the seam where certainty loosens,
and imagination slips through.
Broken open, yes,
but gentled by breath,
until the gap learns
how to glow
instead of divide.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ #vssThreads
— where light gets in
A #rift is not always rupture.
Sometimes it is permission—
the seam where certainty loosens,
and imagination slips through.
Broken open, yes,
but gentled by breath,
until the gap learns
how to glow
instead of divide.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ #vssThreads
February 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
SOFT FRACTURE
— where light gets in
A #rift is not always rupture.
Sometimes it is permission—
the seam where certainty loosens,
and imagination slips through.
Broken open, yes,
but gentled by breath,
until the gap learns
how to glow
instead of divide.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ #vssThreads
— where light gets in
A #rift is not always rupture.
Sometimes it is permission—
the seam where certainty loosens,
and imagination slips through.
Broken open, yes,
but gentled by breath,
until the gap learns
how to glow
instead of divide.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ #vssThreads
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
They circle loudly,
astonished that the ground below
has learned to move on
without looking up.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
astonished that the ground below
has learned to move on
without looking up.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
They circle loudly,
astonished that the ground below
has learned to move on
without looking up.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
astonished that the ground below
has learned to move on
without looking up.
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
@evieneedsmorebooks ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
and teaches us the cruel arithmetic of living:
you may revisit the scene,
never the innocence.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
you may revisit the scene,
never the innocence.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
and teaches us the cruel arithmetic of living:
you may revisit the scene,
never the innocence.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
you may revisit the scene,
never the innocence.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
But truer delight resists narcotics:
it sharpens attention,
restores appetite for consequence,
and reminds the citizen
that joy, properly used,
is a form of vigilance.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
it sharpens attention,
restores appetite for consequence,
and reminds the citizen
that joy, properly used,
is a form of vigilance.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 PM
But truer delight resists narcotics:
it sharpens attention,
restores appetite for consequence,
and reminds the citizen
that joy, properly used,
is a form of vigilance.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
it sharpens attention,
restores appetite for consequence,
and reminds the citizen
that joy, properly used,
is a form of vigilance.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
Friends call it dedication.
I call it romance—
the kind where the beloved never texts back
but keeps rearranging my life anyway.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
I call it romance—
the kind where the beloved never texts back
but keeps rearranging my life anyway.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Friends call it dedication.
I call it romance—
the kind where the beloved never texts back
but keeps rearranging my life anyway.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
I call it romance—
the kind where the beloved never texts back
but keeps rearranging my life anyway.
@nicole.b.tea ✍️ @vss.threads #vssThreads
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 AM