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#haikuaday 6-15-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤


@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

I'm a couple days early, but my #tuesdaytunes selection is the last Doomtree album, appropriately titled No Kings. I have been a DT fan since I first moved to the Twin Cities for a few years back in '09 and to this day No Kings remains one of my favorite albums from a hip hop collective.
@tiedyedude

How sad that this is the world we live in now.

This was a collectors book fair and we enjoyed seeing all the signed first edition books 📚

Fully completed had such a great time exploring 📚📚📚

One for the #OrangeOne 🤐

There has been very little coverage of the USA protests (so far) today, in the UK press/news. 🤬

#NoKings

“How can I be substantial without casting a shadow? I must have a dark side too if I am to be whole: and by becoming conscious of my shadow I remember once more that I am a human being like any other.”

~ C.G. Jung~

I am reading these books this weekend, two are buddy reads and one is for continuing the series I have started years ago 😃

Thanks for the tag @KadaGul

I tag @MariaW @dabbe @DaveGreen7777

#weekendreads

Happy birthday US Army!! 🎊🎉🎈 #flag 🇺🇸

“For 250 years, Soldiers have proudly served our country and protected its people, with our oath to support and defend the Constitution as our guiding principle,” said Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael R. Weimer. “We continue to stand ready to respond to the needs of the nation, and to fight and win when called upon. This we‘ll defend.” **article from google

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#JuneSpecials

Thanks @KadaGul #weekendreads
What about you @Kshakal @peaKnit @rachelsbrittain

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: FLAG

#poetrymatters #whittle
@thespineview

What else should I write about? 😸

Laundry day today
Up, up and down, down I go
While cats are watching

#haikuhive

@itchyfeetreader
@kristy_k
@debinhawaii
@mimi28
@thebookhippie
@jenlovesjt47
@reggie
@vivastory
@eggs
@jdiehr
@thespineview
@cbee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@anncrystal
@bellabella
@booksandcoffee4me
@dabbe

#haikuaday 6-14-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

#Whittle

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

This is cool.

#haikuaday #haikuhive

@dabbe @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @CBee @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @vivastory @Eggs @Mimi28 @Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

Only one more spot left for@the book fair tomorrow so excited to get this completed 📚

The last for#ur stores I went to today … I‘m going to miss doing this next week but now I have so many great books added to my tbr and I still have tomorrow for the book fair 📚📚

So Thursday I only had 4spots left for my full blackout bingo great times looking at all of these bookstores 📚

I forgot to post this Thursdays bookstore exploration these are the five places I went on Thursday so much fun to go to all of these and visit the Powell‘s in Beaverton 📚📚📚

How lovely! 😍 A treat for my fellow #VirginiaBloomsberries

A new story from Deborah Levy, drawing inspiration from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.

https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/journey-to-the-temple-a-new-story-i...

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Physical Books
2. eBooks
3. Spending Friday afternoon book shopping, having lunch and hanging out with my BFF and her 2.5 year old daughter (pic are my purchases and my Kindle Paperwhite that was delivered today!)
4. Having grocery shopping as the only item on my Saturday “to do” list
5. Spending Sunday at the ballpark with my husband and his dad for Father‘s Day

Find the joys, they‘re out there! 💛🧡🩷

More Boston! I am back home to reality and enjoying Frankie snuggles! Thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii #5joysFriday

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. My grandson started preschool last week and is happily adjusting.
2. I got moved and settled into my new classroom.
3. Ice cream!
4. My wonderful husband.
5. Summer vacation

Happy Friday everyone!! 🖤🖤🖤

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Another stress-filled and at times horrifying week, but a moment to recognize joys:

1. My boys…always! They so hate me taking photos of them! 😂
2. Author event last Saturday and a signed book. Craig Johnson is a hoot!
3. Air conditioning, and it‘s not even sultry yet here!
4. Zeke has more good days than bad…hooray!
5. Litsy

#5JoysFriday

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Strawberry Shortcake at the concert in the park.
2. Trying to wear sneakers after foot surgery.😩
3. Upcycled a side table that I found at a yard sale.
4. New tattoo. Pretty Poodle.
5. Scored those outdoor chairs for the low on Marketplace.

#MidsummerSolace #FridayNightShare

Let's swap our favourite reads to relax or calm us. It's been a stressful week in world events, never mind what's going on in our own lives.

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

1-granddaughter reading by the pool
2-field of sunflowers near the creek
3-photo I found of cascading twinkly way to frame a bed
4 & 5-finished 2 Greenwald books that were 5 stars

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

Everyone‘s tagged ❤️

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: SEWING

I thought this was interesting. I‘m looking forward to other essays on the topic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevenjreese/p/not-all-reading-is-good-reading?r=4...

#MidsummerSolace

This world rn is too much. Thankfully, we have Litsy to soothe our 💔 What are you doing to find solace and comfort?
Please share your tips on coping.

My tips
❤️‍🩹Don't be afraid to ask for help.
❤️‍🩹 Check news once daily. Less if it's too much.
❤️‍🩹 Look for the hope stories, the helpers, the fighters, the resisters, and the champions.
❤️‍🩹 Distract yourself with your favourite pastimes.
❤️‍🩹 Be in the company of others.

Oh my god!! Going to be a book 6!! 19 May 2026!!!

I do like this as some kind of 21st century diary.

No post yesterday
Even though I wanted to
My body was Pain

#haikuhive

@itchyfeetreader
@kristy_k
@debinhawaii
@mimi28
@thebookhippie
@jenlovesjt47
@reggie
@vivastory
@eggs
@jdiehr
@thespineview
@cbee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@anncrystal
@bellabella
@booksandcoffee4me
@dabbe

#haikuaday 6-13-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛


 @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
 @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

In 1968, we teen girls wore dresses to school! My mom used this pattern to sew me a dress and I loved it ❤️

#Sewing

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Pickles thanks you for all the well wishes, and wants you to know that she is still a fierce tabby tiger! 🥰🥰

#Whistle

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

June so far. Slower than May, but I managed a #bookspin book (Little Lies) and the next in the series for #EBBR.

I‘m so behind on a lot of buddy reads and Litsy happenings.

Pickles update. Unfortunately, Pickles has a large mass up her nose that there's not much the vets can do about. She has been rapidly going downhill. She can't hear very much, she's wobbly and her nose is blocked.

She still enjoys the sunshine and getting fussed, and she's fine with her new diet of gourmet mousse and Lick-e-lix, but it still breaks my heart.

I love her so much and we're just taking each day as it comes.

#picklescat

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: RED ROSE

It seems I‘m not done writing about this…

#haikuaday 6-12-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @lil1inblue
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader

My final selection is a psychedelic sci-fi manga about chemically altered emotions and the fallout from this industry. The artwork in this one is wild & trippy. Definitely one of the more memorable graphic narratives read so far this year.
#bestof2025

Hey Littens! Guess What? I have finished some books for My #BookishMonopoly.

I enjoyed all of these books. The Spellshop is the one that i think that stands out the most. Found family 💜

As always, feel free to join in with me on my #BookishMonopoly Journey. Everyone is welcome at anytime. I don't do mine month to month. Its just when I feel like playing/reading.

7 spots to go with 4 days left … I think I‘ll make it 👀📚

Went to 7 bookstores only 4 were open 🤦🏼‍♀️ and one was not a bookstore it was just a wine store and the guy was rude so if you visit don‘t go to “Pairing Portland” not nice people there … otherwise had another great day discovering new bookstores 👍🏼😊

#unrelated2books

“Washington envisioned a republic where power rested with the people and was not concentrated in the hands of a single individual.“

As an American Indigenous, I don't usually hoot for the founding fathers...due to the whole stolen land and genocide history...nevertheless, perhaps we all need to remind the suppressors

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