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Excuse me I am trying to read about the political schism dividing Evangelical Christian America

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What’s this? An itsy bitsy Australian marsupial called a Giles’ planigale.

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The Ride of Dernhelm

Across the wide sea of golden-grassed plain

Sails Windfola, swift, bearing two without name

In day yet darkened by menace unspoken

Gentler lies are soon to be broken

As on with the company, racing toward doom

At the walls of yon city, be-circled with gloom

Dernhelm the Silent keeps hidden his face

But hides not his passion, his strength and fell grace.

To War! beats his heart, to Death! sings his sword

But rides he in silence, without leave of his lord.

Cloak-hidden, shadow-ridden he takes all care to be

For the secret he keeps, his brothers must not see

That secret he holds and another he bears

Before him on Windfola: a small hobbit shares

His duty and destiny, to great deeds they are called

Upon Pelennor's vast field before the prize thus high-walled

For there in that doom a dark Power lay,

waiting and coiled, whom no man can slay.

How then can this man, fierce and strong though he be

Strike true? End the terror? Make the walled city free?

But that deed will soon come. Two wounds will be wrought

One by hobbit, brave and true, a man and yet not

And Dernhelm the Silent will give voice at last

Striking true, Death banished back into the Past

At great cost, that blow giv'n, yet hope will remain

For the hero to sing and ride out free again

But proud, hair unbound, laughter ringing and strong

For the secret is done, surprise mingled with song

As his helm is then moved, and his kinsmen find there

True hero yet no brother: Eowyn the Fair.

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ID credit: 6890789737 on 小红书

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oh ok

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Real Talk

This poetry comic appears in the latest issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Thanks to author Shoshana Flax for giving me the chance to illustrate her words!

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This is up there with the company that used to be called Alaska Business Exchange Services, a contractor with a school board my husband used to work for.

Every single one of their employees had this email: [name]@akebsexchange.com.

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Nature never stopped healing

today's bug thing is this giant beetle sculpture!

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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”  ~ Mother Teresa

(click onto photos to enlarge and see the mama Chipping Sparrow in the second photo)

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