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Writer: Historical Fiction, Memoir, Personal Essays Blog: thomasdkersting.com #historicalfictionwriters #writingcommunity #authors&writing #booksky #BluePit

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Like Putin's "special military operation"?

07.03.2026 20:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just finished reading this, a memorable, well-written account of achievement, courage, and endurance on Lake Superior.

24.02.2026 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"In the bleak midwinter,
frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
water like a stone."
Christina Rosetti

19.01.2026 03:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Orwell said, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." The Trump regime is proof of that.

15.01.2026 04:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Burning of the Green

What do you do with those discarded Christmas trees?
"The Burning of the Green," my latest blog post is at
www.thomasdkersting.com/2026/01/the-...

06.01.2026 00:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Winter dusk in the northern suburbs of NYC

31.12.2025 17:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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IN THE SHADE: A blog on personal narrative and memoir, Irish history/culture, writing and language

"Abie's Christmas," my annual Christmas post:
www.thomasdkersting.com/2025/12/blog...

22.12.2025 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#NatureWriting
Ben Bulben Mountain, Sligo, Ireland

25.11.2025 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Later, dude.

24.11.2025 18:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Autumn Sunset, Falmouth, Cape Cod

21.11.2025 05:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Autumn Sunset

07.11.2025 21:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brewster, NY

19.10.2025 01:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lovely day for a ramble in the Cavan Burren.

28.09.2025 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin

25.09.2025 15:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Follow Your Bliss:
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell

24.09.2025 20:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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September Dahlias

24.09.2025 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Going to seed amid September blooms. The Garden, September 13, 2025.

13.09.2025 21:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great!

01.09.2025 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). The Garden, September 1st.

01.09.2025 22:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"You People of the 1900s," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.

#BluePit
#writingcommunity

12.07.2025 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"You People from the 1900s," my latest blog post, is at
thomasdkersting.com.

#writingcommunity

12.07.2025 01:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mandel, Revelations by Elaine Pagels, Hamner by Maggie O'Farrell.

10.07.2025 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They should tell that to priests who all but endorsed Trump.

09.07.2025 03:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's truly deluded if he thinks he represents the middle. Just another American Fascist.

06.07.2025 20:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's smug, elitist, biased, and dismissive.

06.07.2025 20:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lilies in bloom

05.07.2025 03:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Summer evening, Falmouth, Cape Cod

05.07.2025 03:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not just one man but his minions too.

03.07.2025 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A sad 4th coming up. Not much to celebrate for America.

03.07.2025 21:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jesus weeps.

03.07.2025 21:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0