#art to start 🎨
...lifting haze

'Canopy'
Artist: Kathryn St. Clair
#painting #oil #OilPainting

orange-rust glows above
rusty leaves lie underfoot
an autumn medley

#DailyHaikuPrompt - rust, fallen leaves
#haiku #SmallPoems

#art to start 🎨
...winter's coming

'The Tree of Crows'
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
#painting #oil #OilPainting #landscape

In this time of rampant book banning, a reminder that four library systems in the US offer the Books Unbanned program giving access to their electronic collections to young people anywhere across the country. Seattle Public Library's program is open to young people from 13 to 26, and over 19,000 have signed up for a card, and checked out more than 571,400 ebooks and audiobooks so far.

To get a Books Unbanned card at SPL, get reading recommendations, or find out more information about the program, check out:
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned

(Edited 10/8/2025 with the most recent numbers, there's been quite in increase in use.)

#BannedBooksWeek2025 #BannedBooks #BooksUnbanned #FreedomToRead #libraries #SPL #PNW @Libraries

#art to start🎨
...peace on the water

'Along the Rhine XIII'
Artist: Tanja Vetter
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting #landscape

It is a serious thing, nothing.
The notion confounds the mind
As wind confounds the sea.
A woman fixes words to a miracle,
A man describes himself to God.
The syllables amount to something,
But they are nothing to speak of.
-- 'To Speak of Nothing' by N. Scott Momaday

#VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry #NScottMomaday @bookstodon

(Art credit: Sisa Jasper)

Great news from my local library! The Seattle Public Library is joining with the Brooklyn Public Library to provide young people across the US access to all its digital books and audiobooks with a Books Unbanned e-card.

#reading #books #libraries #supportLibraries #FreedomToRead #Seattle @bookstodon

(Edited to update link)

https://www.spl.org/about-us/news-releases/the-seattle-public-library-joins-books-unbanned-to-fight-censorship-with-free-card-for-youth