Aimee Knupsky
@aknupsky
Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid. @bookchantment on Instagram
The Good We Can Imagine This kale seed I am planting in the soil feels like throwing a pebble at a panzer tank. It is a tiny act of defiance against the oil-dependent insanity of our food chain but still I must kneel
"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: 1/2
The first Cultural Series event of the year sponsored by my Friends of the Library group was today and it was a deeply timely topic. I highly recommend Unexploded Ordinance by Catharina Coenen, a collection of essays about how the trauma of war reverberates through generations.
"Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?" With all my heart, I believe this is what liberal arts education did/could do so well. Not increase our earnings, not force us to find uses for technology we don't need.
"Oh, how the uber-executives must chortle among themselves, to see how quickly we bereaved are giving in to grief at the dying, overlooking the methodical and hugely profitable killing they order every day." Kathleen Dean Moore 💙📚
Where is the new edition of Fanny Wright's lectures from the Hall of Science? We may not have that, but we have Popova, reminding us... "Enough have we of churches... enough of bridewells in jails. Enough of monuments to the dead, and prisons for the living.
"There's no simple formula for unlearning the ideologies that have seeped into our bones. It's an ongoing process of breaking free from a worldview that has shaped how we see God, ourselves, and others. That might feel overwhelming, but there's also something sacred in it.
We are all carrying so much in our bodies. Find the moments to curl up on a blanket in a basket. Beans thinks there may be space next to her.
Last read of 2025. Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty. Highly recommend. "Ocean, as I step into you I ask that you seek out what is precious in me; etch it with your salt fingers and smooth it against the dip and rise of your sleeping chest.
There he is. My dad. ❤️ Whose grandfather was thrown out of his company house for joining the union. Love him and so proud to have learned from him and my papa.
So fun a read, I went ahead and downloaded the audio book so I could listen to it as well.
Back on Bluesky after a two week healing-hiatus. This guy personifies the news horrors that were butchering my heart. Plan to be more careful and take more breaks. PS. I found him (and left him) at a local antique store. He has been calling to me ever since. Should I go back or is it a trap??
"Wonder tales cultivate our capacity to be humble and act humbly; as such, wonder is both the trigger and the product of transformation, ours and the world's.
"The speaker in this case is a middle-aged witch, me-- tangled on my two great arms, my face in a book and my mouth wide, ready to tell you a story or two." 📚💙
"That anyone could feel happiness during the great pestilence and the years beyond was an indication that human kind had either a remarkable resilience or an inability to comprehend the desperateness of their lives." 💙📚
Currently reading...about fears we've apparently always had and about how the world will go on, perhaps happily, without us. 📚💙
Met a powerful, playful, sardonic woman writer from Argentina who was said to be of the "Big Bad Wolf school" with stories "demasiado crueles." What a trippy joy. From Report on Heaven and Hell: "Be careful. If you choose more things from Hell than from Heaven, you may be sent to Heaven;
"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side...