Lara Maynard 🫐

@laralou

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Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· 6d

“The ticking of the clocks sounds like mice nibbling at time.” - Alphonse Allais, “The Black Cat,” 1890 quoted in The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social #SundaySentence

Screenshot of cover of The Paris Express which includes an illustration of a train with a lot of smoke from its stack and a Giller Prize Finalist red sticker.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· 27d

#SundaySentence “I never knew my mother. She died the night that l was born, and so we passed each other in the dark.” From Isola by Allegra Goodman

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· 28d

Lil laundry helper #Caturday

Tuxedo cat with upended basket of laundry

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· 28d

My #FridayReads is The Berry Pickers for book club next week.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Jun 14

“It was like walking through a folk song that afternoon — the blackbirds and the thrushes, the sweetness of the flowers, the boy I loved, and who might even love me, waiting for me between the trees.” Seán Hewitt - Open, Heaven #SundaySentence #FolkloreSunday #QueerBooks

Photo: Hand holding book Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt with illustrated cover in yellow and green showing wood path in dappled light, with title and author in white font. Grass, trees, blue and cloudy sky in background.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· May 30

We Meet Apart 5 book #giveaway app.hive.co/l/3ysc3x

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· May 12

This evening! Join members of The Torbay Public Library Book Club for a special meeting with Angela Antle, winner of the 2025 BMO Winterset Award, discussing her novel The Saltbox Olive, with a photo presentation of the 166th Field Artillery Newfoundland Regiment. Free, no registration required.

Poster showing cover of The Saltbox Olive and photo of Angela Antle.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· May 3

“…fill up on nature, on her staggering, showoffy beauty and her schoolmarm lessons: let her blow your mind with awe and the interconnectedness of all things.” #SundaySentence from Anne Lamott post of May 2/26 on Facebook: bit.ly/49dndbp @annelamott.bsky.social

Screenshot of part of a Facebook post by Anne Lamott, with this sentence highlighted:

“The practical/spiritual part, in the loosest meaning of the word “spiritual” is to fill up on nature, on her staggering, showoffy beauty and her schoolmarm lessons: let her blow your mind with awe and the interconnectedness of all things.”

Flora covered in ice, close up. My photo. ©️Lara Maynard, 2026.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Apr 19

“I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.” #SundaySentence from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social) Via Read a Little Poem on Facebook. @readalittlepoem.bsky.social #SmallPoemSunday #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poem

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Apr 12

“There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)” by Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) poets.org/poem/there-w... #TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth #Spring #poem #poetry

Poem text:

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Mar 20

The #FirstDayOfSpring in my backyard. Sun is shining, birds are singing, bees are buzzing, butterflies are flitting! If l close my eyes. #NLwx #Spring

Grey sky, snowy deciduous trees, snow covered ground.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Mar 2

“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney. Source: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Facebook. #TodaysPoem #PoetrySky #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 #SeamusHeaney #poem #poetry

f the poem. The text reads:

The Clothes Shrine

It was a whole new sweetness
In the early days to find
Light white muslin blouses
On a see-through nylon line
Drip-drying in the bathroom
Or a nylon slip in the shine
Of its own electricity -
As if St Brigid once more
Had rigged up a ray of sun
Like the one she’d strung on air
To dry her own cloak on
(Hard-pressed Brigid, so
Unstoppably on the go) -
The damp and slump and unfair
Drag of the workaday
Made light of and got through
As usual, brilliantly.

From Electric Light (2001)

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Feb 22

Eating chocolate cake in the bath during a snowstorm while listening to Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito narrated by Anna Burnett 🎧 with the @libbyapp.com. As one does. #AmReading #AmListening #VictorianPsycho

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Jan 20

#TodaysPoem “The Problem with Early Warnings” by Charles Rafferty @southernreview.bsky.social

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Jan 4

“January has never been a month for reinvention.” #SundaySentence The quiet #folklore of #January: open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon... ✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social 📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx

Snow-covered shrubs and trees with grey sky.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Dec 28

Also a sea slug that does photosynthesis. Amazing!

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Dec 28

“Even the air will have to pretend.” - Prince of Fire/Prince by Jane Mead www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoem #SundaySentence

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Nov 9

“The world is wide and full of grace, I promise you.” - A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander #SundaySentence @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social

Screenshot of cover of A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander with an illustration of part of what appears to be the bottom half of a white man’s smooth face and his upper torso, he dressed in lacy white and blue Regency period style.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Oct 10

My #FridayReads is Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. Audiobook with the Libby library app. 🧙‍♀️ 🎧 📖

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Oct 4

#JaneGoodall 🩵

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Oct 4

My #FridayReads: Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley - on Libby 🎧 #AmReading #AmListening #LibbyApp #audiobook #LibraryLover

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Sep 26

My #FridayReads is The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher. #Booksky

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Sep 1

#TodaysPoem “The Hag’s Call” by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin printed in #Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie @sharonblackie.bsky.social, @newworldlibrary.bsky.social. Illus by Natalie Eslick. You can also read it at: www.connotationpress.com/featured-gue... #poem #poetry #poems

Cover of Hagitude, lushly illustrated with part view of a woman, twigs, berries, leaves and mushrooms.

Black and white illustration of a woman and bird. Poem text.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Aug 17

#AmReading #AmListening to Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - #audiobook from @libbyapp.com. There are vampires. How did l not now there would be vampires? #BuryOurBonesintheMidnightSoil

Cover of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Aug 17

“And l have become the child of clouds, and of hope.” #SundaySentence from Mary Oliver’s "To Begin With, the Sweet Grass" from Devotions.

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Aug 3

Sphinx kalmiae, the laurel sphinx, a moth of the family Sphingidae. At Torbay History House, Torbay, NL. www.inaturalist.org/observations... @ncccnc.bsky.social #NCCBioBlitz

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Nov 22

My #FridayReads is Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler — #audiobook on @libbyapp.bsky.social thanks to NL Public Libraries. #NonfictionNovember #AmReading #AmListening #BookSky

Lara Maynard 🫐@laralou· Nov 22

#LettterboxdFriday - What are your #LastFourWatched? Heretic Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Nothing Compares Bikeriders