Linda Perlman Fields

@lperlmanfields.bsky.social

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Writer, poet, journalist, Peabody winner, book lover; more at https://www.LindaPerlmanFields.com

A pileated woodpecker on an oak tree in a wintery landscape
Author Adriana Trigiani onstage with Carol Fitzgerald at the annual Readers & Writers Festival in Milford, Pennsylvania
Two clumps of purple irises blooming in a small garden with some annuals; northeast Pennsylvania
Two cats in conversation. A larger white one asks the smaller orange one “are you a pure bred like me?” The answer: “Yes. My mother was a cat and my father was a cat. I’m therefore pure cat.”
Hummingbird perches over a trumpet flower with a bee inside
One person (on social media) peers through a hole in the wall and thinks it’s raining while the scientist looks over the wall to see a pipe attached to a water tank burst and is sending a stream of water down behind the wall
On a public bench, two mothers sit with their kids. First mom, holding cell phone as is her child, looks at second mom and child, both reading books and asks how do you get your child to read books?
Agent returns manuscript to writer and tells her “It’s wonderful. Wonderful’s been done.”
A ruby-throated hummingbird getting nectar from a trumpet flower
Ruby throated hummingbird at a trumpet flower
A quote from Robert Heinlein: When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read; This you may not see; This you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives