Tim Walker

@twalk.bsky.social

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Science- & nature-loving writer, dad, & fitness buff in ATX. ❤️‍🔥 of a hype man. Happily partnered. Intersectional feminist & LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. ⚽️. (he/him) Get into using alt text. Get WAY into it. Av: bearded middle-aged guy Banner: wall map of world weather

A television showing Mexico 1 - England 3 in the 63rd minute.
A big plate of deluxe nachos on a white table.
Front cover of a hardback book with a yellow cover that reads UNLOCKING JUSTICE THE POWER OF DATA TO CONFRONT INEQUITY AND CREATE CHANGE CHAD M. TOPAZ
On a wooden tabletop, a set of cream-colored letter cubes are arranged crossword-style to spell out PROLIX, ROOD, and RISK. Part of a white ceramic mug appears in the background.
A couple of kettlebells, a couple of sandbags, and a dumbbell on a carpet.
On an iron patio table, three books (two Gabriel García Márquez paperbacks on top of the collected poems of Seamus Heaney), a Field Notes notebook with a couple of pens, and a mug of tea.
Books arrayed on a wooden breakfast table: INNOCENT ERÉNDIRA AND OTHER STORIES by Gabriel García Márquez, CHIHULY OVER VENICE, and THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson. There’s also a big white mug of tea sitting on a coaster, and hints of other books, coasters, a bottle of lotion, newspapers, etc. around the edges of the picture.
Paperback copies of POEMS 1962–2012 by Louise Glück and ALMANAC OF THE DEAD by Leslie Marmon Silko.
“Stop Making Sense: The extreme performance art of Tehching Hsieh,” by Jillian Steinhauer in the April 2026 issue of The Nation.
The beginnings of putting together a new jigsaw puzzle: the pieces have been poured into a big pile on one corner of a parquetry gaming table. Smaller piles of edge pieces etc. have started to be made at the other corners of the table.
A view of the Ski Shores dock. There are motorboats parked in a couple of the slips.
Four books: GATHERING MOSS, Robin Wall Kimmerer MILES AND MILES OF TEXAS, Henry Horenstein JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE, Kristin Kobes Du Mez INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE, Ada Palmer
Exterior of Bird’s Bookstore in the Preston Royal shopping center in Dallas. Plain white wall with the company logo (complete with a black bird perched on the “B” of “Bookstore”) over a deeply recessed porch with a couple of cafe tables and a few chairs.
A couple of Field Notes notebooks and a couple of thick paperbacks (Gerald Martin’s biography of Gabriel García Márquez, Audre Lorde’s collected poems) sit in front of a coffee mug and insulated carafe.
On a dark wooden breakfast table, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH from The Yale Shakespeare (a small clothbound book printed in 1954) lies open to its title page. It sits on top of a paperback copy of Eugenio Montale’s THE STORM & OTHER POEMS. Next to them is a brown coffee mug on a woven coaster.
Two books by Donald Hall: 1. FATHERS PLAYING CATCH WITH SONS: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) 2. LIFE WORK
Austin FC and DC United players clustered near the DC goal for an Austin corner kick. We camped out there for a while (more throw-ins etc.) but nothing came of it.
The interior of Q2 Stadium in Austin, with the teams lined up on the pitch for the national anthem.
Fabio Silva’s career card from the FotMob app, showing that since the 2019/20 season, he has played for Porto (Portugal), Wolverhampton (England), Anderlecht (Belgium), PSV (Netherlands), Rangers (Scotland), Las Palmas (Spain), and Dortmund (Germany).
A paperback edition of THE ART OF ASKING YOUR BOSS FOR A RAISE, by Georges Perec.
A freshly made sandwich on a white plate. It’s sitting on the corner of a desk with some papers, and part of a bookcase is visible in the background. The sandwich has lots of greens, some sharp white cheddar cheese, and pickles.
Toni Morrison saying “It's when you skip responsibility, when you use a substitute emotion like guilt, which is of no use to anyone.”
A black cowbell in a museum case.
A patterned bowl full of white bean soup.
A big Dutch oven with the raw ingredients of a mirepoix (onion, carrot, celery, plus garlic) in it.
A hardback book, MOSES AND THE DOCTOR, by Luke Epplin. There are also player cards for Julius Erving and Moses Malone in the same style as the book cover.
A black coffee mug sitting on a desk. It has a colorful drawing of a person sitting in the lotus position. Above the drawing is the phrase “Let that shit go.”
Two books laid out on striped upholstery: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AUDRE LORDE and Joseph Brodsky’s TO URANIA.
A lovely large notebook with a William Morris botanical pattern on the cover.
A really old mini dachshund, black with a white muzzle.
A paperback copy of COYOTE RUN by Lilith Saintcrow. There’s a big fight scene on the cover.
Several trees of different types growing on the Wabash College campus. A brick walkway is in the foreground.
A printed catalog that reads: THE GREAT CHICAGO BOOK SALE save up to 90% prices as low as $4.99 inside! Scan to shop the books in this catalog plus hundreds more
Brandi Carlile and Sister Strings perform “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX.
Mountain Gazette no. 204
A small stack of books on a bedspread. On top is an old paperback of ROCANNON’S WORLD by Ursula Le Guin; under it is the most recent issue of THE PARIS REVIEW.
A British curler shoots in an Olympic match against Estonia.
Burnt-orange Puma sneakers sitting on a wooden table.
Stacked on a table in a living room, five slim books: LEAF STORM; INNOCENT ERÉNDIRA; CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD; MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES; and UNTIL AUGUST.
Me, wearing a heavy-gauge gray cotton cardigan.
The view out the front door into our suburban neighborhood — a thin coating of snow on everything.
Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
A mug of coffee on a wooden table. The mug has a colored drawing of a Ralph Lauren teddy bear dapperly dressed as an alpinist.
A giant book: The Poems of Seamus Heaney.
A plate of gingerbread cookies — a mix of gingerbread men and snowflakes.
A plate of the rectangular shortbread cookies described in the skeet — recipe via the NYT Cooking gift link.
Looking east along Town Lake in downtown Austin from the 55th floor of The Austonian. There are several high-rise buildings on the north side of the water.
Two issues of The New Yorker magazine stacked on a table with various other items: coffee mug, notebook, pen, stack of newspapers, etc. The magazine on top is open to its table of contents, which has been marked up at different times with red permanent marker and ordinary black ink.
A big TV showing ABC’s 🏈 broadcast: Texas A&M 0 - Texas 3.
Thanksgiving dishes arrayed on the stove for serving: sweet potato casserole, potato gratin casserole, green beans. Two people are serving themselves.
When the article found its way into The New Yorker — after Bourdain's mother suggested to a New York Times colleague, Esther Fein, that Fein's husband, David Remnick, the magazine's new editor, might want to take a look — "it transformed my life within two days," he said.
The cover of The New Yorker issue of November 17, 2025, which is a colored drawing of a smiling Zohran Mamdani riding in a crowded subway car filled with a diverse mix of people (plus a little dog riding in its owner’s bag). There are also a couple of pigeons perching on the title of the magazine.
The cover of The New Yorker issue of April 15, 2024: in this drawing, Peter de Seve has positioned a number of wittily drawn birds of different species on or near a network of flowering vines that crisscrosses the entire space.
Four books arrayed against a striped cloth backdrop: 1. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2. MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl 3. THE CREATIVE ACT by Rick Rubin 4. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon
A close-up photograph of a woman handling a VERY well-groomed Pomeranian at a dog show.
The cover of The New Yorker issue of June 16, 2025. It’s a witty drawing of a white cat sitting on a table, its eyes narrowed as it looks squarely at the viewer. The cat is coolly tipping a glass of red wine onto the exquisite white rug on the floor.
Autumnal forest, lots of colors, with a stream in the foreground.
No wonder we need aliens. No wonder we're so good at creating aliens. No wonder we so often project alienness onto one another. This last of course has been the worst of our problems the human alien from another culture, country, gender, race, eth-nicity. This is the tangible alien who can be hurt or killed. There is a vast and terrible sibling rivalry going within the human family as we satisfy our desires for territory, dominance, and exclusivity. How strange: In our ongoing eagerness to create aliens, we express our need for them, and we express our deep fear of being alone in a universe that cares no more for us than it does for stones or suns or any other fragments of itself. And yet we are unable to get along with those aliens who are closest to us, those aliens who are of course ourselves.
The cover of the novel EDINBURGH, by Alexander Chee.
A close-up of two paper bowls, one containing vanilla ice cream sandwiched between chocolate-chip cookies from Tiff’s Treats, the other with vanilla ice cream from Gati and Oreo crumbles on top of a brownie.