Mary Clark

@MaryClark
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Author, Blogger, Photographer #democracy #socialjustice #music #nature #poetry #books
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Now ReadingThe Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

In case anyone is interested in my 90 second long #music video, here you go:

https://youtu.be/OMpGUY7b55M

Feedback appreciated but be gentle. It's my first time 🥺

On A Boat

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#CBC #Radio Q with Tom Power Interviews Eddie Vedder

After the life threatening skin #disease Epidermolysis Bullosa affected a family friend, #PearlJam frontman Eddie Vedder and his wife Jill founded an organization to help find a cure. Their journey is documented in a new concert film called
Matter of Time which is now #streaming on #Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvKgMXm2uI
#music #art #health #Activism

How a fatal skin disease is fueling Eddie Vedder’s fight

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Silk Route Adventure: On Horseback in the Heart of Asia #bookreview Claire is a woman traveling from Mongolia through the “Stans,” or Steppes, camping in remote areas, negotiating for horses and stables, food and shelter. The time is just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Central Asia, she writes, is trying to rediscover its identity. Oh, and this girl could drink down most of the men she met. Fascinating read with #history woven into the narrative. https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Route-Adventure-Horseback-Heart-ebook/dp/B085W7X5HY/
Amazon.com: Silk Route Adventure: On Horseback in the Heart of Asia eBook : Burges Watson, Claire: Kindle Store

Amazon.com: Silk Route Adventure: On Horseback in the Heart of Asia eBook : Burges Watson, Claire: Kindle Store

ARC Review: Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer

I very rarely read biographies, preferring to learn about people through their own words. I wondered why Blume didn’t write her own story, but I learned that she prefers not to write nonfiction, an…

The Book Stop

GRACEFUL, HEART-WRENCHING NOVEL centers on an Istanbul woman whose life spans luxury in the Ottoman aristocracy to poverty in modern Turkey. Stunning, nuanced characterizations shine against a backdrop of history and a vividly evoked city. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leylas-house-zulfu-livaneli/1147316776?ean=9781635422061

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#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Turkey #Turkiye

"In the Absence of Modernism"

Following the removal of the early-60s International Style post office in NW #PDX, what remains behind it are the same structures that were present for the past 110+ years, the Broadway Bridge and the Albers Brothers Milling Company Building. In another 5 years, this view will be once again obscured with new structures.

2026.04.13

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The US National Academies of Sciences refused to remove a climate change chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite pressure from Republican attorneys general.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

Ars Technica