Steve Peterson

@StevePeterson@mstdn.social
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Former middle school science teacher and local union prez. Part-time poet. Dog lover. Very amateur iPhone photographer. Hiker. Canoeist. Reader. Oak woodland restorer. Driftless Area, NE Iowa, US. Born at 317.07 ppm.

Header:
View of a shallow valley in the fall.
Profile pic:
Me asking questions about Trump's corruption at a local town hall.

#SilentSunday
#SmallPoems
#MastoPrompt
#DogsOfMastodon
#History
#Science
#DailyWalk
#RuralLife
#MobilePhotography
#Monochrome
#DailyHaikuPrompt

I wrote about the birthday boy and his tank parade, and the great weakness inherent in fascist shows of power.

And about how the people of the country *are* the country.

As a bonus tie-in, my answer to the standard terf question "what is a woman."

https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/

Shows of Weakness

They've got the tanks. We've got the power.

The Reframe

Good to see this many people out on a hot, muggy day in rural Iowa for a #NoKings protest.

Courage and hope in numbers.

https://youtu.be/Fqj0TWJt-1M

No Kings Protest in Decorah, IA

YouTube
I really love listening to books as I help my neighbor weed his 13,000 heads of garlic!

Current #books #reading
The Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam
Three feathers, Alan Lightman
How the earth turned green, Joseph Armstrong

Recent
The dog stars, Peter Heller

The Wind Knows my name, Isabel Allende

Stoneyard Devotional, Charlotte Wood

Water for elephants, Sara Gruen

The narrow road to the deep north, Richard Flanagan

Golden Alexander

fast growing bamboo

tallest of the tall grasses

first to reach the sun

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#sun
#nature
#bamboo
#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt
(tall grass)

nodding seed heads
mark puppy's pounce
in tall grass

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - tall grass

busy man

flies hither and yon

jet lag blues

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#blues
#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt
(flies)

I don't think I've posted this picture. Felt right for the first #FensterFrieitag of #Pride #RVA