Yes, it’s a crummy picture. Blame the photographer (me) and the weather, but this is Emily Dickinson’s house in #Amherst#Massachusetts and Dickinson wrote her #poems behind that window at the upper left.
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
Once again, Houghton will celebrate Emily Dickinson’s birthday with a cake baked according to her own handwritten recipe found in our collections. Modern Books and Manuscripts Assistant Johnna Purchase talks about her experience making it—you can try it for yourself on December 8th. https://sites.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2023/11/17/baking-emily-dickinsons-black-cake/
It's great to see the manuscript for Dickinson's #cake#recipe, which looks so much like the manuscripts for her #poems.
And in case you're wondering, I once had lunch with the late #poet Richard Eberhart who recounted talking to an elderly man from Amherst who recounted that when he was a tyke Dickinson would bake him #cookies and lower them to him through her upstairs window.
This Halloween Season, the staff and students of Miskatonic University have put together a wonderful weird Haunted House Art Installation. Some folks are dying to visit, others can not get enough of the interactive display, while others are having trouble pulling themselves from the paranormal dark arts installation.