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VNV Tuesday – 1000 Words 7/3/18

July 3, 2018 DoReMI 3

I’m taking the easy way out this week and letting political cartoons do the talking for me again. I have plenty of topics I want to write about, but they’re all research- and writing-heavy, and […]

TGIF!

June 29, 2018 Batch 8

Good morning meese! .Let’s all hope today is better than the last two days. In fact what we want to see and I think is going to happen sooner than later will be some one […]

VNV Tuesday – …Doomed to Repeat It (Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930) 6/26/18

June 26, 2018 DoReMI 2

If you’re like me, the Smoot-Hawley (sometimes called Hawley-Smoot) Tariff Act is a vague memory from high school history class and a less-vague memory from this scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Since tariffs have […]

TGIF!

June 22, 2018 Batch 8

Morning meese! What a completely demoralizing week…but we persist. DD(DumDonnie) thinks he can shock us into giving up…He’s got another thing coming..The dipshit works for us […]

VNV Tuesday – …Doomed to Repeat It (Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 ) 6/19/18

June 19, 2018 DoReMI 5

As usual, I present this post with the caveat that I am neither a scholar nor a specialist in this field; I’m merely providing an overview for those who wish to have a cursory explanation […]

TGIF!

June 15, 2018 Batch 6

Good morning meese! The IG report was what we expected it to be, conformation that James Comey used his position indiscriminately to cover his own ass. I’m hoping the report goes the way […]

VNV Tuesday – 147 Days Until Midterms; Time to Set Our Hope On Fire (A Call to Action) 6/12/18

June 12, 2018 DoReMI 1

Today’s inspiration came from this song by Vienna Teng about a nascent activist, as well as Rebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Darkness: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. So what is this “hope” of which I […]

TGIF!!!

June 8, 2018 Batch 4

Good morning meese! Everyone is going to start to realize something we came to realize even before the election. That Putin/Russia helped get Dotard elected to cause turmoil everywhere. It will give Putin lots […]

VNV Thursday – A Theatrical Interlude 6/7/18

June 7, 2018 DoReMI 2

I’ve loved theatre for most of my life. When I was in high school, I attended all the school plays, and with my humanities class was able to see William Devane in a production of […]

TGIF!

June 1, 2018 Batch 5

Morning meese… Another week without poop walks…Trump getting more deranged by the day…Imposing tariffs on our ex-allies which in turn is going to make prices of everything go up. […]

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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March 19, 2024 3

Today, March 19th, at 8:06pm Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

Yes, it WAS a Wonderful Life!

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February 28, 2024 9

Imbolc, 2006. L to R, Moira, Beryl, Jenny, and Yrs Truly Looking back, it strikes me as odd that my 33-year-friendship with Beryl began when I met her friend Jenny, rather than with Beryl [...]

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Spring is in the air!

February 1, 2024 3

At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]

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Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2023 5

The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

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Ghost Bark

October 29, 2023 8

(Excerpt from Rowena Wentworth’s journal) 16 October 2023 I heard it again this morning. It was a bark, just a single bark, but it woke me up from a night’s sleep. I [...]