Hair is gray, but not yet retired. Currently working two jobs - Love both of them. Native of New York by Ontario's shore, with Canadian childhood memories. Lifelong Democrat, moving ever further left as the years pass. Have a half-dozen double-stacked bookcases of secondhand books, and still keep my public library card busy. Honorary Gramma to a cute kiddo. Dog lover and recorder of audiobooks for LibriVox.
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Veggies. Needs more. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow The mighty bullfrog npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Fern, the tame house plant, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow I walked right past it, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Earth and sky balance, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Today's book recommendation for Women's History Month is "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years" by Elizabeth Barber (1994). npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow @nprofile…kkxq Thank you for encouraging us! I've been feeling so ineffectual. I'm working two jobs, then doing a school pickup and babysitting. So I can't go out to protests, or take any other similar action. All I can do is just writing and phoning representatives who don't respond. I feel like I'm useless. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Full moon, just risen, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Come out of your shell. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Crowds of protesters turned out in the snow at Sugarbush ski resort in Vermont, where they succeeded in driving away Vance from his intended ski fun. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow What is mud good for? npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Our local public library sent out this interesting announcement today: npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Neighbor. Colleague. Mere npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Sunrise drive to work. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Act of devotion. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow @nprofile…wuyc I'm a New Yorker who has lovely ties to Canada. Childhood memories there. A sister who lived there as an adult. Love and respect for so much of what is Canadian. What this regime of facists has done to Canada hurts my heart. I feel like I just watched a despicable family member stab a dearly loved friend and neighbor in the back, and the shame falls on my whole family. I can't fault Canadians for wanting noting to do with any of us. Having some Canadians, like you, understand that you have some friends yet here in this awful place brings me to tears at your kindness after being treated so badly. Thank you. Please go on defying Trump. Every setback you inflict on him helps us in our own resistance. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow One year ago today, my partner Brian died. He was one of that week's covid statistics. According to the weekly tracking of covid deaths, 1,515 Americans died in the same week as Brian. [email protected] /111982182949584596 npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Between cement slabs, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Today's book recommendation for Black History Month is "The Exiles of Florida" by Joshua Giddings. (1858) npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow @nprofile…xzjz I couldn't attend any local protests in person, because I was confined to babysitting all day long. (Munchkin home with ear infection). But I wanted to participate, so I wrote to a bunch of elected officials to get my voice in amongst the others. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow In night's thick darkness, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow @nprofile…fpaa npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow Daylight's leftovers, npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow "Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" by Eyal Press is a book I first read a dozen years ago. I've been thinking about it lately, because its lessons seem more relevant than ever in our present situation. npub18d7dkj5jvk0z96dza7k3ddpmm4ydcfj580muywkrurxsstg2dc8syjc47s Common Sparrow When the lights go out,
