Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library
2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists
3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg
Attending Library Legislative Day at the Vermont State House tomorrow for the first time. Any advice for meeting with legislators? #skybrarian #schoollibrarian #NationalLibraryWeek
Enjoy this WELL DESERVED honor!
Spring time has me celebrating everything out of doors. So my reading includes Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive on audiobook and sampling my way through Mary Oliver's Devotions
I really enjoyed this fresh take on the time travel trope. Hoping it is working for you.
Still one of my favorites.
“He has eaten the dark hours … riding out under storm clouds, against the world’s pride and unkindness with both unassailable sweetness, and consoling word.”
- Mary Oliver
This 👇
So glad it worked for you!!
That’s new to me. Thanks for the recommendation! It’s currently available on Libby. 🙌
I am on the job market. After a year in public schools I am being forced out of my district. So if anyone has a librarian or training specialist role out there, let me know.
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
- Mary Oliver
This is a dance off. If you see it repost a dance.
Since I am currently reading an arc for Shannon Chakraborty's The Tapestry of Fate, you had me at diverse pirate crews. Thanks for the rec!
100% agree - the audiobook was pure perfection!
This book recently taught me the term technofeudalism. Now that I know that I understand so much more of what's happening. And I'm even more anxious. Especially since I was reading this when I heard about Sam Altman's plan for "intelligence to be a utility we pay for via AI".
In print
- Toni Morrison's Language as Liberation: reflections on the
american canon
audiobook
- Robert MacFarlane's Is a River Alive?
There’s a momma Robin who has nested underneath my deck for the last few years. Discovering she has returned this spring soothes and rejuvenates something in my heart. 🪺
Don't forget, April 16th is National Librarian Day in the U.S.
If I were still working, I would appreciate gifts of chocolate. Maybe other librarians would too.
guys, this is how you lose the time war
Sunrise over mountains and a lake.
Some mornings when you wake at 5h it’s nice just to think.
This morning I thought about my late father telling me, when I was young and confused, that he was investing in me.
To be believed in.
Feel like that.
And here comes the Sun 💛
#5amwritersclub #booksky
Assuming it is too far, a really good standard thriller is Vera Kurian’s Never Saw Me Coming.
Fantasy mystery too far out? I do love the quirky Sherlockian duo of Ana and Din in Tainted Cup and the follow up Drop of Corruption.
I really enjoyed the original collection. Can’t wait to dive in to the newest one.
"A culture where dignity is not negotiable. Draw the line. Someone in that room is waiting to see if you will. And they will remember it for the rest of their working life."
Today's reminder that everything matters both what we do and what we choose not to do.
Glad you made it through. It’s rough in these menopausal trenches!
It’s not by accident
It’s by Design 🤷🏽♀️
#BlackHistory365
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Every member of Congress should be asked the following:
If Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales should be forced out of office because of credible allegations of sexual misconduct, shouldn't Congress also remove Donald Trump as he has already been found liable by a jury for sexual assault?
what is your favorite book trope that you would never want to happen to you in real life?
The one where a stable and just society comes under sway of a viciously evil autocratic regime led by a narcissistic authoritarian and everyone decent has to join the plucky rebels.