“This is not nostalgia. It is something older and more necessary than that, something that has to do with being a creature with a body, with hands that evolved not to click but to grasp, to gesture, to leave a mark.”
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I ‘met’ you via the Web Style Guide all those years ago, and am so glad I did.
You may feel like . . . your “brain is currently fully broken” . . . but the wonderful truth is that you are a fully fledged human with deep awareness and heart-felt feelings coupled with a keen desire to write and a great gift of doing so.
Never give up.
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Inspired
Among the wondrous
wonders to behold is the
Imminent Lilac . . .
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From Francis Weller in his book The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief "Where there is sorrow, wrote Oscar Wilde, "there is holy ground." ... to enter the sacred ground of grief and encounter the ways it enables us to walk in this world with its attendant harsh realities of loss and death. We discover how sorrow shakes us and breaks us open to depths of soul we could not imagine. Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground. We are made real and tangible by the experience of sorrow, adding substance and weight to our world. We are stripped of excess and revealed as human in our times of grief. In a very real way grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings. In truth, without some familiarity with sorrow, we do not mature as men and women. It is the broken heart, the heart that knows sorrow that is also capable of genuine love."
“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”
Thank you for sharing your father with us in your writing, Sarah. Blessings to you and your family as you mourn his passing and celebrate his life.
My thoughts on animals in art.
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/art-and-th...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #art #painting #WildlifeArt
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller.
“People who might have an interest in what we did here include:
Fans of my writing over the years. There are some.”
I am one. Grateful for you & your work, your steady & informative writing, your inquisitive & studied outlook & your deep understanding of life and “The Impossible Press.”
Thank you
I can only imagine what it’s like to focus on, write about & chronicle the events of our world as @brucearthur.bsky.social does so poignantly & critically well
I do know how he reaches this human & countless others as he writes, reminding us how “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
“The Federal Court has categorically . . .confirmed that safe drinking water on reserve is a fundamental right rather than an act of charity. It should never have been necessary to bring this case.”
Twin rulings confirm Canada had obligations and clear the way for the cases to move ahead.
Grateful for @eryk.bsky.social’s studied, human POV & his steady, engaging work gathered at Cybernetic Forests, with deeply thoughtful articles like What Was ChatGPT? and vital contributions in symposiums like The Age of Noise
which makes known
#ImpactByTechnologies
on
#SocialCulturalEcosystems
People want to be with other people. A recent event showcased the wisdom of William H Whyte, and I ask: why don’t our public spaces follow his lead? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
I am sorry.
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Un/ill-informed politicians making damaging, disastrous decisions continue to bring hardship, grief to community.
Malcolm Gladwell in “What The Dog Saw” wrote about Million Dollar Murray and the *FACT* that it is *always less expensive to fund* services (like SCS) than not to fund.
And, maybe this, too.
Sky Turning Grey (For Elliott Smith)
Thank you for posting this.
“I believe in your capacities.
I believe in your commitment.
I believe in you.”
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THE LAST CLASS film, @imcivicaction.bsky.social
Inequality Media Civic Action’s first documentary, about @rbreich.bsky.social
Prof. Robert Reich’s final semester of teaching.
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“We have the data, we have the road maps and as this bill references, ** housing first ** is a proven policy to end chronic homelessness”
Housing First:
Evidence-based, best practice centred on Dr. Sam Tsemberis’ Pathways to Housing, 1992
@katebueckert.bsky.social
youtu.be/pwdq2VWavtc
TY for sharing what you do here. They are gifts in an ever expanding tapestry.
Eventho I don’t know you personally I relate, am gifted by you here. I “met” Steve on an earlier platform, just like meeting Tami Simon, Francis Weller on other media, each of you lifting hearts and spirit as we travel.
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Happy #EarthDay from my corner of the Earth. This is a compilation of places and moments from all over #Manitoba, Canada. I put it together to show that we are so much more than 'flat' and 'boring'. We're beautiful and diverse and full of life, like everywhere else on this planet we call home. 🌿
From one of my favourite local tossers @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
who knows & loves Toronto like few others, a knowledgeable, considered plea that the “Loblaw owners’ $50M gift should be thought through by city”
@mayoroliviachow.ca
@cityoftoronto.bsky.social
@spacing.bsky.social
#OtherParksNeeds
Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight. Colored pencils on Canson paper, 9 x 11 in., 2024.
From On Being with Krista Tippett:
Foundations for Being Alive Now
“Four short offerings…”
Nourishing. Encouraging.
—Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time
—Living the Questions
—Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming "Critical Yeast"
—Calling and Wholeness
onbeing.org/starting-poi...
"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56
Photo of the book The Writing Life by Annie Dillard on a table top A favourite quote from the book: Later, before they left, Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong. Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you *write* that story?" I started to answer, when he continued, "Or did you type it?" — The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Later before they left Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong.
Brian said (admiringly, I thought),
"Did you write that story?"
I started to answer, when he continued,"Or did you type it?"
—The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Wonderful, Mary Grace!
I’ve been asking for inspiration and you are among the ones who showed up. Thank you :)
A bookmark to stay close to this usable map.
“Doppelganger is my attempt at a usable map of our moment in history—but to make it, I had to get lost a few times.”
Thank you, @naomiaklein.bsky.social
naomiklein.org/doppelganger/
To those who have friends, relatives in the California fire zone I have spoken with Canadian Safety Minister Bill Blair.
Under Section 273.6 National Defence Act Canada's military have been authorized to begin the airlift of CDN firefighters to help California residents.
Airlift commences today.
“Nothing will change until our anger gets powerful enough. But once you accept the truth of
loss, and the truth of who perpetrated and profited from
that loss, the anger comes rushing in, as fierce is the Santa
Ana winds.” @climatehuman.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
Ending homelessness is our most urgent crisis. I will continue to push the city and all levels of govt to do better.
The answer is HOUSING, with supports when needed. Period.
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/tros...
We need to go back to our roots. Knock doors. Talk to our neighbours. Meet in parks and community centres. Organize. Build community. I regret depending so heavily on platforms owned and run by people who do me and my community harm.
map of western Los Angles showing areas on fire
Oh man, LA. On the Cal Fire Map you can zoom right into streets in the Palisades and see where the massive fire is.
www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
