New blog post up, Minnesota on my Mind:
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Meeting Madame Binh (Hanoi, Vietnam. July 2, 2002; Reprinting this for April 30, 2025, the fiftieth anniversary of reunification)

April 30, a historic day.

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For the first time in five decades, our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard has put his feet down in so-called North Dakota, the ancestral lands of his Anishinaabe and Dakota Ancestors.

Worth reposting:
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Oh yes. Gilda Radner used to be an Emily Litella bit about "protecting the lives of the unconceived!" Comedy becomes reality.

Repression of dissent in America It’s terrible now; it’s about to get worse

Some thoughts on these times we are living in . .. .

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Still relevant

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Whoah! Brotherless Night and Covenant of Water were both excellent. I can read them because i'm retired; impresed that you fit it in with all you do. I have lots to recommend, here are two: Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, and A Day in the life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall.